Well, we've been super busy over the past few month. We've had a few visitors, and now we are getting ready for our vacation to Florida & Disney World. It was so nice to have family in our house! After living overseas for 4 years, and having only 1 visitor it was long overdue. Even though we are still quite far from Texas, it is so much easier for people to fly over.
Our first visitors we're Brian's brother Aaron and his family. We got to meet our niece, Sadie, for the first time. She is absolutely adorable! It was so good for Brian to have Aaron around for some brotherly love, Cynthia is one of the best sister-in-laws I could ask for, and Kennedy loved having the company. You see, Uncle Aaron is a real artist, Kennedy is a budding artist, and those two could draw together for hours. Our main goal was to hang out & catch up. We did one touristy thing while they were here, but other than that we just relaxed. Its such a blessing to have awesome extended family! Our few days together will be cherished until we see them again.
Our next visitor is really great at spoiling little people with lots of play time, hugs, and treats. I'm sure its not hard to guess that Mimi came to visit. Mimi is Brian's mom who flew in for a week. We hadn't seen Mimi in almost 2 years, so she was getting to know Ms. Kennedy all over again. Kennedy did get spoiled with some dino pjs that I would have never bought, not to mention other things. Even Jameson was spoiled with several outfits from our day trip to the outlet mall. I always enjoy my time with Mimi, Ms. Debbie; our time together is always fun.
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Thursday Thoughts
(I'm really trying to get back into the blogging grove.)
As I'm putting laundry away, I'm thinking about how blessed our family is with everything that's happened to us over the past few months. Decisions that we made in the summer of 2009 were definitely God's work. I remember praying for His guidance on where we should move. Brian & I both wanted to stay in Europe for numerous reasons, but that wasn't transpiring. Our wants were obviously not what God had planned. We ended up with 2 choices that would allow Brian to be home for longer than a year, Korea or N. Carolina. Korea was in immediate "NO", and Ft. Bragg, NC, was a place Brian said he'd never bring his family to. If I couldn't be in Germany or San Antonio, I wanted to go to Virginia so badly due to friends & location. Ultimately, God "knew the plans He had for us"-Jer. 29:11 This is a verse most of us can quote, but I know I often only refer to it in times of trouble. In the mist of what we wanted God provided us more than we could imagine.
Here we are in Fayetteville, NC! We are together as a family! We have a wonderful 5 year old daughter, I'm 6 1/2 months pregnant, we have a nice house, being on the E. Coast provides great travel opportunities, and God has given Brian a new job as an instructor. This could have him home for 2 1/2 years; this is almost unheard of in the Army these days. God definitely knew what he was doing! This morning, I'm thanking Him for all of our blessings!
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