2017 in Review

January

• Degas at the MFAH and Mi Luna for dinner
• Baby shower

February

• Cora was born!

March through May

• Game of Thrones concert
• Stained the fence and did the spring gardening
• Easter family pictures
• Lots of fun stay-at-home mom activities

June

• Back to work

July

• 4th of July staycation 

August

• Trip to Fredericksburg 
• Solar Eclipse
• Hurricane Harvey
• Elissa moved to big girl bed

Harvey stats from Clear Creek Community Church

• 2500 volunteers cleaned out 1500 homes
• $1M donated to Harvey Relief Fund
• 1900 loads of laundry
• Many CCCC families are still housing displaced families and meals are being provided to the host homes

September

• Miss Sarah asked Elissa to be her flower girl next June!
• Swing Dancing at Rice University

October

• Pumpkin Patch pictures
• Astros won the World Series! 

November

• Marriage conference at church
• New nephew was born
• Family for Thanksgiving
• Elissa turned 3

December

• Mitch led us through our first family Advent devotional
• Snow in Houston
• STAR WARS!!
• Cora's first airplane ride
• Christmas with Colorado family
• Cora can crawl, wave, shake her head "no", clap, pull up to standing, and cruise!

Books Read in 2017

• Grace Based Parenting, Tim Kimmel
• Loving the Little Years, Rachel Jankovic
• Missional Motherhood, Gloria Furman
• My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers
• Uninvited, Lysa TerKeurst
• Field Guide for Everyday Mission, Ben Connelly
• Revenge of the Analog, David Sax
• A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
• Almost finished: Give them Grace, Elyse Fitzpatrick
• Almost finished: Reflections on the Psalms, C.S. Lewis
• Started: A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin