Can't Believe Christmas is Almost Here

After a 4th month hiatus I am back.

It dawned on me this week that Christmas is next week - that in less than 7 days it will be Christmas. It doesn't really feel like Christmas to me. We haven't finished our shopping and our tree is only half up. This is the first Christmas in a long time that I feel like I haven't gone all out. Maybe its because I am tired, work is stressful, or that Christmas decorations are great, but Jesus is better. I really hope it is the last one and I am not just getting lazy.

This Christmas Matt and I didn't ask for much, because the Lord has given us so much this year. We both have good jobs, a roof over our heads, and food. We do need things, but we are so blessed compared to most of the world, especially right now.

This season we are trying to not focus on the eternal things of Christmas, but focus on the incarnation of Christ and what that means for us as sinners. Every Christmas I am more blown away that the Lord came to earth and lived as a man and did it willingly and then willingly died for us. What a Great God we serve.

So take a moment this week amidst the last minute Christmas shopping, and stress of finishing up work, and maybe even the stress and family and remember that Jesus came to earth as a baby and even then He was our Savior. Thank Him that He came, was tempted but never succumbed to it, and then died for us.

We love all of you and wish you a Merry Christmas!

Trying to find Balance in Life...

So I usually think of myself as a pretty organized person who can juggle a lot of things and still do them well - lately the Lord has showed me that I am not.

Since starting me job at Colonial I feel like my organization and the ability to find balance is sorely lacking. I feel like at work I can't organize all the projects that I need to do and at home I feel like our house is a wreck. Not to mention time with Matt.

With this whole balance thing, I have felt like my priorities have been skewed. The Lord and Matt should be getting the most of me and not work. How do I juggle all these things, how do I give God and Matt the most of me? These are questions I am continuely asking myself.

If you are reading this and you are a wife and work a full-time job, or have worked a full-time job, how do you balance everything? How do you be everything you need to be and still have time for yourself?

I really wish the feminist movement never would have happened, because if it never happened then wives would be able to just be wives, and not working wives, and moms would just be able to be stay at home moms and not working moms.

The Lord is slowly chipping away at my control issues and showing me that I am serving my husband and Him by working. The fact that I am broken means that perfect balance in life will never happen with me - it needs to be Him working in me. Now if I could just believe that truly. Still working on that one. Praise the Lord that I am not a finished product just yet - for now I will just be a work in progress.

2 years and going!

Sorry for my brief hiatus from blogging. I realized a few days ago that it has been almost a month since I have blogged. My job involves me using my computer for most of the day so when I come home I am just down right computered out. But that is no excuse, I will try to blog and comment more frequently again.

And on to the real post...

Matt and I just celebrated our two year anniversary. I cannot believe that it is already 2 years. Sometimes I feel like it has been a long time that we have been married, in a good way, and other times I am like it has been so short.

Our 2nd year of marriage was way easier than the first. The Lord has been so gracious to us. This year my health was a lot better, and the I feel like the Lord has taken us out of the transition stage of marriage. Our love has gotten even stronger for each other and for the Lord.

We celebrated our anniversary in Austin this year and I wanted to share some pictures with everyone. Enjoy!

Matt took me to a place called Hamilton Pool.
Its a natural pool that is formed in a cavern.
The water was cold but it was so beautiful!

Here is a picture of us together at Hamilton Pool.
See how beautiful it is!

We decided that on this trip we would only eat at
local places. This is us at Uchi at our anniversary dinner.
It is supposedly the best sushi place in Austin.
It definitely exceeded our expectations.

We also visited the capital building while we are there.
Interesting fact, our capital is taller that
the US Capital. Go Texas!

Here is me outside the capital.
It is so big, Matt couldn't fit me and the whole
capital in the picture.

The lights in the capital building
say Texas on them.
Our tour guide, loved Texas, it was great.

Here is Matt standing in front of a canyon
that was given to Texas to use in the Civil War,
I think, don't hold me accountable to that.

We we were walking back to our car
after we visted the Capital we
saw a State Trooper blocking the street.
We thought that was so weird, and
we kept walking and we began to think
someone had hit our car.
Well they did not hit our car, but got pretty close.
It was so close you could not fit your hand through it.
There was people standing around,
probably thinking why are these people taking
pictures of the accident.
We just kept thinking we have to blog about this.
Our car almost got clowed!

Needless to say we loved our trip. It was great to celebrate what God has done in our marriage and to dream about the future. We cannot wait to see what the Lord is going to do in our marriage over the next year and through out our life time. We are so thankful to also have friends and family to walk along side of us on this journey. Our God is so good!