Decisions...

I know that it has been a very long time since I have posted but there has been way too much going on. Many things happened at once. We bought a house, Bobby transferred jobs (twice), we trained for and ran a half marathon and various other emergencies happened. The number one thing that changed my life and left an impression on my heart though is when I got the call from my mom this summer telling me that my sweet little niece had been diagnosed with skin cancer at the age of 8 years old. Praise the Lord that surgery has been successful and as of right now the cancer seems to be gone. Once she has gone five years without it reoccurring she will be considered cancer free. Why do I bring this up?Because quite honestly I feel like I have been living life all wrong, all for myself. But I know now that God is good and He has blessed me with so much and I want my life to be poured out into others. Especially my little family! I want to be the best wife, mom, daughter, sister, and friend. There are many things that I want to do and time I am learning is precious. So I am at a crossroad. I'm not sure if keeping this blog is the best way for me to do any of these things. So, I am in serious prayer of this decision. If I choose not to continue with it I will keep the blog up more than likely so if you want to read previous posts you can. We will see. If over the course of the next several months I have absolutely no time to write or if I feel God is leading me away then I will let it go. Thank you for following me on our journey thus far, my heart goes out to all of you. Until I decide I hope that everyone has a blessed Thanksgiving and a wonderful Christmas! 

Sincerely,
Liz

We are making progress! :D

I am happy to say as I write this that there is a 95% chance that we will be closing on our home at the end of this month! So that means by May 31st we could be holding the keys to our first home! I am so excited! :D God has blessed us so much in this process, we have just seen His hand in all of it. I can't go into full details now because it would take too long but we had almost lost hope of finding a good house in our price range and this house just popped up on the market. And it also has 3/4 of an acre on it that we are super excited about. It's everything that we could have ever wanted in a starter home and more. I am so, so thankful it was brought to us. 

It has been a dream of ours from the time we married to have a little place like this in the country (it's just outside the city limits, about 20 minutes or so depending on traffic) so that we could garden and spend more time outside. I am excited about having a dishwasher for the first time since we've been married! and a working stove lol! 

Not only all of this but I will be close to my cousin, she literally lives 5 minutes up the road! Did I mention I was excited? lol :D 

It is going to be bittersweet leaving this house because it's my grandmother's home, and she is very ill now, and we had our first little baby here. So, lots of memories. Unfortunately it will more than likely have to be sold soon :-/ but I am ready to take the next step in our life. 

We are heading to my hometown tomorrow to spend the night with family and have a small party for S's first birthday. I can't believe that a year has gone by already! she's so big now! I want to be more diligent on recording memories with her so that's why I've been toying with my mommy blog lately too. I hope its perfect weather this weekend because its been a while since I've seen my family.

Hope everyone has a great Friday!
-Liz  

More to come...

My site will be under construction for a little while as I work to bring more posts and related items to it. I pray more then anything that I can be of encouragement to others out there. Stay tuned :)