Love, Sarah, Jason and Ilona Noelle Redelman
2012 is certainly a year to remember! We were blessed with many graces and will highlight just a few to sum up the year.
The 12 Graces of Two Thousand Twelve
12. After returning home in June from our first year in Honduras, we rushed off to San Antonio for the annual Milano family reunion. It was great to see my aunts, uncles and cousins from all over the country. We are certainly blessed with a large, loving family!
11. I began another graduate program at DePaul University to earn my Type 75 Administrator's certificate. I am a few classes away from finishing and have high hopes for how this license will open doors of possibilities for my career.
10. Jason passed his LSW test! He is now a licensed social worker! Congratulations my love! Now he's on the job hunt for when we return, but with his skill set and excellent educational background, we are excited at the many options he will have available to him.
9. Our Csukor family grew by two this summer as we celebrated my cousins, Hannah and Sam's weddings to Paul and Kylie. They have been a part of the family for years, but this summer made official what we all felt in our hearts.
8. We took our first Semana Santa trip to Roatan with Wells and Austin. The trip was incredible! A lot of relaxing by the pristine blue waters, swimming with dolphins and delicious seafood dinners. We didn't realize it at the time, but our lives were about to change forever!
the beautiful sea of roatan...west bay
7. For our second Semana Santa trip, Liz came to visit and we went to Guatemala for the first time. Another country off the list! We started our adventure in Guatemala City, traveled to Lake Atitlan and finished off the Easter holiday in Antigua.
6. Jason and I took two different Babymooning trips together: one to our favorite spot in Honduras, Copan Ruinas, and another to Rio Dulce, Guatemala.
5. We decided to spend one more year in Honduras: looking forward to more adventures, growing in our Spanish language skills, strengthening our faith, and becoming more of a unit as we grow more in love.
4. Jason and I took a trip to VA Beach to visit Joey and Brian. They were the most excellent hosts and even blessed us with a pregnancy photo shoot.
3. Sharing the news of our pregnancy with our families at the airport was a highlight for us. June 2 was a day we looked forward to for months and I think we gave our families the greatest surprise of their lives.
2. Exciting changes in our immediate families: recommitments, exciting moves, buying houses, future cousins, a wonderful job to come home to, our future in aurora... we have SO much to look forward to in 2013!
1. Ilona Noelle is the brightest shining light of our lives in 2012. She was born of grace and blesses us daily. Our love for her grows abundantly more each and every day. We are enjoying each and every minute with her, as well as looking forward to the possibilities ahead of us in 2013.
OH MY GOODNESS I want to gobble her up! Seriously... it's a good thing I'm not down there right now because I just want to SQUEEZE her! :) and you! She is beyond gorgeous (obviously) and I'm in love already! Missing you more than I can say... love you all SOOOOO much!
ReplyDeleteI just cannot stop looking at my beautiful grand baby....she is SOOO sweet.....thanks for the photo's.
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