Moving on to 2012.

Another year. Life is passing by way too quickly. It seems like I just wrote this post:

http://clayandjobeth.blogspot.com/2011/01/2010-glad-to-see-you-behind-us.html 

about 2010 and then I couldn’t help but go back and read this post:

http://clayandjobeth.blogspot.com/2010/01/2009-see-ya_08.html

on our year in 2009.

“Alright, 2011....can you bring me a baby?! Puh-lease :) I'm ready to complete my family. “

I took that sentence from the end of my post waving goodbye to 2010 and was surely hoping and praying that in 2011 we would be blessed with a sweet baby. That was obviously not in the Lord’s plan and I feel like all I ever do is blog, or talk, or post, or THINK about another baby. Ya’ll it is not easy to have such a STRONG desire for something and it just not happen.

2011 was a sweet year with my family, but also a year of changes, a year of struggles, a year of “NO” again and again and again – with 2 more of my sweet babies in heaven with a total of 3 failed cycles this year. My heart just hurts. But, I also rejoice in the happy times we had in 2011.

Our sweet Reese turned 3 in April – she is seriously our ray of sunshine in the midst of some very cloudy days.

May we experienced another heartbreak with a failed IVF cycle. The day after Mother’s Day. I cannot dwell on that because my sweet miracle, Reese made me a mommy so that day will always be special to me.

Summer months were spent by the pool with friends. Reese and I both ended the summer with some serious tans and super blonde hair!

August was a month of first with Reese’s first day of Preschool and her first dance class! She is flourishing at both and loves them!

September and November were two more months of failed procedures and disappointments. We don’t even know what’s next – but, we’ll head back to the doctor soon to say again, “what’s next?” Would you continue to pray with us?

I did, however, have a prayer answered in November in that I officially quit my job and became a stay at home mommy! I watch a little girl in my home and am loving every single minute I have to keep our home and raise our sweet Reese. I won’t have to miss a single thing now and am so so grateful the Lord made it possible for me to do exactly what I’ve always wanted to do.

Now, for 2012…I don’t know what my resolutions are, or goals should be or what…..I feel like for the last 3 years I’ve started the year off with a request and it’s not happened yet. Yes, I know that this is all apart of the story that my Jesus is writing for our family. I pray that I can be content in whatever happens this year.