2 Year Wedding Anniversary!!

Today is our 2 year wedding anniversary. It's been fun watching the clock today. 8am: I was getting my hair done 2 years ago. 12:30pm: I was stuck in traffic heading to the church building 2 years ago. 2:34pm the music started playing 2 years ago. 2:38pm I was walking down the aisle 2 years ago. 2:40pm I was saying my vows 2 years ago. 4:00pm I was ready to leave our reception to start our honeymoon 2 years ago. It's amazing how much has happened and how much has changed since we said "I do" 2 years ago. My sister has also gotten married, as well as quite a few of our friends. We have relocated to my hometown. We have bought our first home. We have had far more than our share of financial difficulties. But we have stayed focused on our faith. We knew when we got married that we were marrying our opposite, just about the only things we have in common are our love for all things tropical and our faith. I'm the free-spirited hippie, he's the straight-laced Republican, but we make it work and 99.9% of the time we have a lot of fun with our differences, they keep things interesting. So here's to 2 years of marriage and many more to come!


Colossians 3:12-17 "Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."

Phil. 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

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Health and Wellness

As a student of healthcare I believe I have a responsibility to make sure I am practicing what I preach. A general rule of health is that the larger you are the more health problems you have. So many problems can be fixed simply by losing weight. I, fortunately, have had no adverse health issues relating to my weight, however, as I am 80 pounds heavier than my height class's average I definitely need to do something now before I do start experiencing side effects. I have never been happy with my weight. I needed to loose 10 pounds to be where I wanted to be, but 10 pounds isn't much so I could loose that whenever I wanted, then the 10 turned to 20, 20 to 30, 30 to 40 and now here I am, 80 pounds overweight and getting extremely worried that my wedding ring is beginning to cut off the circulation to my finger. I have always lacked the dedication to do something about my weight, I've had a loving boyfriend, fiancé, and then husband telling me I was beautiful no matter what I weighed as I gained the last 40. But with the advent of potential necrosis of my ring finger I think it's about time I made the firefighters my husband works with jealous that he gets to come home to a hottie. If I am so unhappy, if I am so embarrassed by how I look, why pity myself for something I can fix, it's not rocket science, it's living a healthy lifestyle. I've got this, it's just not going to be easy and I am the only one to blame. I am going to fix the problem I created and I am going to own it! I am my only obstacle, no excuses!

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In the beginning...

I have tried time after time to get some sort of blog going, usually with specific topics in mind, but I've given up on that an am just going to be me. So here we are. We have no topic, just random thoughts about random experiences in my life that I think are relate-able. Follow if you choose, here I am, this is me.

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