A Little History

So it's about time you got to know a little more about me. Joe and I have been together seven years and we have been married for almost five years. We had a beautiful baby girl in 2003. She was premature and lived twelve hours. Our 2 year old love bug looks exactly like her big sister. We had a beautiful house and both made very decent money. Due to circumstances beyond our control (it was a long list of crappy events) we lost our home in 2007. We are very blessed and a long time friend of Joe's offered to let us stay at his house until we got back on our feet. There is of course much more to the story than that, but for moment this will suffice.

All of that now being known, today we signed the lease on a house! I am so very excited that we will have our own place again! I can use my own pots, pans, dishes and decorate my environment! We can have friends over to the house and our love bug will have her very own room.

I am a little sad because our love bug took her first steps in the house we are in now. I am anxious because we are moving to an area that I am very unfamiliar with. Please do not mistake any of that for complaining. My family has been abundantly blessed by God. There are people who lose their homes and have nowhere to go, nothing to eat, no income. There are people who never got to have a beautiful house that they could lose. We have always had a roof over our head, food to eat, and overall what we needed and to a great extent the desires of our heart.

We are a very blessed family and I am so excited to move into our own home. My mother-in-law is also going to be living with us and that is a tremendous blessing in and of itself.

I have included a few pictures here of my family. I will include earlier photos in a later post. We recently got our current computer and haven't transferred all of our files yet. We will be moving in the next two weeks and then getting settled in. That will explain if there are little to no posts for a month or so. I hope you enjoy the pictures and pray for us as we settle into our new home.

By the way I love Alison Krauss. She has an amazing voice. It is so beautiful and pure and speaks to me in a very personal way. I have included one of my favorite songs called "Simple Love". This song is beautiful and reminds me of my dad. If he were still with us March 7th would have been is 86th birthday. I loved my dad very much and miss him tremendously. So, this song and it's placement are a tribute to dad. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.