1 Whole Year

Today Geoff and I have been married for an entire year. Happy Anniversary Hun! I love you very much. It hasnt been the easiest year, but I wouldnt change a thing. You are a wonderful man with a kind heart. I thank Jesus that he blessed me with such an amazing man as my husband.

Until that Day

There will be a day when the burdens of this place will be no more, and we will see Jesus face to face

There will be a day when he will wipe away the tears,

but until that day, we will hold onto you always

I still believe....

Well, to start...this year of "an unexpected life" has definitely been one tough journey, probably the toughest journey of my whole life. There is only one other time in my life where I felt so completely lost, sad, rejected, and miserable. I have tried to avoid that situation, and in doing that I have realized that I made a whole lot of mistakes. I suppose you learn from your mistakes though.

The reason I wanted a write a post today is because I do still believe. I still believe in my God, even when I dont see how anything can be put back together, I do still believe that he can do it. I have felt so lost lately, and those close to may think im becoming bipolar. Im torn between my emotions and trying to do the right thing. But is following your heart the right thing? Because I can tell you that if I followed my heart right now, there would be plenty of people who would definitely say I was not doing the right thing.

Anyways, back to the reason I am writing this post. Life can really suck, but God will always be there. I dont believe that everything happens for a reason and I dont believe that God has every aspect of my life planned out, I believe he has given me free will. I also believe that having the fairy tale idea that everything is planned for you, is an easy way of not taking responsibility. I believe that all things can work together for good, but only if you let God work it together for good. Too many times I have been guilty of asking God for direction, but then was unwilling to actually listen. So I pray that I can have an open heart and and open mind to hear what my God has to say. I believe my God is always faithful, and when things go wrong and we blame God, its normally due to our unfaithfulness, its never because of his.

I dont know why I always have to be on my knees completely broken before I come to my loving God. But I do still believe that even though I dont deserve it, he will take me into his arms and pour out his unending grace into my life.

I love you my Lord. I am so thankful for your faithfullness, grace and unending perfect love.

Im back!

I have been away for far too long, but I am back now. Here is a picture of the pup Geoff and I are getting, Im so excited :)

He is a cross between a West Highland Terrior and a Shihtzu!

A little piece of Belfast....

Thats us....apartment 9!! We live in Barnetts Chase

I think this funny, its where you drop your mail :)

Here is the outside of Stormont, its like the Northern Ireland White House. I walk here alot. They have lots of trails and people take their dogs and they run around so I get my daily doggie intake :)

The actual building, I will get better pictures soon.

Along one of the trails

(this is for Hannah!!!) This is a cat that I have named Apples. He sits outside our window and tries to jump in. He is someone in the buidlings cat, but he seems to want to live with us. There are two other cats but he is the one that I see the most.

Here is another one...he wouldnt get very close. We will call him Pete :)

Just a few pictures :)

Here are just a few pictures of either things I really like or really hate about our apartment. I will post more once we have more things decorated. We are still searching for just the right things to make our stinky (literally)...(but we are working on this, its not our fault ;) ) apartment our home. Enjoy!!! Our cute canisters :)This is our TV stand from IKEA, Im still going to to more decorating to it, just havent decided what yet. But I like it. Plus I found Wood Wick Candles that are from West Virginia at a store here and I love them, just a little reminder of home :)

Im thinking about doing our kitchen in orange, what do you think? Geoff isnt too keen on this idea.

The devil washing/drying machine that I still have yet to master. It looks nice, I know, but its not.

This is our teapot that we got for a wedding gift that was equivalent to $75...WOW...I must say, it does make good tea though!