2012 in Summary:
January was a quiet month for us. After spending an awesome week with the Rices at Smith Mountain Lake, we spent New years sleeping and relaxing together. We celebrated Chris' 25th birthday on the 14th. The last weekend in January we drove to Virginia to see Peter and Betsy, Sam and Marina for Peter's 30th birthday.
February and March were uneventful as we enjoyed a very mild North Carolina winter. We both helped with the father daughter dance at church, we both traveled for work and spent time together. I can't really remember much about February and March so that is never a good sign.
April on the other hand I remember very well. In mid-April we hoped the pond and went to England for a week. My dear friend Katy from Costa Rica married her sweetheart, Dan so we went their wedding and while we were there enjoyed a reunion with friends from CR that now live around the world., toured London and had an awesome vacation.
May welcomed in our busy season for 2012. Kristen spent the first weekend in Chicago celebrating Karen's graduation and at the National Restaurant Association Show while Chris was in South Carolina for a wedding. The second weekend mom and dad Rice were in town for their first trip to Greensboro since our wedding and we enjoyed showing them around. According to the calendar there was a third weekend in May and I think we slept and recuperated. The last weekend of the month we went to Figure 8 with the Johnson's. We fished, walked on the beach and had a wonderful time with family.
June started with the Beautiful Life Conference at church and a baby shower for a dear friend here. We celebrated our 3rd anniversary on the 6th. As we do every year we talked and reflected on the highs of the last year of marriage and talked about goals for the next year. During these conversations, we felt God calling us to start praying about Chris' job. We were not sure what He had in store but we were praying for wisdom and direction on the next step.
In July God answered our prayers in a big way for Chris' job (more on this to come) and we began the process of looking at houses to buy. We finally knew that God has us in Greensboro long term and we could settle down and buy a house. For the rest of July and August we spent our weekends and days searching for houses on Listing-book and looking at houses. The house search was a process that took all fall and again proved God's faithfulness in providing the right house at the right time.
In September we went on our anniversary trip to Charlotte, NC. We went specifically to Charlotte to visit the National White Water Rafting Center. We had been talking about this trip for a while and were excited to go rafting and enjoy all the attractions. It was awesome. We got to the center early and spent all day there. We rafted, went on a high ropes course, rock climbed, zip lined and did an obstacle course. We also went out for a nice dinner and got to see some friends from college.
Well I think the rest of 2012 will need to be on the next post. Hopefully later this week! :)
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