A New Year Part 2

Wow! It is amazing how quickly time fly's when you are having fun!

Its been a great last 2 weeks spent with Family, Friends and doing the usual craziness.

The Williamson Family (Mateo's oldest sisters husband and girls) decided to come hang out for a few days and since we were all in town it was decided that we should get some family photos done! Here are a few of my favorites! :D

(The Mancas and Williamson Families)

 (All the ladies in the families)

(I think we might outnumber the men but we will be adding one to this bunch this year!)

(Our Growing Family)

Following the family pictures we had a graduation party for Samuel and Maria at the Mancas home! Samuel Graduated with his Associates degree and Maria graduated from High-school! We are so excited to see what is in store for them in their futures!

At Church the next Sunday Alegria snapped this picture of Mateo holding his youngest niece who is going to be 2 in March! She was so exhausted from the busy weekend!

(Here we are at 22 weeks!)

I snapped a few shots of my awesome husband playing Frisbee and thought I would have a few bragging moments ;)

I love to watch him play Frisbee!

(Just some flowers my mom and I found at Kroger that I love!)

Over all this month has been filled with memories that we will cherish for many years to come! We are so blessed to be able to spend this time with our Family and Friends!

I will leave you with the end of Ecclesiastes 1 and I pray as we continue into this new year that our eyes are continually fixed upon our Savior and constantly trusting in his grace and love!

~ Until next time ~

 

I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted. I said in my heart, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind. For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

 (Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 ESV)

A New Year

Well it's a new year and we are already halfway through the first month! It is so hard to believe that we have been here in Georgia for 3 weeks! How can time fly by so quickly?!

 We began the New Year by celebrating with good Cuban cooking, games, and fellowship with Mateo's family and my parents! We had a great time! Here are a few pictures of that evening!

(Maria being well.... Maria lol)

 (My husband being his usual goofy self!)

(Thinking deep thoughts about the game)

(My mom and Lidia the dish ladies!)

(Cleaning the kitchen after some great food!)

(Lucas, Kaycee and Mateo)

 

After all the partying was over we began the process of settling into a new routine of living life down here in Georgia.
 On January 2nd I made it halfway through my pregnancy!!! It is so nice to have made it through the first half and I am looking forward to the second half even more!!!
 We are so excited to meet our son!

(20 week baby bump picture)

(My husband showing his excitement about my being halfway lol)

Mateo started playing Frisbee again with our group down here in Georgia on Sundays. I enjoyed watching them play and being able to marvel at the beautiful sunset!

(I love getting to see the beauty of God's handiwork in the sky)

I have been looking for a baby album for my little man off and on for a little while now and one day at Hobby Lobby I ran across one that I fell in love with!!! I am so excited about it and can't wait to start filling it with pictures when he arrives!!!

My Mother-in-law had knee surgery on her right knee on the 8th and is now in the recovery stages. The surgery went well but prayers would be appreciated as they work through the long and hard process of recovery. 

Well that's pretty much all the updating I can do right now. 

I hope you are having a blessed beginning of 2015!

This year I have decided to go through the book of Ecclesiastes and since there are 12 chapters, every month I will focus on a new chapter. I am excited to be able to spend this year focusing on this incredible book of the Bible and what the Lord is going to teach me through it!
 Here is the first half of Chapter 1 in Ecclesiastes.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again. All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us. There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after. (Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 ESV)