Blessed to be a Part of a Blessing!

 

  There is no way I can express what my parents have done and who they are to me.  My mom and dad have blessed me, taken care of me and supported me not only threw my childhood but all of my adult life. In the worst times of my life, when I thought no one understood and I felt so alone, my mom was up nights praying for me. My dad walking me threw so much of my brokenness with his understanding and his constant acceptance of where I am in life and loving me anyway. I have put them threw a lot of heart ace and worry over my short life, not to mention all the financial burdens that has come with having a kid like me...yet never once have they held it over my head, never asked for an apology or been bitter by what I have put them threw (and trust me when I say, I know for a fact a lot of other parents would have been!)! All they have ever shown is love and thankfulness that I am so happy now in love with Justin and that God keeps blessing me in spit of myself!
  Now that I am married they have opened the same love and generosity to him. They have helped Justin and I so much threw the first year of our marriage by letting us stay in their home with ridiculously low rent. It has helped so much that even though Justin was laid off a week and a half ago, we have been able to keep up on all our bills without filing for unemployment and feel secure that we can continue to do so until he starts a new job.
  They have never let up on allowing God to use them in my life and in the lives so many others! Now, for whatever amazing reason, God has given Justin and I the honor of being a bridge for them to receive a wonderful blessing! A meeting between these amazing new Grandparents and their first genetic grandchild, Arianna Faith Jubilee Lilley! The first Lilley grand-baby! My parents have just landed in Kona Hawaii and should be enjoying Greg, Rach and Arianna right now! I know it sounds odd and even stupid but I got chocked up, had tears in my eyes the moment I new my parents where getting off the plane and meeting the newest member of our family. I couldn't help but imagining what my parents faces looked like and the happiness they must be feeling. I am so full of joy because God has given me this small role in His plain for my parents first meeting with her!

  Thank you God for allowing Justin and I to give a drop of water back to the people that have provided me with an ocean of blessing and love!!!

A New Year

  It's a new year with new starts! New Years Eve was a blast, went to Nat's house and enjoyed spending time playing games and eating some of the best home made noodles ever! YUM! I was able to see Jennifer, an old school friend that I haven't seen, well since school! It was so nice to be able to see her even if I didn't get to spend as much time catching up with her as I would have liked to. Mandy and Jen came as well as Eric, Nat's boyfriend who I had never met before.

  We all enjoyed a great game of Spacefarers of Catan, which I had never played before but was really fun (mostly because I won) :D After that game Mandy, Jen and Jennifer had to go to other engagements. So Nat, Eric, Justin, Nat's Mom, and I played a train game...the name of which escapes me at the moment. The point of the game was to get your train line from European city to another. But it couldn't be just any two cities, you where given what cities you had to connect on little cards. I lost...really really bad! LOL it was fun just the same as Nat and Eric where being very entertaining and slightly competitive about it. After that game was over it was almost Midnight, sadly Eric had to go home before the New Year but Justin and I hung around to see the ball drop at time square. It was a very fun but quiet way to bring in the New Year and I loved it!

  In other news, Mom and Dad are going to Hawaii in February to see Greg and Rach and the new baby. I am so excited for them and can't wait to see all the pictures they take! Much less exciting (but still exciting for me) Justin and I found a great deal on all the seasons of Ranma 1/2, one of my favorite anime, and he bought it for me...just like that out of the blue! He really is one of the most giving and kind people I know. He was so excited for me, and what meant so much more to me then the DVD's was the spirit in which they where given to me. He was just so pleased he could do that for me and it was a reminder to me of how greatly blessed I am to have such a wonderfully kind man as my husband! This is also kind of cool because Justin and I are starting to learn Japaneses using the Rosetta Stone program and we plain on watching the show in Japaneses after we watch it in English to see if we can understand at least some of it. We also start school in about a week, (though we do not yet know what classes we will have.) and I am really excited and am really hoping to be able to have classes with Justin again this semester! It really makes the classes so much more fun when we get to take them together!

  As fare as prayer request updates, Justin and I have been only doing so so on our new years resolution to have a bible study together every day. We have only done it about every other day and we would love some prayer on this. It is something both of us feel is very important and really want to do better! Another prayer request would be that Genna (my best friend) and I are trying to fix some communication issues we have been having and could use every ones prayer on this as well!

  Well certainly not the most inspiring or interesting update but an update none the less. :p