So it begins...
  
     I have been inspired to begin blogging for months now, and things have just settled in enough to where I feel there is time to do so!  I blogged for most of all my high school years, and I love looking back on those- well, am embarrassed and entertained to look back on those. No, I will not give you a forwarding link to those teeny-bopping blogs. :]

  To put the last year, my favorite year, in a nutshell will most likely take away the depths of beauty that took place, and not really touch the depth of challenge that has also taken place... but, here goes:


March- sent a cheeseball facebook message to a guy I had never met, as a friend suggested we would "just be perfect."  He had neat pictures, great interests, an expressed love for Jesus, and a law degree- which originally turned me away from Mr. Perfect, assuming he would be a snobby, arrogant intellect.

April- Our interest for one another was great, and we laid out a beautiful foundation of friendship.

May- The interest became more than "great" and we began- officially- dating.

June- August- We fell in love, stayed up late talking about dreams, climbed trees, went trail running, dove into one another's families, became inseparable, & grew on the foundation of friendship we had laid, becoming best friends.

September- Joshua proposed. We set a date that night, and began planning a wedding 8 weeks away.

October- Crazy amount of restless nights and days of wedding planning.

November- Got married! We had decided to live in my aunt and uncle's RV, for the sake of pouring into the neighborhood as missionaries for Jesus, and the RV was struck by lightening the week of our wedding. Josh's parents were gracious and let us live with them until it was fixed.  Little did we know that would be the beginning of daily mishaps with the RV. It became a place I hated calling "home" and being confined by.

November- December- Problems progressed with the RV, and I began to loathe the 28 feet of hell we were living in. I exaggerate.... because, it wasn't that awful. In fact, we would still be there had I not insisted we live elsewhere, asap.
December 11, we found out there was a little life beginning to grow in my womb. :]
December 25, we gave a gift to our families letting them know about our little gift growing.

January- January welcomed mornings, days, and nights of morning sickness... and officially renting our first home!  We are so blessed by this little home, and have loved every bit of it- seriously, every bit. A shower five times the size of the RV's, which holds hot water for longer than three minutes, dishwasher, our bedroom separate from the rest of the house, a nursery to be, backyard, ...... this list could go on. We are SO grateful!

February- We both were way blessed to begin new jobs this month!  February still had morning sickness, and nausea like crazy.... which I hear means the baby is super healthy!


Annnnnd  today:  We are finally settling. Our worlds intertwining has been non-stop transitioning since October.  We did everything quickly- falling in love, marriage, baby, home.... and I would not change any bit of this all due to the amazing, strong man I have married and how fun he has made this journey. The challenges of transition have seemed completely overwhelming at times, relentless, and a cause for heart bitterness. No doubt, we both have fallen more in love with our God throughout all of this, and experienced Him in all sorts of new ways.... hard ways, loving ways, good ways. And, no doubt, we have absolutely reached a new depth of knowing, loving, respecting, comforting, and encouraging one another.  I never knew love could be SO rich with a person not my family.


Right now:  Just waiting for Josh to get off work. :] I think this is a pretty good recap, nut-shelled insight to our world.

We have found deep love, been challenged, overcome, laughed a lot, dreamed together (right next to each other!!!), and are preparing for the little love growing in me. God is so good.