2018=🎢

This year has been one of the best and absolutely the worst year of our lives. I spent the first 5 months pregnant. In January, I was told it was likely that my baby boy would be born with Downs Syndrome related to a 2 vessel cord. I had my beautiful baby boy in May and he is thankfully perfectly healthy. In June, my mother in law was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and started chemotherapy. In August, my husband's grandmother passed away after 5 years with dementia. On September 16, my mother in law lost her battle with cancer. Just 6 hours later, in the same house, her sister, my husband's aunt, passed unexpectedly. We truly believe she died from a broken heart. The day of his mother's funeral, another one of her sisters/his aunts lost her battle cancer. Now, we are in the process of buying our first home using the money that was left to my husband from his grandmother. We are so excited for this next step and I feel like my husband especially deserves a little happiness after the year he's had. I've always heard the phrase "rollercoaster of emotions" but never experienced it until this year. I can't wait for 2019 and I hope it is so much better than 2018.