One Year Anniversary!

Happy One Year Anniversary! :)

Wedding April 28, 2012

Honeymoon Cruise May 2012

Lauren's Graduation - Missouri May 2012

Tennessee June 2012

Maryland Labor Day Weekend 2012

Aldersgate Family Camp October 2012

November 2012

December 2012

Brian and I have been blessed by our new community and home in Kentucky as we began our marriage together. So many adventures yet to come.

Birthday Boy Brian!

Yesterday was Brian's Birthday! :) The morning started with me slipping out of the room undetected and making him breakfast! :)

He had class and I had work so not too many exciting things during the day.  I got to meet one of the clients he works with when I joined them for dinner.  It was nice to turn his "work" time into some birthday celebrations.  We then planned on meeting back at home for some cake and homemade ice cream (which he knew about because you can't hide that stuff well when he shares the house with you). BUT, since I would get home 10-15mins before him I had some of our friends show up when I got home and hide in our house to surprise him.  I think overall he had a good day :)

Brian, thanks for being the most amazing, supportive, wonderful loving man I know. I hope you had a Happy Birthday! So blessed that you were born 24years ago!

Unfortunately I didn't get pictures. (I tried in the morning but he did not like that idea and by the end of the day I forgot to get one!)

Play Ball!

Lets just say I am  getting excited (even though it has been a last minute rushed effort to get a team together!) to play on a softball league starting this THURSDAY with Brian!

I played softball in high school and I loved it.  It was one of those things that just came together for me.  I played volleyball in middle school and everyone made a team.  I could not jump serve for the life of me but I enjoyed the team aspect of it.  Entering high school a friend of mine and I signed up for volleyball tryouts/interest.  She also convinced me to sign up for softball.  I had never played any baseball, t-ball or softball in my life. But why the heck not!?

So when I had to miss one of the try out days because of a funeral I did not make the volleyball team. (But lets be real, I am not so sure I would have been that great or made it even if I went).

So while lots of my friends played volleyball in the fall semester, fall conditioning for softball began. I showed up every Monday-Thursday.  We lifted weights Mondays and Wednesdays and did other types of conditioning outside Tuesdays and Thursdays.  All of this was optional but I didn't really have much else going on right after school my freshman year first semester, so I went. This was and will probably be the only time I could really do push ups and pull ups.  And it may have helped with baby fat that I still had from being a kid. I may have gotten sick one day due to deyhdration after being the only one there for conditioning one day. But all in all it was good for me.

I played freshman and sophomore year for my high school as the second baseman. I got the most improved player my freshman year (well that was easy seeing how I had never played before). As well as the best defensive player sophomore year. We did not win much, but it was so much more than that.

Some of us from our high school team played with a church league over the summers (I did this the summer after freshman, sophomore and junior year).  The last summer they put me as catcher. Not my favorite thing. Did I mention its gets pretty hot in Arizona without having to put on all the gear that a catcher has to put on? But I did it :)

Sophomore Year PVHS JV Team

Oh you know, no one wanted the oranges that someone brought for snack so I ate a whole gallon zip lock baggie full of sliced oranges. Refreshing!

We will see how much muscle memory and skill I have retained over the last 8 years!

Did I mention the field is right next to our house? Excited!

March came and went

Apparently I missed out on posting anything in March. And I am not completely convinced I was that busy or that I will be able to recall all that took place.

March was full of work.   We had a lectureship for four days at the seminar and the speaker was a great older gentleman but his age proved to be somewhat of an extra obstacle when making sure he got where he needed to be. Add in some searches, me picking up the slack of others, and things falling apart at the seams and I was pretty much ready to have the long awaited "spring break, "holy week" or "reading week" that ended the month. 

The only bad thing about time off while Brian is in the middle of the semester is the lack of time we actually get to spend together.  I was thankful that Brian was able to get caught up but that meant I would have to entertain myself. I spent part of two days out in the sunshine tilling and pulling weeds in our garden and another afternoon working with my friends mom on a baby shower that is coming up later in April. I will post pictures in the next month as I get the berries and other plants in slowly.

Brian and I also started watching our friends two kids 17months and 2 almost 3 year old on Sunday nights while they go volunteer with the youth at our church.  We are glad that we can be a blessing to them!

Look at that cutie!

This month has already proven to have many obstacles.  Please be praying for my attitude at work and that God would open the eyes of those I work with to realize that maybe they should treat me differently.  Lets just say that Monday the reason I didn't walk out was because of Brian and the amazing blessing and provision God has given us through my job to pay for his tuition. So instead I sat at my desk for 30mins and cried. One day at a time.

Three other woman from our church and I have just started meeting as a small group the past two Tuesday nights.  What a blessing to begin to feel apart of community again in this way.  I am most excited to be able to be known.  Oh how my heart has longed to be known by those that I am doing life with each week.  In Texas there were many people that I did life with but only a handful of people who actually knew me. And the state of transition that marked my time in Texas did not help.  I feel settled here.  I want to be settled.  I am so excited to be living in the same apartment for four years. And I cannot believe it has almost been a year since we moved here.  The last two Tuesday nights as I drove home my heart was full of Joy. And for that I am thankful.

Things I am looking forward to in April:
 -Leah's Baby shower that I am hosting
-Brian's Birthday
-Our One Year Anniversary and Camping Weekend (we decided instead of renting a nice cabin for the weekend, which would have been fun, we wanted to invest in something we could do again. So we took the money we were going to spend on the trip and now we have a tent, sleeping bags and we are slowing gathering other camping supplies and borrowing items such as a stove which is a little more expensive to get all at one time.)