Year in review

Wow! What a year!!! Recap: January-Brielle's 3rd birthday! She's growing up so fast and is a wonderful blessing to us! February-Welcome Cooper James Hoegh...Another miracle blessing! March-Bri and I make the trip to Branson to watch Jacey at nationals. Lynnae comes to visit us all in Orange City. Fun times! April/May-who doesn't love April and May every year?! Plus we have now finished up all kitchen remodeling and home improvements. We're happy with how everything turned out. June-Judson turns 2! No doubt a peach and a blessing to all of us! July-Aubyn gets a much needed girls' weekend in Des Moines with her college friends. What a neat group of lifelong friends she has! Jerod got to go with Jerome to Missouri for the show-me-state games. We took home 2nd. The next week Jerome, Jacey and I took home 1st place in the Aspen League in Des Moines while the Hoegh family vacationed in Pella. Good times, biking, boating, and spending time relaxing with family. August-8th wedding anniversary! It feels like just yesterday we celebrated that special day. Every year we wonder if how it just keeps getting better and better! September-Henry and Karissa's wedding. It was great to celebrate that special day with them. Welcome to the family Karissa! October-Brielle is in gymnastics. She really enjoyed bossing around...I mean playing with new friends. She also is now in Sunday School and Kids Club every Sunday and attends Mopettes every tuesday while Aubyn is at MOPS. November-Bri and I made the trip to Missouri with Jerome/Ashley and Mom and Dad to watch Jacey play his football playoff game. Andrew, Janna, Kavan and Riley made the trip from Phoenix as well. The team came up short but we're proud of Jacey and the team. December-it's cold outside but warm inside with these three crazy kids running all over the place. We hope each and every one of you had a special 2013 just as we did and we pray that each of you feels and shares Christ's love this Christmas season. Love Jerod, Aubyn, Brielle, Judson and Cooper.

Wow! I've really let myself go!

Seriously, I have blogged something like twice a year lately. That's not nearly enough. The only reason I can give for not blogging more is that we've been busy having fun with no time to stop and write about it. We're enjoying the moment...every moment that God has given us. So a quick recap since my last post. September Henry got married to Karissa. Personally, I don't see it. I think they both could have done better:). Just kidding. It was a great day and we're so happy for them. Other notable news: Brielle is good at gymnastics. She had class throughout the fall once a week. She really had a lot of fun with it. We spent a lot of time traveling to Jacey's football games. Brielle and I made the trip to Missouri to watch an unfortunate ending to a great season for the Red Raiders. Jacey did great! We'll miss watching him play. Cooper is doing a one legged crawl all over the place. He's close to walking but must be afraid of heights. Judson is talking all the time. We're still unsure of what language it is, but he sure has a lot to say. Bri is still giving us moments that make us stop in our tracks. "Dad, will you be my prince?". God is good, very good!

Over a year?!?!?!

It's been over a year since I've last blogged...but I won't focus on the negatives. I'll focus on the positives. I'll try to sum up the past year real quick. It was FANTASTIC!!! Seriously, Jacey was here at NW for school and so we got to see him play football and basketball and more enjoyable just see him at the house interacting with the kids. We've done a lot of work to the house. The most exciting is putting a fence around the back yard and placing a playset back there for the kids. They love showing it off. Speaking of kids, we've enjoyed watching Brielle and Judson get bigger and play together...well Bri mostly bosses him around but they love each other. Early morning on February 5th we welcomed into our lives Cooper James Hoegh. We were able make it to Sioux Falls before he showed himself. Aubyn was amazing during labor and continues to be wonderful with the kids now. Managing a 3 year old, 2 year old and a newborn that doesn't sleep is no easy task. Cooper is such a blessing from God to us. What an amazing miracle he is. We really enjoy watching the three kids interact now as Cooper is sitting up watching the other two. We think one of these days he'll just take off and run with them. Judson is talking more and more. He's a little hard to understand so if we don't get what he's saying he gets frustrated. That's when Bri steps in and says "Judsy says I can have his toy". She's quite the older sister. Both Bri and Juds love to go to the farm and see the tractors and cows. Feeding the cattle with prapa is a must. Cooper just now has slept through the night 6 nights in a row! Even with less than adequate sleep for the last 6 months, we are filled with joy thinking about our lives with our kids.