2 Years!

Of being on the marriage adventure.

With my best friend.

This year I spend our anniversary alone.

Though I'm not alone- he is just as sad about as I am.

And today he told me he finally gets to come home Friday!

What better anniversary gift than to hear your husband say he is coming home? 

Before when we were courting I always wanted to be with Isaiah.

I'm pretty crazy about him.

But we didn't get much time together, him being an hr away, but the times we did have were so special.

I'm thankful for my mom and mother in-law ( plus siblings) who made it possible for us to have a pure courtship.

Being married- I was so happy just to see him every day.

But then he is gone most of the summer commercial fishing in AK.

Having your spouse gone for long periods of time really makes you think about how you treat them when they are around and how much you want them back...how much you want them and would do anything to keep them close in your heart.

How precious Isaiah is to me.

Being alone could make me bitter or I could choose to draw closer to God.

Sometimes I slip and think "Why me, why does my husband have to be so far away."

But really I would rather have my sweet husband just they way he is than any other guy that would be here all year long.

Isaiah is kind, he never complains, he is creative and romantic.

He makes my life exciting.

He has the best taste in music- even when I make fun of his taste at time shhhh I really I like it.

He is not afraid of anything: trying new foods, new sports, going places spur of the moment.

We get along so well- and I'm going to make sure we stay friends for ever....that we always dance crazy in the living room, that we play, that we always kiss and pray before we go to sleep.

After something scary and hard happens...like being newlyweds living off a $15 a wk grocery budget or getting hit by a deer in a car we just bought debt free I think bad things happen to everyone it's how you react and how thankful I am to be married to someone who will pray with me in the hard times and hold me close and have me laughing again.

Isaiah really is the man of my dreams and he's making my dreams come true.

Laugh at me if you will but my dream is to have a godly family, be my husbands help-meet and raise up children to serve the Lord with character. I really believe that is my purpose- to invest my time in my family. Not in an outside job- I want to be the best in what I do and I know I can't be the best at my job and give my family my all.

I believe it is more important to please God with my life than to please others by being successful in their eyes. They may say- she is just a stay at mom...she has no life- she spends all her time on her family because she has nothing better to do.

They are right- I have nothing that should be more important to me than my family.

And the seed to having a beautiful flowering family is a God honoring marriage.

A Ring Upon Your Finger

 I grabbed the wrong hand at first.

 We made a solemn vow with our right hands.

2 weeks from today I will be celebrating 2 years of having Isaiah wear a wedding band that says his heart belongs to me.

17 wks down 23 to go!

Almost half way there-

3wks until we find out if it's a boy or a girl- (yes we are finding out)

I didn't think I'd be the type to want to know before hand but now that I've seen it I really want to know!

Isaiah has been back up in Alaska a little over two wks and should be back home for good good (I'm hoping) for the rest of the yr in 2 wks. He is purse seining now and loves it.

I was really excited that he got the opportunity to go!

So I finally got nights at work! Three 12 hr night shifts! Yay! It's my ideal job at the hospital- working in  the ER and hospital side and only 3 nights a wk so I get 4 days off YES!

Although I don't plan on working after I become a mother- I would enjoy working there again many years down the road when all my kids are grown up but that is a long ways off.

Hopefully I will have more time to write about my thoughts now instead of a quick update on life here every 2 months :)

"The Lord has been so good to me, I feel like traveling on!"

Fishing, Folly and Fry

Once there was a girl who want to hike to Cliff Lake.

She had heard how beautiful it was up there and that many fish could be caught.

So with her handsome prince as her guide they drove the blue stallion up a curvy dirt road

Fought off mosquitoes

Hiked up the beautiful narrow path

Searched for just the right spot 

And he prince caught her 3 cut throat and one big fat brown trout.

Victory!

But this story doesn't end here...

As fate would have it a terrible pointy beast wounded their blue stallion on the way back to the castle.

With trees blocking the signals we tried to send to a nearby castle 

They were left with each other and 10 miles to walk

But alas! One message got through! And the King came to rescue them.

They mended the blue stallion, rejoiced with friends, and had a very late fish fry.

The End

Cliff Lake July 27th, 2012

Baby on Board

Hello, I'm very pleased to announce that Isaiah and I are going to have a baby due January 27th!

When Isaiah and I got the pregnancy test we had to wait until morning for better results.

Well, I could hardly wait, 6am I popped out of bed!

I woke Isaiah up with my giggling of happiness and he shot out of bed to kiss me.

My Mom was the first one I called...then we both told my mother-inlaw. After that we were so excited we couldn't stop telling people.

Isaiah left for Alaska to go commercial fishing so I took my Mom to my first and second midwife

appointments. Isaiah is on his way home now so he will first see the picture of his baby when he gets home.

Last Sunday the baby was 12 wks- so this is how big he or she is.

Though I haven't been very sick praise God I have been reallly really tired.

So please pray that I will regain my energy as I enter into the 3rd trimester.

Bad Choices and Other Things I do.

Yesterday I decided after working so hard sitting on my butt using my brain as a bat against the computer that I would come home from work and eat junk. Yes, the half-marathon is in 6 weeks, and yes I was supposed to run 9 miles that evening but there I was eating baked fries with a ton of ketchup- of course this was after I ate 5 macadamen nut , caramel and chocolate clusters. What a pig!
Today I was a good girl- I only ate 2/3 of a water melon and thought "Oh yeah I can do this and not have to pee all day!". My boss actually complemented me on my work- she tells me I look pretty when I work in the business office and am wearing cute clothes and not scrubs. A 98 yr old patient told me a I was the sweetest girl she ever met and then proceeded to tell me how she loves what the church has done with the place. Another patient brought his dog with him to the ER- after driving there from his house, after he wrecked his motorcycle breaking ribs and dragging it home with a flat tire...yeah...don't know about this guy...but his dog was cute. There was a giant red bra in the break room at work- in a wal-mart bag....no one claimed it...but we all were a couple cups smaller...that made me laugh and a few other people too- see I work with weirdos too-
So I came home and ate a protein shake (yay healthy!) then ran my 9 miles from yesterday and had a relaxing time doing so. I ran off the stress and had to just focus on my breathing getting myself into a rhythm I closed my eyes and just listened to my feet hit the ground and it was really nice...yeah there were hills and it rained a little but the run as a whole was really nice.
I really glad God watches out for me- I mean I don't always to the right thing- and I'm kinda weird and he still loves me and He gives the best gifts- He gave me the best friend I could have on earth, Isaiah McGuffey. This week has been really wacky on us bc I've been working days and he works nights and he will be leaving in two weeks for Alaska to commercial fish for 8 weeks (wahhhhhh!) but he has bee such a sweetie- coming and having lunch with me or staying up a little later so we can visit- and listen to me talk about babies/kids/pregnancy/being a mom...wow he should get a crown in heaven for that because I think I have worn out the subject more than 2,000 times and he listens with a grin on his face.
So there Mom- I wrote. Thank you for making me.

Haven Your Heart

One of my sisters is doing something I did not expect her to do- she was so boy crazy- I was really worried about her that she would get her heart broken. Today I am very proud of her she is a warrior at keeping her heart safe.

My husband and I were talking late Saturday night on the subject of saving your heart and how the devil will try to sway your heart when you are young to use later when you're married and times are rough.

Sunday morning I was thinking about that so I went to the teen class room and wrote "Save your heart for your future spouse!" on their marker board.

You may think this isn't important or I'm just being silly-but it is and I'm not if you want to have a good marriage you need to give your spouse your heart.

Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Keep means to protect, guard, watch after-

Do you let your heart slip away on a crush that becomes something more.

Is your heart hanging on the every word of someone. Does your heart jump at the call or text of him or her. Does it pound in your ears when you see them?

You may not think this is a big deal until you are in a fight with your spouse and you remember how wonderful it was with so and so or your sugar had too much sugar and doesn't look as great as that crush in high school does now.

At the age of 13 I gave my emotional heart to the Lord and told Him I never wanted to date. I wanted to keep my heart safe until my husband was ready to receive it. And boy was he glad that I did. I don't know how many times we thank each other for saving our first kisses for each other. Isaiahs' hand is the only one I've ever held. He saved all his "I'm so in love with you!" looks for me.

Marriage is meant to be a once in a lifetime thing- why aren't young adults preparing for it? Why aren't they encouraged to save their heart?