a new year, a new adventure.

i can still remember new years eve, 1999...sitting in my best friends basement, with all of our good friends...watching the ball drop, and wondering if Y2K was really going to happen.

our friends thought it was---hilariously, her parents had a closet full of canned goods and everything you would need to survive, should the world choose to blow up when the clock struck midnight.

and then the ball dropped and nothing happened.

talk about a letdown.

i'm sure they are still eating that canned food.

and now here we are...12 years later.

12 years.

so much has happened since that letdown of a night.

2001 - started following christ

2002 - met my mr. anderson

2003 - became mrs. anderson

2004 - caedmon was born, moved for the 1st time

2005 - hadley was born, moved for the 2nd time

2006 - got prego with milo

2007 - milo was born

2008 - moved from kansas to orlando

2009 - moved yet again, bought our first home, kohen was born

2010 - started the adoption process

2011 - elsa comes home from africa, olive is born

and now, 2012...our adventure continues.

mr. anderson has gotten a fabulous job...in dallas.

yup, we are moving.

(raise your hand if you live in texas!)

this decision was not thought about lightly, and in the end, we both agreed that this was where the lord was leading our family.

it's a hard thought, to pull your kids away from their friends and the life they know and love.

when we moved here in 2008, they were too little to understand the life-changing aspects of a move.  now that they are older, and are in school, it's a much bigger deal.

hadley actually sobbed when we told her (break my heart - the girl is SO sensitive).

milo was just concerned whether or not we would have food to eat while we drive there (after he found out the drive would be a long one).

so, we will be staying in orlando until the end of the school year, then it's back to the midwest.

i couldn't be more stoked, as it's driving distance from my hometown!

and the town we are moving to is supposed to be very family friendly...and well, we have quite the family.

so, we will spend the next 5 months slowly packing things away...trying to sell our house...making sure to do all of the things that we "must do while living in florida."

i know the time will go fast...and i'm good with that.

our lives are about to change again...but i wonder, do our lives ever stop changing?

looking back on my last 12 years, i would say that change is inevitable...and if you let it be, it's also good.