Day 28 Last time I cried

Last time I cried was watching my friend Angela's wedding. They were happy tears. I am so happy for her and her husband. I love seeing people fall in love and find the one they are going to spend the rest of their life with. Her and her husband are a truly sweet and amazing couple. She was a beautiful bride and he is a devoted friend and husband. 

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!!!!

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.

2012 Bucket List

So I am not real big on resolutions but I do like the idea of a bucket list things that I want to do by the time I kick the bucket but since I don't plan on doing that any time soon. So what follows is a list of things I would like to do this year.

1. Read my whole Bible this year (I started a plan on the youversion app on my iphone)
2. Lose 100 lbs this year. 
3. Fall more in love with God
4. Fall more in love with my husband
5. Build my marriage stronger with God's help
6. Go on vacation with just my husband
7. Strengthen my Faith and trust in God
8. Get Pregnant (at least would love to get pregnant and have the baby as well this year)
9. Get my office painted and decorated
10. Work with my Husband to build our ministry with God
11. Lead a small group @ Liberty with my Hubby
12. Get involved more @ church
13. Develop new friendships
14. Read 25 books that I have never read
15. Make a difference in someone's life. 

2011 in Review

I know everyone is writing a new years eve/new years blog and I am joining in. What a year this has been...

January- Was actually a pretty quiet month. We had a decent working van and stayed busy with church, and family, and friends. Jeremy had started working at the church twice a week.

February- I turned 25. Jeremy developed a hernia (which was completely healed by God with no need for surgery). Celebrated our second Valentines day and our first as a married couple. My baby niece turned 3 (seriously where does the time, things have changed so much in that time) Wrote my first blog about our baby journey, and realized 8 years had already passed since Mom has passed away.

March- Went to our church's womens conference where God challenged me to reach out to our neighbors more, talked about adoption. Bought a brand new couch and rearranged the living room. My baby sister turned 9 this year crazy I remember it like yesterday I was changing her diapers.

April- Another quiet month. Not a whole lot of excitement. My dad turned 51 this month.

May-  Osama Bin Laden was killed major major news! Threw my best friends baby shower. Was excited to see her. Our main a/c unit died. Formed our board for our ministry (Jesus Saves International Ministries) and had our first board meeting.

June-  Van broke down AGAIN!!!! Simple air sensor but so annoying. Applied for non-exempt status with the IRS for the ministry.

July- Plain old hot summer especially with no ac. Set a goal for the end of the year.

August- Jeremy became and ordained minister with Liberty Network. 2nd board meeting of the year.

September- Sprung a water leak in our pipe leading  to the house. Best friend had her adorable little boy on the first. Tropical Lee came thru and brought a couple of days of cooler weather (which I loved). Started Herbalife and lost 10 lbs the first week.

October-  Celebrated our 1 year anniversary. Continued Herbalife and lost 17 lbs. Drove to Ga to see my best friends Baby.

November- Adopted another little doggie (although it was short lived because I did not have the patience to deal with housebreaking all over again) Lost 10lbs. Celebrated Thanksgiving with my in-laws. Had family pictures taken. Created Christmas Cards. Decorated early for Christmas this year.

December- Lost 9 more lbs for a total of 46lbs since Sept. Celebrated Christmas early with my bro, sis-in-law, and nieces. Surprised my best friend for her birthday in Georgia. Celebrated Christmas with my in-laws including brother in law, his girlfriend and grandma in law. Got our approval for for non-profit tax exemption from the IRS. THANK YOU JESUS!!!! That was three and half years of hard work on my hubby's part. Celebrated New Years Eve with the love of my life on the couch watching the ball drop in New York.

Roxie

God works in mysterious ways. The hubs and I have talked about getting a second dog for awhile and have gone back and forth on it. A couple of weeks ago a friend on facebook put up that they were wanting to get rid of their dogs because they work so much and the dogs spend so much time in the kennel that they were feeling bad about it and we had decided to wait to get one for awhile but than they put something up again today. I responded that we wanted the little girl dog and we got her today. When they came over the hubs spent time hanging with our friends husband and got to share his heart about the ministry and where we want to go with our home studio and they were such a huge unexpected blessing because of that. So little Roxie ended up being a huge blessing to "J".
Here is Roxie Leigh "E"

Hello Again....

I know its been awhile since I updated this blog and I am sorry to my readers. Not much has been happening in our lives that has been blog worthy lately. But we did get some family pictures taken on Saturday and got them back already a couple of days ago so without further ado here is the "E" Family 2011...

This is us normally

Love it!

My "A" she is an amazing woman and friend. Truly Beautiful inside and out!

Liebster Award.

I was awarded the Liebster Blog Award from someone who I consider a friend that was only made possible by blogging. Wilma at Life In Our Corner Of The World. Liebster is German for dearest, favorite or beloved.

The receipent of this award should link back to the one who gave it to her and pass it along to 5 bloggers who have less than 200 followers

So Here are my Liebster Awards

Wilma at Life in Our Corner of the World

Christy at Fearfully-Wonderfully

Adrienne at Lovng Me Now

Jessica at How BitterSweet It Is

Mary Beth at The MaryBeeBzz

All of these women behind the blogs whether they know it or not have been an inspiration and source of encouragement to me in my life.