I know it's been a while since I've written anything in here, but I promise I've been thinking and formulating this blog for months! I want to continue to blog my life on here especially now that I'm out of Iraq. I think it would be something neat to look back on in 5-10 years. I'd like to think that I'll continue blogging about school, married life, traveling, babies and everything that life happens to send my way. I also feel like blogging is a good way to measure my growth in my faith. I can scarcely talk about the events in my life without reflecting on the how and the why and I usually find that those answers have something to do with the way God is working in my life.
- By the way, I'm blogging while watching Julie and Julia... seems fitting.
So the quick summary of the last few months goes something like this: I got home in a whirlwind of emotions. It was an amazing feeling to be home with my friends and family but also there to greet me, was a funeral for my uncle. It was not expected, but very sudden and tragic. There is still something about it that doesn't seem real or make any sense. In the end, I'm glad I was able to make it home in time to be with my family during such a trying time. And since my return, it has been go, go go for the last 3 months.
Matt and I moved into a one bedroom apartment that we LOVE. It really does seem like the perfect place for a newly married couple. Or a couple that has been legally married, but are newly back together and just got covenantally married.... That is something that should be explained a little better.
Matt and I have been legally married since September 26, 2010. This was for all the added benefits soldiers and their dependents get for having a spouse. If something had happened to Matt while I was gone, as my husband, I could have taken emergency leave no questions asked. But as my boyfriend or fiance... I would have had a much harder time convincing anyone to let me leave. Also, Matt was automatically covered for health and dental insurance while I was gone. Before I left, there was no time for us to have the wedding that I had been planning since I was a little girl. So we planned for a December wedding in 2011 instead.
And what a wonderful wedding it was. I don't know if it was the smartest idea to have a wedding in between two major Holidays, but I certainly wouldn't have changed a thing. It was perfect from sunrise to sunset. There was laughter, and some tears... but only the good kind that comes about because your head and your heart are so full and happy that there is nowhere else for them to go except out from your eyes. There was a lot of dancing, good eating, and beautiful people. When all the pictures come in, I'll have a blog dedicated to that day. It is just too much to put in a catch up blog.
The Honeymoon was sublime. But also needs its own blog to go over the details of getting there and what a trial that was.
Matt and I brought in the New Year with a few good friends and a few good drinks at Habits Cafe in Oakley Town Square. We had a great time talking and laughing and at 10 till midnight, we went outside Habits to stand in front of the 20th Century Theatre. We watched their version of the ball drop, which was coupled with fireworks and singing. Good times.
And now, I've started school again. I also picked a major and I'm actually very excited about it! Two years from now, I should have my degree in Public Relations. I've never been more excited to be back at school. Now that I have a goal to reach, I'm definitely taking my education more seriously. Its a good feeling.
I'm going post this without editing because its nearly 11:00 and Matt and I are getting up at 6:45 in the morning to work out..... But I wanted to post something and revive this blog so I can finally start doing this on a weekly/monthly basis again!
- By the way, I'm blogging while watching Julie and Julia... seems fitting.
So the quick summary of the last few months goes something like this: I got home in a whirlwind of emotions. It was an amazing feeling to be home with my friends and family but also there to greet me, was a funeral for my uncle. It was not expected, but very sudden and tragic. There is still something about it that doesn't seem real or make any sense. In the end, I'm glad I was able to make it home in time to be with my family during such a trying time. And since my return, it has been go, go go for the last 3 months.
Matt and I moved into a one bedroom apartment that we LOVE. It really does seem like the perfect place for a newly married couple. Or a couple that has been legally married, but are newly back together and just got covenantally married.... That is something that should be explained a little better.
Matt and I have been legally married since September 26, 2010. This was for all the added benefits soldiers and their dependents get for having a spouse. If something had happened to Matt while I was gone, as my husband, I could have taken emergency leave no questions asked. But as my boyfriend or fiance... I would have had a much harder time convincing anyone to let me leave. Also, Matt was automatically covered for health and dental insurance while I was gone. Before I left, there was no time for us to have the wedding that I had been planning since I was a little girl. So we planned for a December wedding in 2011 instead.
And what a wonderful wedding it was. I don't know if it was the smartest idea to have a wedding in between two major Holidays, but I certainly wouldn't have changed a thing. It was perfect from sunrise to sunset. There was laughter, and some tears... but only the good kind that comes about because your head and your heart are so full and happy that there is nowhere else for them to go except out from your eyes. There was a lot of dancing, good eating, and beautiful people. When all the pictures come in, I'll have a blog dedicated to that day. It is just too much to put in a catch up blog.
The Honeymoon was sublime. But also needs its own blog to go over the details of getting there and what a trial that was.
Matt and I brought in the New Year with a few good friends and a few good drinks at Habits Cafe in Oakley Town Square. We had a great time talking and laughing and at 10 till midnight, we went outside Habits to stand in front of the 20th Century Theatre. We watched their version of the ball drop, which was coupled with fireworks and singing. Good times.
And now, I've started school again. I also picked a major and I'm actually very excited about it! Two years from now, I should have my degree in Public Relations. I've never been more excited to be back at school. Now that I have a goal to reach, I'm definitely taking my education more seriously. Its a good feeling.
I'm going post this without editing because its nearly 11:00 and Matt and I are getting up at 6:45 in the morning to work out..... But I wanted to post something and revive this blog so I can finally start doing this on a weekly/monthly basis again!
To sum it up....
ReplyDeleteYou are home and we couldn't be happier.
You are our daughter-in-law and we couldn't be happier.
You have the world at your fingertips and we couldn't be happier.
You are blogging and I couldn't be happier.
Love you :)