We spent a ton of time with our favorite people while we lived in Oklahoma:
Graham's 1st birthday!
We went to many Driller's games with family to enjoy the cool Oklahoma evenings. By cool I mean only 95 degrees.
We got to go to an Elks game in Arkansas!
We spent great time at Grand Lake with my family for a few days.
My brother, Joel, got to come for the lake trip. It's always a blessing to see him. But hey, now I live a lot closer to him so hopefully I'll get to go see where he lives for once!
Us at the botanical gardens in OKC.
We spent our 2nd Anniversary in Oklahoma City. We had such a fun trip. The Thunder were in the NBA finals so there was a fun buzz around town and we got to watch a game at BJ's with a ton of fans. We also went to the OKC bombing memorials and museum which was a moving experience. I'm glad we finally did this as we've both lived in Oklahoma for a long time, but had never gone there.
We spent Easter with our families at our church in Owasso.
I accomplished something I never thought I'd do. I ran a 10k race with my sister Elizabeth, while Lydia ran a half marathon at the same time. I loved this experience and hope to run another race sometime soon!
Tyler and I ran the Mission 5k with our church in Owasso. This was a fun thing to do because 2011's Mission 5k was our first race ever and it was awesome to run 2012's race after working hard to achieve some of our weight loss goals!
Tyler was ordained in August and we were sent out by our families and churches.
We loaded everything from our storage unit into a truck to make the trek out to Cali!
We had a great 4 day trip out to Cali with some fun stops along the way. We took our time and it was a super fun road trip.
We moved to Tracy, California! 1,693 miles from my parents home where we lived.
We began renting a cute house and finally got to unpack all the stuff I'd been missing for the last year!
We explored Silicon Valley, and accomplished a dream of Tyler's to go to the Apple Headquarters.
We accomplished a dream of mine to go to a Stanford volleyball game. And we got a huge surprise when they brought out Kerri Walsh-Jennings to retire her jersey. Huge dream come true for me!
We finally got to celebrate Christmas in our new home.
We did a lot of exploring San Francisco and have enjoyed every second of the awesome location we live in!
We got to spend a great week with our families for Christmas! It was so refreshing to go home and share our lives with our families for awhile.
Not to mention we got to go to a great OSU basketball game!
What a great blessing 2012 was! We went through some challenges as we continued to wait on God's plan for our lives. We had great friends and family in Oklahoma that helped us move forward in our lives. I can't say enough about the faithfulness of God. I am so excited as we turn the page in to 2013 that I don't have to wonder when God is going to provide the right church to join. But I am totally excited to see what he brings us this year! If you would have told me as I wrote my 2011 blog last year that this year I'd be writing from Tracy, CA I never, ever would have believed you. It's a blessing to be here and I'm thrilled to see what God does with us in Tracy this year!
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