2007 in Review

I am a few days behind on my reflections of 2007. Oh well. Here are some highlights of our year.
January
We welcomed in the new year with a beautiful 10 month old.

We spent a weekend in California with Christy's family for a late Christmas and baby shower.

Katherine experienced her first snow (a very small one, but snow nonetheless!)

February

My brother and his wife, Jaime, had their first baby, Sophia Marie on February 16th. Isn't she a beauty?

Katherine celebrated her first birthday on February 22nd.

March

Katherine and I went to meet Sophia for the first time. She was (and still is) adorable.

April
We went to the zoo, arboretum, the lake and lots of play dates. We also celebrated Easter with a few egg hunts. Katherine also really learned to walk.

May

May was filled with more fun with friends, including our first trip to the sprayground.

Our entire family was together for a few days when Pops had heart surgery. We are so thankful that they caught the problem and were able to fix it. He recovered quickly and it back to normal.

June
More time at the zoo, arboretum and playing with friends. Will, Jaime and Sophia came in for a weekend visit as well.

While Sam was in a wedding in Mexico, Christy and Katherine went to Pittsburgh to visit one of Christy's close childhood friends, Alison, and her family.

July

Our family had a wonderful time at our church's family camp in Colorado. It was a great week away from the hustle and bustle of home, a time to relax and reconnect.

Christy also had a mini-reunion with some of her close friends and sorority sisters. Ashley was in town from Colorado and we met up with Sandra and Diana for dinner. Sam stayed home and babysat the kids.

August

By far the biggest event in August was moving to Oslo, Norway for 14 weeks. If you have been a reader of this blog for any amount of time you have already heard more about that trip than you ever cared to know. It was a great experience for our family.

September

We celebrated Christy's birthday in the Telemark region of Norway on a weekend trip. Then Christy's parents, Nana and Pops came for 10 days. While together, we all went to Copenhagen Denmark for a weekend and for a weekend trip to the fjords of Norway.

October

We continued life as usual in Oslo. It started getting colder. We took a weekend trip to Helsinki, Finland where it was really cold.

November

We took a final trip to Stockholm, Sweden. Christy's close friend Anita returned with us for a visit in Oslo.

We spent a lot of time getting ready to move back and spending time with the friends that we made while in Norway. All of us will miss our special friends.
Right before we returned home, we found out that we were pregnant with baby #2, Squeak, due in late July. We are so excited.
A week after returning home, it was time to celebrate Thanksgiving. We went to Sam's parents for a quick visit.
Then Christy's family got together. Katherine and Sophia are the same size (though a year apart) so they had a lot of fun playing together this trip.

December

This year we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary. Time sure flies. We had a great celebration with a night away and a fancy dinner.

We spent December the way most Americans do, celebrating Christmas festivities. This year we tried to make Jesus the focus of Christmas since we are teaching Katherine what it is all about. I think we did a pretty good job but can do even better next year.

We look forward to seeing what God has in store for us in 2008. We know it will be a big year with a job change for Sam and a new baby on the way. It is exciting.