We sold our house! 21 days on the market and we sold it!!! WOW!

Now we just have to figure out our next steps.  Please be praying everything goes smoothly between now and closing (which is still 6 weeks away).  We need to find jobs, move, and figure out exactly what God has for us.  I’m so excited and looking forward to this next stage.

Maybe the next stage will have a better view

On January 18 I had my gallbladder removed.

I swear the thing is regrowing itself.  I’ve been told that it may take a while for my body to adjust to the missing organ, but I think my body is growing a new one.  It’s like how if you cut off part of a worm it just regrows itself.  Pretty cool.  Also painful.  I can’t wait to eat without my stomach being annoyed.  Maybe a few more months until my new gallbladder is fully grown in and will be functioning well.

Here was me getting ready for my surgery:

And the gallbladder:
(the nasty white looking thing is my completely dead gallbladder, However…I have a GOOD looking liver!)

Good times.  Just thought I’d share.  Have a good day!

Today this precious girl turns 5:

Waaaaay too cute!!!

This is my husband.

I like him a lot.  Wednesday we will celebrate 8 months of marriage.  The best part is that it gets more fun every single day.  Since we are in a “transition” time in our lives, we are getting to spend a lot of time together.  A WHOLE LOT.  I went to pick up a friend from the airport today, and I think that was the first time we’d been apart in over a week.  Literally.

It’s pretty fun. REAL fun.

But also since we are in this “transition” time, we are pinching pennies and can’t go do a lot of the things we’d like to be able to do.  So we’re trying to find free/practically free things to do with our time.

Here’s where you come in.  What are some things you and your spouse have found to do that’s cheap and a fun bonding experience? (That wont end up costing us a lot of money in oh say…9 months?!) Sometimes it gets kinda old sitting around the house watching tv and playing candyland (yeah we did that today).

I love him and can’t imagine doing life with anyone else.  I’m a lucky girl!

This guy wrote a blog that got my brain working.  Scary huh?

I want to be a risk taker.  Brook and I are really in that place right now.  We want to take a risk and try something new and exciting.  God has continued to close doors in our lives.  When do the doors stop closing, and some start opening? At least a window or something?? It’s getting awful stuffy in here.

I trust that He has something for us.  I believe with everything in me it’s going to be something great.  And I feel deep in my soul that it’s not going to be simple.  That’s the hard part.  It’s going to take a risk or two, and possibly a big step of faith.  That excites me.

We’re in the midst of a big risk, and I feel moving toward an even bigger one.  Can’t wait to let you know exactly what that will be!

Since getting married I’ve made it my goal to learn how to bake and cook.  A few things I have learned how to do, and many things I am still working on.

The most important thing was to be able to make great chocolate chip cookies.  I could always make them taste good, but they never really looked very good.  So that has been my new adventure.  Which my husband doesn’t mind at all because he loooooves him some chocolate chip cookies.

One of my favorite friends is an incredible baker.  She owns this business, and makes the yummiest things I’ve ever had! So thanks to her, I was able to finally create some perfect chocolate chip cookies.

I’m so excited to perfect my cookies and someday be the mom with the best chocolate cookies.  Well unless we live close to Wendy, then I can just be #2!!

This is Alex:

He’s our new baby.  And we’re pretty much obsessed with him

(and those of you that came here from twitter or facebook…gotcha!!!)

I envy my husband.

The other night he compared his brain to a hotel:

…and mine to a large dome:

He has many different rooms…well 6 to be exact:

1) Poker Room
2) Watersports Room
3) Love & Wife Room
4) God Room
5) Football Room
6) Nothing Room.

I’m so jealous he can go from room to room without thinking about anything in the other rooms.  My brain has no rooms.  It all runs together and is a never ending vast of stuff.

I’m mostly jealous of the nothing room.

He can turn it all off and just think about nothing.  I can’t imagine what that would be like.  I attempt to slip into another “brain room” only to find myself still entangled in everything else around me.  Not fun.

So today, and this doesn’t happen often, I’m actually jealous of men.

THEY’RE BACK!!!! Last night I attended a New Kids On The Block concert.  That’s right.  It was spectacular.  Now my first thoughts going into this was thinking I’d see the same cute 17 year olds as before.  But I realized that was a long time ago.  Now they’re all grown up.  That worried me a little.  My worry was quickly taken away.

THEY WERE AMAZING! These boys aged WELL.

Then:

Now:

It really was an awesome concert and we had a blast.  We had a private suite stocked out with tons of food and drinks.  Incredible seats, good company and lots of fun!!

When we’re faced with difficult times everyone always says “Just trust God”.  Ummmm OK! Thanks…so helpful. But call me crazy…sometimes I need a little more than that! In the particular season Brook and I are in, it’s really teaching me what that means.

As I think back on my short, amazingly blessed life I find it hard to think of many times where I’ve really had to TRUST with pure, blind faith.  Sure there were those times I thought everything was crashing down around me because The Gap didn’t have my size in that certian shirt I HAD to have.

Now I am understanding real trust and real faith.

Do I enjoy it? Ummm not so much.  But I wouldn’t trade it.

Would I like to know where we are going to end up and when? You bet! But I’d rather it be in His perfect timing.

Do I get scared and worried? You better believe it. Every single day!

But there is joy in the morning.  There is the sweetest man I’ve ever known taking care of me every single day.  And we trust in a God who won’t leave us and has BIG plans for us.

“Desperate, I throw myself on you; you are my God!
Hour by hour, I place my days in your hands.”
Psalm 31:14-15a