Surfing in January.

All this good news!

Oh 2011 is off with a bang!

My sister is engaged and wedding plans are in the works. Think~ Colorado, June 19th (we are sharing our anniversary day), a fun and hippie-esque wedding.

It is another boy for us! Believe it or not- after some coercion Matt has given me full rights to picking the name. Hmmm.........James or Jacob are at the top of the list right now!

We bought a house. This has been in the works for awhile, 5 months to be exact. It is a foreclosed home a few miles from our current house. It needs a little TLC but we are close to hiking trails and tucked away in a beautiful valley. The closing is in just a week and then the craziness begins or rather just continues.......

Someone Like You.

I've been searching a long time

For someone exactly like you
I've been travelling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. Someone exactly
Like you.

I've been travellin' a hard road
Lookin' for someone exactly like you
I've been carryin' my heavy load
Waiting for the light to come
Shining through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. Someone exactly
Like you.

I've been doin' some soul searching
To find out where you're at
I've been up and down the highway
In all kinds of foreign lands
Someone like you... etc.

I've been all around the world
Marching to the beat of a different
Drum.
But just lately I have
Realized
The best is yet to come. - Van Morrison

These were the words Matt and I danced to at our wedding. As I hear this song, it amazes me that God's grace continues to shine down on us with such truth and wisdom. To know that in the struggle, He has a plan. A plan for me.

It was two weeks before Matt and I were to be married. He had been doing some soul searching, some deep and heavy stuff. Reading his Bible at the park, trying to find his place in this world. I was working my job as a pharmaceutical rep and busy as a bee planning the weeding. His life had been consumed by this book and while I knew my love for God, I was in what I remember to be a transition period. I knew that my heart did not sit with the Catholic faith as I had been raised and I was not sure where that left me. And while we had all the "necessary" discussions about money, religion, kids where did his changing leave us? We sat down and tearfully told him that I was not sure I would ever be the Sunday school/teacher/wife, stay at home mom, Bible searching women. Maybe that was what he needed, maybe that was what he wanted. What if I could not give him that? I told him to please think about it, think hard, and let me know. Without a moment of hesitation, he looked at me, grabbed me, and held me. He told me, "You are what I want. Whatever God has in his plans for us is what I want."

Looking back, this truly set the tone for our marriage. For him to have trusted Him. Matt has changed, I have changed (thank goodness!). To have thought I loved him that day we wed, pales in comparison to the devotion and admiration I have for him today. He is the father every child deserves and the husband every woman dreams for. He fights fair and loves deeply. We don't have the perfect marriage or perfect kids but we have a commitment to one and another and our amazing children that makes this life ten shades brighter than I ever thought it would be. Matt, I can never thank you enough. My love forever.

Getting bigger and bigger- 20 weeks with baby #3.