My last blog post of 2025!

As always, I like to wrap up each year with a little recap, month by month!

This year had some big highlights with exciting milestones. It also had some heaviness including health concerns, etc.

The Lord also called us to a new church this year when we least expected it at First Baptist Spartanburg! We already cover special parts of life at FBS in other areas and through the invitation of friends, it became home to us on Sunday mornings too! This was big!

Let’s go month by month and see what we were up to this year:

January

Ringing in the new year at home with Candy Land

A mini snow day

Brewer’s “ballgame birthday”

And his first trip to the movies on his actual birthday!

February

Valentine Fun

Warm February weather days

Dancing with the Stars live tour

The beginning of a new T-ball season with coach dad this year

March

St. Patrick’s Day Festival in Clover

St. Patrick’s Day at the Riverbank’s Zoo

Celebrating this pretty mama and baby Fair

Our very first Spartanburger’s game!

April

Easter Bunny visit- Brewer is still not a fan, ha!

Easter in Clover

Strawberry pickin’

Lots of T-ball ❤️

May

Wrapping up my 10th year of teaching

Taking Brewer to Carowinds for the very first time and riding his very first roller coaster

Sweet Mother’s Day things

Celebrating my sweet cousin Jenna and her sweet baby girl

June

Celebrating a successful two weeks of swim lessons for Brewer with Strawberry Hill icecream. Harry became addicted this summer 😉

This cutie little patient got ear tubes and pain relief this month!

IOP summer vacay- 2025!

A trip to the Charleston Aquarium

July

Happy Independence Day!

Luke Bryan concert! There’s just something about a country concert in the middle of summer.. ❤️

Jeter Mountain in the summer has become a birthday tradition for me!

Christmas in July! New mommy/ family car 🤍

August

Feeding the ducks

Sweet little summertime memories

First day of 4K! I spent a lot of years teaching this precious grade in the traditional classroom so this felt like a full circle moment with Brew Brew!

The last Friday of August, we pulled out the fall decor with our Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin tradition!

September

Friday Night Lights at Tryon International

Capers’ first football game at his Daddy’s Alma mater

Fall fun with family including the NC Apple festival

This month, we also celebrated our brave mama! Over the summer, she was diagnosed with an early stage of breast cancer. Surgery + 6 weeks of radiation treatment… and she finally got to ring the golden bell. This was a scary season filled with anxiousness and uncertainty. We are grateful for early detection and the beautiful gift of life!

October

The Pumpkin Patch

Fall and Halloween fun with Uncle EE! We have loved having him in Sparkle City with us this year while attending college.

Fall fest at church! We are so thankful the Lord called us to FBS this year.

The Brown family use to live in our neighborhood and we reconnected at t-ball through FBS this year. When we least expected us, they invited us to come check out life group and the church on a Sunday morning! We had actually thought about visiting because we do so much life there in other areas, like t-ball, etc. The invite felt like a God sign!

We were welcomed with wide open arms by everyone, we have made countless friends, we were invited to be a part of an amazing life group, and we are surrounded by people who love Jesus and want to grow their walks with Him. It is growing our spiritual journeys too! ❤️

November

Life group girls Christmas party at our house!

Visit with Santa- 2025

Harry’s hallmark moment with a surprise dinner set-up on the front porch!

Cruising around on Santa’s sleigh in Greenville. This was a first time experience!

December

Capers is officially two!

A beautiful week in Turks and Caicos celebrating our 10 year wedding anniversary!

Christmas morning!

We ended the year on such a high- literally! We celebrated our birthday boys turning 2 and 5 on top of the mountains!

Capers turned 2 a few weeks ago and Brewer turns 5 in a few more weeks!

I can’t wait to recap this trip next Wednesday! It will be my first blog post of 2026!!

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I’m going to end today’s post sharing 2025 family photos:

Happy Happy New Year to you all! I pray for blessings, good health, and more Jesus for all of us in 2026! I have a feeling it’s going to be a great year! XO