VACATION!!!!

Vacation Time!!! I am so excited. Tomorrow morning we are leaving for Savannah Georgia. My hubby and our roommate are all going to be able to go. This is the first trip that my hubby and I have been on together since before we got married. We are going to go see my best friend, hubby, and baby. They are doing their baby's baby dedication this weekend and they will have lots of family and friends there this weekend. I am so excited because we will be able to be there for 5 days, thats the longest we have ever been able to stay there most of the time we are there just for the weekend. Usually from Friday to Sunday. This will be my honey's first time to meet their baby. I will be posting pictures when we get back next week!!!!

Some new pics from our night out!

Last Wednesday night J and I and A all went down to Outback for our little family outing. After outback we went down to Palafox pier. I believe that is one of my hubbys favorite spots, he loves going there especially after outback or anything we do down in that area. We took a bunch of pictures while there and boy do I look like my momma. We got some good ones taken. We enjoyed our time down there will have to do that more often this summer especially with having our new wheels. I have also lost almost 50lbs in these pictures. J's face cracks me up in some of the ones in the last ones with all three of us.

Our new baby Cherry!

I am so excited and so is J, we bought our first car together yesterday! We bought a 2011 Kia Sorento. We were looking for a brand new car however there wasn't anyway they said that they could get a new car into our budget. We are so happy and relieved to have a new to us car and a car with warranties. YAY for warranties and for a new car with less than half the miles on it. We love all the features in it. We have the fold away third row seating, cd player, satellite radio (have to look into activating it) the trunk area is huge with the third row seats folded and they will be most of the time as we will only be using that when I have all three of our nieces with us or all of them and my little sister. The 3rd row is definitely more kid friendly. Even Molly likes it I took her shopping today to Petsmart and than thru the bank drive thru both places she was spoiled with dog treats at both places. Next week we will be adding the wheelchair lift on the back for J's power chair. Until then we will continue to use his manual wheelchair. We will get to break the car in real good next weekend when we go to Georgia to see my best friend and her husband and their little baby boy for his baby dedication at church.

To All the Single Ladies

Today is a special day for me today 2 years ago my wonderful, amazing, God sent boyfriend became my wonderful, amazing, God sent fiance. I know I know you probably are tired of hearing about all your friends love stories and the amazing men God puts in their lives... but please keep reading. I was there with you didn't want to hear any more stories about people finding the one that they had waited for the one they loved all my friends were pretty much all married off or in serious relationships just a few years ago and I had had my heart broken by the person I thought was the one and I was waiting around for God to strike him with lightening and knock some sense into him. Thank God that He didn't do that because I know now he wasn't the right one and waiting for the one that God did send was well worth the frustration, pain, and doubt I had.

I made a decision early in my teens to surrender my love life to God and to wait on His timing and trust my parents with their advice on the one I would marry. It wasn't easy and I made mistakes along the way and did things that I am not proud of. Like there was the blind date that went horribly wrong and I knew from the beginning he wasn't the right one. (I had lots of information about him before hand that I knew he wasn't the right one) Then there was the guy I knew from being a kid that tried to cross many lines and boundaries and I almost let him do it. Than there was my first serious boyfriend. I had known him since I was 12 years old and seriously thought even thru the other 2 guys that he really was the one. (lots of little things I had convince myself of). I had even just mere months before he asked me out and we began dating prayed that if he wasn't the one that God would keep this guys mouth shut and never ask me about taking a step forward. It was a crazy emotional 8 months that we dated and it was up and down roller coaster. I thought that's what love was and thought that I deeply loved him, but I lost who I was in that relationship and became more focused on him instead of God and so when we ended our relationship I was lost and it took me a long time to find myself and reestablish myself in God. It also took me time to learn and feel God's amazing grace as in that relationship we did cross lines and we ended up sleeping together and even several pregnancy scares did not stop us it was the power of God that did keep us from getting pregnant as He knew the plans He had for us. A little over a year later I got onto e-harmony just to see what was out there. I didn't have any plans on getting serious with anyone right then but I guess it was my fleece out there for God to use and He did. I started talking to this guy and would get annoyed because He would always wait until the free communication weekends were over (I was to cheap to to pay for a membership) to reply back and than I had to wait so what would have taken a few weeks took 3 1/2 months and than I decided that I could cash in on this deal that was like 20 dollars for 3 months and Things took off from there as I could communicate as much as I wanted with this guy. We meet for the first time on Dec. 15 2009 and it took off from there I had a lot of hesitation and wasn't sure after being so hurt before in a relationship I didn't want to get hurt again so... It took me about a month for me to actually listen to God and start dating him and than about a month later I was ready for J to propose so 3 month after beginning to date we were engaged. I know that seems really fast but I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was the one. One of the major things was that I didn't have to give up anything that I had prayed for in a husband and that I didn't have to change who I was to make him happy. The core of me could stay the same. I have done some changing for my hubby but its been little things like making sure I put extra effort into keeping the house picked up more than I ever did when I lived by myself and making sure little things that aren't important to me are done for him in a timely manner that I wouldn't do for long periods of time for myself.


Ladies let me encourage you to wait and hold out for the one that God has for you. When you take it into your own hands it gets messy like it did for me. I tried to convince myself that I could be happy with the one I wanted not the one that God wanted for me. I know ladies who didn't wait or didn't listen to God about the one to marry and they are either miserably married or unhappily together with someone or so far away from the plan that God had for them. I am not saying that God cannot take the mistakes of our past and use them for His good, I know He can and He has in my life, I just know that it is so much easier to wait on His timing instead of rushing our agenda and if you become patient and learn to seek His heart and face than you can one day look back on the goodness of God in your love life. I know that I am tremendously blessed because I didn't marry the one I wanted to marry. Example the last I heard about the one I wanted to marry he was living with his parents still (and he is older than me, I am 26 by the way) while I am married to truly the man of my dreams and the man of my blessing and living in a house completely paid for just a couple of weeks away from being completely debt free able to be a stay at home wife and serve with my honey in full time ministry with no outside job distracting us. Wow how amazing!!! (I am not saying that if the guy God gives you doesn't own his own house its wrong, I am just showing the difference in my plan and God's plan and how much better God's plan was for me than my plan)

I also encourage you to embrace the single season in your life because once you get married it all changes and sometimes even now it would be nice to go out with girlfriends and stay out late but I know that my present is truly that a gift from God and I am glad for my single season and even happier for my married season. Enjoy it go out with your girlfriends live slightly more carefree because you do gain more responsibility as a wife and eventually a mother. I know too many women who wish away their single life only to live with such regret when they get married that it ruins their marriage. Please don't be that way embrace it and enjoy what time God gives you as a single woman because it becomes part of the most amazing story and that is the story of You!

Testing...Testing... Is this thing on?

I know its been an awful long time since I posted anything on here and thought boy it's really time to update the peeps! God answered a major stress factor in our life we sold our van, and if any of you have read previous blogs you know what a headache this van has been. Case and point in January we spent over 500 dollars fixing the brakes not replacing them but fixing them all for the alternator to go out in February. We were just so over it!!!!! We had plans to just trade it in when we purchased our vehicle but we ended up talking to our wheelchair dealer on some specifics for J's new chair and told him that we were planning on trading the van in so we would need the chair to be able to go on a lift on the back of our car. He told us we might get a better deal selling it privately since it is wheelchair accessible, or someone might buy it for a work van especially someone in the wheelchair business. Lo and Behold he was the one who actually bought it and gave us Blue book value (I was happy because blue book was the amount I wanted and didn't think we would get).

We have been waiting for this week for about 2 years now as we would be getting our new vehicle and than we added to that 3 new ac's for the house and paying off a little bit of debt and the last of our wedding debt. We have been able to pay of the little debt still have the wedding debt to go. Anyways thought we would have the money already but the company sending it had computer glitches and so they have had to manually enter it and it looks like we should hopefully have it by Thursday or Friday. We definitely need it here by Friday at the latest as we will be get getting our new ac's this week on Saturday and need to pay the ac man that day. So Prayers are appreciated that it will be handled quickly and efficiently so that we will have that taken care of and be able to get our car as well this week or early next week.

So exciting yet slightly stressful time for us lately. We are also planning a trip to Georgia at the end of the month for baby S's baby dedication at church. Very excited about that and the fact that I get to spend more than one actually day there and that my honey gets to join me on this trip first time he will met baby "S".

Anyways as soon as we get our new car I will be putting some pictures up on here and facebook. Hopefully I will be able to do better at keeping the blog better updated.