It is amazing the we have been back in the United States for a whole year and what a year it has been.
Our son had a horse riding accident fracturing his pelvis, breaking one big butterfly bone and cracking the other one. Then later finding out that he dislocated his jaw. He has had a successful year of healing. He is back to playing Rugby, riding horses, and snowboarding. We still have the upper jaw to get into place and allow it to heal. He took his GED and passed with flying colors. He has a semester of University behind him and is into his 2nd week of his 2nd semester.
Our daughter has adapted to being an American. Her heart still longs to be back across the pond in her beloved Scotland and Europe. But for now she is busy trying to choose universities, finishing up her last semester of high school, working hard as one of the leads in the school musical, and being Laurel president. We just watch her and are amazed how entrenched she has become with her friends here. She is always texting, phoning, and goofing off with them every weekend. She is hoping to be fluent in Spanish, French and trying to keep current on her Norwegian by the end of her school year. Can you guess she has decided to study languages at university.
It has been really fun watching both our children grow through their adjustments and challenges this past year.
My husband has loved his new job and continues to work really hard.
It has been a challenging year for me. I would honestly say that living in American has been the biggest and hardest adjustment for me. But I feel I am finally getting it. It amazes me how entrenched we became in the European life in the past 9 years. My health still continues to be my biggest challenge in my life. But I can only take it one day at a time. For each good day I have I thank my Heavenly Father, muddle through the bad days and try to set my sites on other good days to come. I seem to be knitting alot of things and watching alot of movies. I have a really strong support group here who check on me and offer tons of help. I am truly a blessed person.
For me the biggest highlight of the year was getting to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with my Dad. As we both grow older we seem to have more and more things to talk about and to share.
I am hoping to have the energy to keep up the blog, but we shall see. If it doesn't get done. Each of you need to know that you are in my thoughts often.
I hope that you have a wonderful New Year.
It is that time of year where the turtle are waking up from their long winter naps. Last year we had two out in the yard. We also have had two little babies one 2 years old and one 1 years old in doors all winter. We are trying to get the two little ones to wake up so we can transition them outside to learn to live, but they are just toooooooooo tired.
This guy is probably 4 or 5 years old and cruises everywhere. Tonight we found him eating the dog food on the back porch. But to his dismay the food was too big to eat so he moved onto greener pastures. Bugs, worms and flowers. 
As you can see those two little ones just look like beaches turtles. The larger of the two moved a little, but he has been burrowed down in his winter home for so long he had a hard time getting his legs moving.
