Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (or happy spring, depending on when you get around to reading this)! We hope that 2013 has been a blessed year for you - we can definitely say that we have been graced with yet another year of life for which we are thankful.
Family happenings:
- Chris turned 30 in February!
- In March, Parker received fabulous news and was taken off of his prophylactic antibiotics that he had been taking since birth!
- Parker and Reagan turned 2 in April and had a Circus-themed party at the park
(and those circus decorations were later used for their toddler room)
- Over the summer, P & R moved into big kid beds. And we all survived. (it was a close call ...)
- Mallory turned 30 in July! (Yes, Chris will always be older than me!)
- P & R started school in August, and they are learning some amazing things
- In September and October, Mallory forgot she had a blog and posted next to nothing. So, here are some pictures from the fall to catch you up:
Family outing to Kinsey Family Farm
Helping daddy carve the pumpkin
Attempting to break into our house with glowsticks ...
Pebbles & Bamm Bamm going trick-or-treating!
Halloween in our neighborhood is way too much fun!
So that brings us to November, right? I can't remember much of November, either ... which reminds me that I made a list of things that I never want to forget about my children. Oh, and we had a great (and chilly!) Thanksgiving here in Atlanta with Chris' family!
My company, Metro Music Therapy, has had a wonderful year with 6 music therapists on staff. We are working with new facilities and clients every month, and we are still loving the fact that we get to bring music therapy to the city of Atlanta every day. I was honored to be a presenter and a panelist at the National Conference of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) in Jacksonville, FL, this year - definitely one of the highlights of my music therapy career thus far!
Chris is still working for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and just finished his 4th semester of graduate school with the Georgia State Executive MBA Program. He only has 2 semesters to go until graduation! We were all feeling the "end of the semester crunch" over the past few weeks as he was gone from home a lot to study, finish projects and take his exams, but he now has a lengthy break until the next semester starts up again in mid-January (cue the Hallelujah Chorus)!
Chris and I just celebrated our nine year wedding anniversary on December 17th (where has the time gone?!). We have had a lot happen in the past nine years and we are so grateful for what we have together.
Here in the Even household, we are all getting in to the Christmas spirit, we are singing Jingle Bells ad nauseam, and we are all ready to celebrate the birth of our Jesus! We pray you have a Merry Christmas with your family and friends. We look forward to receiving your cards so we can see what you are up to, as well!
With Love,
Christopher, Mallory, Parker, Reagan, & Moses (yes, he still loves us enough to stick around, see?)
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