Celebrations:
We bought our first house! According to the papers we
bought it officially on December 16, 2011, but…. we didn’t actually move in
until January 2012, so we will count it as a celebration for 2012! J
After many, many months of scans, MRIs, blood work,
visiting multiple endocrinologists and surgeons across northern California,
Stephanie finally received confirmation of no Thyroid Cancer! Every six months
for the rest of life she will have to get scanned and have bloodwork done,
and will have to take medicine every day, but is 100% healthy. There’s nothing
quite like a health scare to make you realize how truly fragile and precious life
is – we are so incredibly thankful for the miracle worked on our lives and pray
for the health of all our friends and family going into 2013!
Vacations:
We made frequent trips to all the great areas within
driving distance of our home – Napa Valley, San Francisco, and Tahoe. We
snowshoed, camped, and went wine tasting – we are so incredibly blessed to live
in this area!
We enjoyed a weekend getaway to Monterey, CA in April with just us two.
We took a week off over Memorial Day and headed to San
Diego where we spent a week with the Lohmeier side of our family in a beach
house on Pacific Beach – lots of fun and so relaxing going to sleep with the
sound of the waves every night!
For 4th of July, we traveled to Bickleton, WA
to see the Mains side of our family and so that Dee could drive his beloved car
home now that we have a garage for it! We had a lot of fun in Bickleton
visiting with family.
In December we traveled to Oahu, Hawaii with the Lohmeier
side of our family where we stayed for a week in a beach house in Lanikai. We
had so much fun biking, kayaking, hiking, and enjoying all the beauty Hawaii
has to offer. It was a vacation we will never forget!
Anniversaries:
We celebrated our two year anniversary – oh how time
flies! These have been the absolute best two years of our lives and we thank
God every day that we found each other!
Favorite Moments:
Getting a clean bill of health!
All our travels with our family and the incredible
memories made with those we love most!
Finishing unpacking our house and enjoying having a place
entirely our own
Thoughts on 2013:
We know 2013 will be a blessed year, and we are so
incredibly excited for it to begin. We haven’t yet decided what
vacations we will plan, but we’re having fun throwing out ideas – Europe is top
on our list. And we plan to expand our family with a puppy!
We wish all of our family and friends a very blessed and
wonderful 2013. Love you all!
Love,
Steph & Dee
