Our family started 2011 living in a foster home. Living with us was a 17 year old teenage girl. WOW! I do not look forward to those years with my girls. We welcomed into the home several kids whose story would absolutely break your heart. We welcomed Gabriel at the end of February. We immediately fell in love with him. It was a MAJOR adjustment to have a baby in the house again. As we started 2011 we thought that we were suppose to Foster little did we know what we were about to embark on. In April a great group of people form our church Golden Acres planted a church in Fort Mitchell. We did this with no seminary education. It was a group of several couples that put our heads together and we DID church the way we thought would work best for the environment. We launched the church on Easter Sunday. We had no idea how many we would have that Sunday but we were blown away by the great response. Months of hard work had paid off. We are continuing this effort every Sunday. We have met some really great people in the Fort Mitchell area and we are looking forward to what is to come. In May we said goodbye to the teenage foster child that had lived with us for 6 months. At this point we decided for the sake of our children and our sanity, that we needed to move back into our house that did not sale and focus on our family and the church. We moved home in June and we took little Gabriel with us. We enjoyed traveling this summer to the beach and our time back at home. We were playing softball and even had a travel team that traveled every Saturday and played ball. The girls enjoyed this while it lasted. We started school in August and the girls are now in 1st and 4th grade. We have been busy with school projects this year. In November we said goodbye to Gabriel, it was really tough on our family. We look at it now as not having him leave us but adding to our family. The wonderful couple that he is with, we consider family. We enjoyed Christmas and New Years with family and friends. We look forward to what 2012 has in store for us. Welcome 2012!
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