Radio Silence....

To all of my faithful followers - I owe you my sincerest apologies for consistent radio silence on the blog front. Life decided to blow up and get super busy and I have not been very faithful in keeping up with our lives in the blog. So once again, you will have to forgive me for the length of this post. However, I will try to keep it as concise and to the point as possible.

Since Jonathan's birthday, a lot has happened in our lives. We celebrated our two month anniversary on August 12th!! Jonathan worked all day and I ended up meeting up with a friend of mine from out of state, so we didn't actually celebrate that day. Tuesday is Jonathan's day off so we spent the day together and made up for it.

I started school on Monday the 16th. This is my last semester at Christ For The Nations so I'll be graduating in December!!!!! I am so excited and ready. It's been a good last three semesters, but I'm ready to move on to something new...like school that's challenging. Monday was my last "first day" of CFNI. It was a strange feeling because I couldn't help but think of how my life has changed since my first "first day" at CFNI. From January 2009 to now, my life has changed so much. During the last 20 months, I started dating my future husband, found out my dad had cancer, turned 20 and 21, made a whole ton of friends, got engaged, my dad died, put my dog of 12 years to sleep, went on a missions trip with school to Curacao for two weeks, got married on June 12th, became an aunt on July 9th, and now.....beginning my last semester of school at CFNI. I probably forgot some stuff but it's ok.

I actually hate this picture, but my mom insisted that she take a picture of my first morning of school at CFNI.
This is actually the first picture taken of us, even before we were dating.


This is not the most flattering picture of the four of us, but it's one of the last ones that we have.

Showing my dad my engagement ring the night Jonathan proposed









On our honeymoon in Mexico!!
My two best friends in the whole wide world....except for my boyfriend
My nephew, Austin Axl Rose

UNFORTUNATELY....I didn't take a pic of my first day of school this semester. I think you get the point tho. These pictures have pretty much outlined my life over the last 20 months.


My classes are interesting. I'm taking four classes and they are - the Ministry of Jesus, I,II,III John, Principles of Healing & Miracles, and Christian Counseling. The last four days have been really interesting as far as classes go, but I'm sure I'll have more to say about it later.

Ok well there's more to talk about what's been going on lately, but this post is long enough, and for that I must again sincerely apologize.


Just so you know....I already get to live as though Heaven is on Earth!



YEAH YOU KNOW IT!! More to come soon!

Jonathan's B'day

July 27th, 2010 (last Tuesday) marked the day that Jonathan was born 24 years ago. It is also the first of either of our birthdays as a married couple and so I wanted to make it a special day. I always want birthdays to be special because the person is special, but this birthday marks the first....I'm a sucker for "firsts" so it needed to be well-celebrated!

It just so happened that his birthday fell on his day off so it was a perfect opportunity to spend the WHOLE day together! We were going to get up around nine to start our day, so I decided to surprise him by getting up extra early and making him breakfast. I made him a lovely pan of cinnamon rolls. Unfortunately, I'm still not used to our electric oven, so I burnt the bottom of the rolls, but the top part was extremely yummy and gooey (add icing to anything and it will taste good!) I woke him up with breakfast in bed and we managed to down the whole thing of cinnamon rolls! So delish!

After breakfast, we got out of bed and it was time for PRESENTS! I bought him a lovely bottle of Calvin Klein cologne called Intense Euphoria and let me tell you.....it's a good title.




After presents, we went to the shooting range. It was his idea....he's a boy and it was his birthday. What was I going to say? No? I suppose I could have but we're newlyweds and I suppose just being together is still fun. ;-)





After shooting off over 100 rounds from a gun with some numbers and letters in it's title, we went and had lunch at Panda Express (also delish!) and then went to see Salt at the movie theater. It was a good movie actually....secret Russian spy stuff.

After the movie, as if the day hadn't already been long enough, we had a lovely Italian dinner at the Mac Shack with my mom and his parents, then we were off to the Rangers game.



The Rangers were playing the Oakland A's. If you didn't catch the game, you honestly didn't miss anything. The game remained 1-1 from the bottom of the 2nd inning until the bottom of the 10th inning when Nelson Cruz hit a walk-off home run that brought in two runs. It was a very slow and boring game. Thankfully, the fact that we were in good company and having fun together made the slow and boring game more fun.






Overall the day was very good! :) I think Jonathan enjoyed his day with all the fun activities that we had planned. Needless to say, we slept very well that night!