Oh. My.

Was my last entry really November of LAST year??

I regret letting this go. I regret not capturing the memories of our life in this past year. Mostly because this past year was one of MANY struggles and MANY huge changes!

In April of 2014, we started applying for a new job for Chris. His work life had sucked the life out of our home life and needed to change. For some time we had felt God preparing us for something. We just never knew what that was. God led us down a tough path of choosing obedience and seeking a life totally outside of our comfort zone.

Chris has a new job now. God moved us from Columbus to Troy, OH, selling our house in 6 days!! This is truly of God, as most houses in our neighborhood were taking months and months to sell. We packed up, moved to Troy and began a journey that we are still not sure of!

Emma, now 4 1/2 by the way!, has adjusted wonderfully. We are now within 20 minutes of all of our Risheill family and an hour closer to my Michigan family. Our neighbors are wonderful and the 3 houses surrounding ours have children Emma's age. She has already become good friends with all of them.

We have also begun the journey of homeschooling, officially. We are involved in a Classical Conversations home-school co-op and have made many friends through this opportunity. It is one day a week that we are able to spend with other kids her age. Emma loves school and loves to learn. Just this month she has learned to read! I am still doing a lot of praying over being a home-school family, but for now it is where we are at.

We have a new niece!!  Willow Risheill was born August 27th and she is super cute! Blue eyes and blond hair just like Emma! However, Emma was born with black hair, which later turned blond and Willow was born with blond hair .. and lots of it! :)  We were also blessed to be asked to be her caregivers once her Mommy goes back to work in two weeks. So, we will have a much busier schedule and a new addition to our daily life here soon. I am pretty excited about it! I miss having a baby around, so this will be fun for me and Emma is beyond excited to help me "take care" of baby Willow :)

My sister is now a wife, as of August 2, 2014!  I was privileged to be a part of her wedding, which was beautiful!, and am happy for this new chapter in her life. Her wedding led to her living in NC and although I do miss having her so close, I am happy to see her so happy!

I look forward to blogging more frequently and trying to keep a record of our ever changing life!