My First Family Blog

Well here it goes, my first blog. I don't know if I will do well at keeping this blog up to date, but after a year of marriage I have learned it is getting harder and harder to keep in touch with people and making sure everyone is apprised of all the little going-ons in our family. So I have decided to start a blog in hopes it will help keep the lines of communication open with family and friends that no longer live near by or that I just don't get the chance to see as much as I would like to.

As anyone reading this blog should know, my little family consists of three. Justin my wonderful husband, myself (the crazy one) and my adorable cat Fox...yep that's right, my cat. (As I don't have kids that is what you get people :P) At any rate, Justin and I lead relatively hum drum lives but I will do my best to keep this blog up to date with any news that may come up.

With this being my first blog I figured I would do a very quick recap over the past year. Let start with where this family began, Justin and I got married November 28, 2008 (and yes if your wondering we did get married on black Friday). It was a wonderful ceremony but of course I would think that, it was MY wedding. It started with my brother Greg rolled out the aisle for me, which was very symbolic for me as he has always been a big part of helping me find my path threw life. My beautiful sister-in-law Rachel did SO much to make that wedding happen but the most beautiful gift she gave us had to be the song she played as I walked down the aisle, she wrote it for me. My sister Angei was my Maid of Honor, another symbol for me as she has always been such a "Rock of Gibraltar" in my life. I was also blessed enough to be given away by my father and have my mother there to light my candle in the Unity ceremony. Justin's family likewise where amazing, Justin's mom and Aunt went out of their way to make us the coolest castle cake, it went along with our Celtic Mid-evil theme. His best friend Ryan Booker was his best man and I don't think there has ever been a man that lived up the title as well as he did! Right after our wedding, we where able to bring my Brother Greg and his wife Rach to the airport where THEY went to Hawaii (so ironic) where they now live. Justin and I went up to Estes Park and had a wonderful honeymoon that lasted a very short week ;)

After all the wedding excitement it was back to classes and back to work. I work part time with my family at Decker and Son Sausage Company and go to school for Digital Media. I can honestly say I love school and I have a fantastic job, I think the job part has more to do with the people I work with rather then the job itself though. I know it's weird but I actually really love working with my family! They are fun people to be around.

Justin is going to school for Management in the IT field and was working in a call center for HP when we where first married. Alas about six months after our wedding he was laid off and was forced to look for work elsewhere. It turned out actually very well for us though as it didn't take him more then a week to find a new possession out at Fort Carson! That is mostly thanks to Devin, an old High School friend of Justin's who recommended him for the job. My amazing husband then managed to land two promotions in a little over 5 months working there. But with these promotions came more responsibility and he decided to take a brake from classes in order to better focus on work. I also took a sabbatical from school, first just because I could and then because of a miscommunication with the school that kept me out of classes for an extra semester. The miscommunication has been fixed and Justin and I are now back in classes. We have both been working heard, especially Justin who just last week tested for his Security Plus certification and passed with an 885, only 15 points from a perfect score!

Other big events that have happened this past year have been few, but the few have been rather monumental! My sister Angei got married to Adam Weber this past summer in Seattle. I was blessed to be my sisters Maid of Honor and I even got to shot some of the reception photos. Mom, Dad, Justin, J.K. and I all enjoyed our stay in Seattle. The wedding was beautiful. Justin and I even got to stay a few extra days to enjoy all Seattle has to offer! Another exciting thing for me is (though it has nothing to do with Justin and I) my bother Greg and his wife Rachel are having a baby!!! I don't think I have every been so excited about a new life coming into this world as I am for Ariana Faith! Only a couple more months and she will be out here in the open air with us! YEY! I can't wait to meet her! But enough of my goo an gahing over my new niece. :)

Presently the only really exciting thing going on for Justin and I is our plain to move in Feb, that is if we can get into the apartment we are looking at getting. We have been living with my parents for the past year and they have been very kind to let us stay for so long. We truly have enjoyed living in the house I grew up in and being able to spend so much time with my parents. But we feel it is about time we get out on our own and we are looking forward to starting this next year in our own place! Unfortunately we are a little uncertain on what the upcoming year will be like (read prayer request below for more info) but I have to say, after this past year of marriage I am very excited to see what the future holds for us!





Prayer Requests:
Justin and I would like to ask for every ones prayer during the next few months, we are trying to focus our lives back on God. We have both had our ups and downs before we where married with our faith but we want this marriage and our lives to be Christ centered ones. Alas right now we are really struggling to see where He would guide us in the coming year/s. We are at the stage in our lives where we both have dreams and goals but we are just not sure which way we should go with them. I am a firm believer that God puts faith filled desires in our hearts, but we both have SO MANY OF THEM! For instance we would both like to do at least some missions after finishing our degrees, but we are unsure if we should try and pay off our student loans before we try to do a YWAM DTS or if we should do a DTS and then come home pay off our debt and then if we choose, go back and serve in messions. Justin also has a great deal of interest in local politics and we are wondering if he should take things a step further and get more involved, if we should buy a house and plant some roots and if it should be a greater focus for us to keep our ministry closer to home. Most importantly though, if I had to choose for everyone to pray anything for us it would be that we keep our faith, walk in obedience and to not give up when we do stumble and fall (because let me tell you, we both have our daily struggles and we fall away so often!)