ABC's of Me

ABC's of Me

I saw this on my sister's blog the other day and thought it was neat. I decided I would give it a try. 

ABC's of Me:

Age: 22

Bed size: Queen, evenually when we get into a house that we are going to stay in, I will have a king!

Chore that you hate: LAUNDRY!

Dogs: none, sooner rather than later I will be getting an english bulldog

Essential to start your day: brushing my teeth and taking off my itchy mascara that I feel asleep on the couch in ;)

Favorite Color: I really like purple, green, and grey

Gold or Silver: right now, i am more of a gold girl, but happy my wedding bands are silver

Height: 5'7''

Instruments you play: I took piano lessons growing  up, I wish I would have listened to my mom and stuck with them. ;( I also played the frnech horn in junior high school band. 

Job Title: Front Desk Attendant at a local gym

Kids: zero

Live:  Jackson, MO

Mother's Name: Lisa

Nicknames: I honestly don't really have any?

Overnight hospital stays: I am not sure if I have ever stayed over night? My mom might correct me on this one! ha.

Pet Peeves: This is a really weird one, don't judge me..haha. When someone will sit on a public toliet, but then turn around and kick the handle to flush. Does NOT make sense to me!

Quote from a movie: I do not know a lot of movies really, but ELF, Remember the Titans, and probably a few others I can't think of.

Right or Left Hand: Left

Siblings: Emily and Billy, I am the poor poor middle child ;)

Truth or Dare: dare. fo sho

Ultimate Vacation: Africa!!!!!

Vegetable you hate: Peas, by themselves. I will eat them if they are mixed in things though.

What Makes You Run Late: Staying in bed wayyy to long. What can I say, I love my sleep!

X-rays you've had- Too many to count! I was a VERY accident prone child. All my siblings were for that matter.

Yummy Food that you Make:  Taco Ring. (I left this the same as my sister), and also french bread pizzas!

Zoo Animal: Giraffe's and penguins

My second job.

Well this summer I kind of started a second job on accident, but really have came to love it! I had a good family friend who was getting married on a budget(who isn't!) and I thought I would help her out and offer to do her flowers for her as her gift since she was a close friend growing up and we all have to start somewhere right? Well I didn't realize how much work flowers really are! It is definitely not as easy as it looks but I really loved doing it! It all turned out really great, with a lot of help from my mom and sister, thank you! It was fun to actually put my degree to some use! I ended up helping my SIL with her wedding in July,also. Then one of my other good friends who was getting married in August asked me to help her too, I was also her matron of honor! Busy, busy, busy! Then, a few months ago I had someone approached me because they had heard I had picked up wedding flowers/ event planning and wanted to know if I was interested in helping them with their wedding, which is going to be in February! I was honored and never thought this was something I was going to be doing, but I love every second! It is for sure stressful at times, but totally worth it! I still have my job at the gym, but planning/decorating has always been my passion so it is fun having another job that I really enjoy! I am not a full-on business by any means but has kept be busy over the past few months! I will post pictures of all the events that I have done sometime soon. Right now I do not have my computer set up because we are in the process of moving, but I will show you for sure!
Hope you all have a great weekend! We will be watching the Cardinals game tonight, then MIZZOU tomorrow! Hope they both get a win, that would make my hubby a happy man :)

Erin

One year later....

Well, hello!
So this whole blogging the first year of marriage didn't really workout! I am determined this year to keep this darn thing up to date! I still have been reading blogs, just not posting on my own! Yesterday I worked all day and I was on pinterest ALL DAY. It is such an inspiring website. I have never been on it from a computer, only my phone so I never really got all that into it to be honest, but now that I got so familiar with it from a computer, I am in LOVE. Besides me being obsessed over a website, let me tell you what else has been going on in our lives!
*we moved out of our first home (which we currently rent out to a group of college boys) and into the home we were renovating. That house sold, and we are moving out next week...into my parents basement. I am excited, but equally as nervous. I am excited because we successfully flipped and sold another house. I am also excited to start the process all over again. There are days that I think why did I agree to all this moving, but every other day I am happy with it and love what we do. This time I packed very strategically and only unpacked the things that we needed, so it is way easier this time than the past two.(my husband sold another house a few months before we got married, so I helped him pack and move then as well.) I am definitely learning how to live simply and always being reminded that things are only things. I am very thankful that both of our parents live here, so we are lucky enough to have a place to stay during the transition stage of flipping, but I am nervous about moving in with my parents. Pete and I really like to have our "own space", so this will definitely be an adjustment for the both of us, but it will be fun for my family to really get to know Pete and his personality that I love so much.
*I am going to be an aunt again..They hopefully find out next week what the little squirt is going to be. I am super stoked, and pulling for a little girl :).
*I have learned that every piece of advice people give you on marriage really does come in handy. Even though when they give it to you, you think in your head, "yeah right, that doesn't pertain to us", it really does. Marriage is so fun. I am really happy that we waited until we were married before we lived together, it has been exciting, and a challenge at times, but looking back, I wouldn't want it any other way. ( I do not mean to offend anyone by saying that, personal choice.)
*I have really learned who my true friends are in the past year of my life. I don't mean this in a negative way at all, but marriage has really changed me and like I said above, you really don't think things are going to change until you are there and they do. Plus, most of my friends are graduated college now and we are all in a different stage of life than we were a year ago, I have made some really close friendships with people who I never thought would be someone I would confide in so much.
*All in all, I am really happy where we are in our life right now. God is so good and his blessings amaze me everyday! I am excited to see where he takes us in the next year of our lives!

Erin

Schedules

This past week I had a different work schedules because one of the girls had to nanny for a family and had to take the kids to school and couldn't open. I had to work 3 mornings at 5 am instead of 1, I also didn't work my late night. I am only telling you this because you will need this info for my story ;) I work at a gym, so the same people workout at the same times, everyday. I normally am only here on Thursday mornings, but when I was here on Tuesday and Wednesday, I had at least 5 people tell me "umm I am confused, is it Thursday already?" Then, I had my manger tell me that she had 3 people ask where I was on Tuesday when I wasn't at work until 8. I know the people are trying to be friendly, and mean no harm, but it also makes me think that complete strangers know my schedule. What if they did want to hurt me or something else along those lines. I know I live in a small town, but things can happen anywhere, to anyone. It is just a reminder for me to be aware of my surroundings. Are you aware of what's going on around you?!

Have a good one,
E

Catching Up.

Well, what's new I haven't posted for a few weeks so here I am to do a recap. Our life never slows down, but that is okay, I have come to terms with it, and at least we are making memories!..some good and some bad. Pete had bought a new suit a few weeks ago for his friends funeral and it already has a hole in the pocket so we decided to take it back since we paid over $200 for it. On our way to the mall he goes, "well I have gotten more use out of that suit in a month than I have ever gotten out of my old one; two funerals, two weddings, and a work event." Wow, we are busy people! Since I have blogged last, one of my uncles passed away. He was fighting with stage 4 throat and mouth cancer, and was only 56 years old. It is sad to see that happen, but we know he is in a better place and will not be in horrible pain, ever again.

 May is always an exciting month with schools getting out and people graduating. It has been 4 years since my friends and I have started college, therefore, a bunch of them graduated this weekend. I think that reality has really set in that we are adults now. I know I graduated in December, but it didn't feel real I guess because I still hung out with all my friends who are still going to class and living that "college life". Plus, I only work 2 days a week because my super awesome husband works hard for the monnnayyy. ;) But after yesterday, the majority of my close friends are finished. Two will be moving to New York, one next month and the other in September. The farthest that any of my close friends went for college was Mizzou, which is only 3 and a half hours away from me. So New York is a big step. I told my friend Lauren that this is summer when we take our "girls trip" it is going to be so different, so grown up. We are all going to be coming from all different places, taking different flights at different times. We all won't be flying together from the same airport! YIKES, adulthood! Honestly, I love it though. Maybe, selfishly, it is because I am they one that is married, or even in a relationship for that matter with a husband that works hard and is good at what he does, so I am lucky enough to only work part-time. I am not stressed about money, or my future or HAVING to have a job to survive. I thank God for this everyday. I am so blessed. No matter how bad "things" get or hard I think I have it, I just have to remember how blessed I am to have an awesome husband that loves me no matter what, an equally as awesome family, a roof over my head(even if that changes more often than normal..more to come), a job, food to eat, etc. I could go on and on about all the ways I am blessed, and that is what keeps me going, day in and day out.
 Have a great Sunday! Enjoy something you love!
E

Blessings

Last night when I was up late and couldn't sleep, I was looking at my normal blogs and Kellys Korner had wrote about a song she had heard that day, which was exactly what I needed...

"Blessings" - Laura Story

We pray for blessings

We pray for peace

Comfort for family, protection while we sleep

We pray for healing, for prosperity

We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering

All the while, You hear each spoken need

Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

‘Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You’re near

What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom

Your voice to hear

And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near

We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love

As if every promise from Your Word is not enough

All the while, You hear each desperate plea

And long that we'd have faith to believe

refrain

When friends betray us

When darkness seems to win

We know the pain reminds this heart

That this is not, this is not our home,

It's not our home

‘Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

And what if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You’re near

What if my greatest disappointments

Or the aching of this life

Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy

And what if trials of this life

The rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are Your mercies in disguise

God Is  Good.

It's Thursday!! Have a good one.

Erin

Purpose

Do you ever wonder why God put you on this earth? I have been praying hard lately, and asking what my purpose is here on earth. Now that I have graduated college and gotten married alot has changed for me and I feel like I need to do something else...what it is I am not sure. Then lately, as in the past year of my life I have been surrounded by nothing but tragedy and sadness. I am not writing this post to have anyone feel sorry for me or asking for comfort, I am writing it for myself, and for me to look back on and see what is really going on in my life. So with that said here are the few things that me and my family have been through in the past year..ish...in no certain order, just how I thought of them
-I lost my first grandparent on Halloween last year, unexpectedly
-My fiance at the time, aunt suddenly passed away.
-my sister lost one of her identical twins at birth
-my brother got re-ended by someone going 72 on the interstate, thankfully no one was hurt
-my uncle got diagnosed with stage 4 throat and mouth cancer
-my moms cousin committed suicide
-my aunt when through a divorce due to her husband cheating
-my husbands last grandparent passed away
-one of my husbands closest friends( a groomsman in our wedding) committed suicide
I am sure there is many more that I can not think of at the moment, but I think that will do considering those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head without stopping...ending with the last 2 which we found both out today. I have never seen my husband with more sadness and blankness in his face. When I was in 9th grade one of my moms best friends and one of the other mothers in my "families" committed suicide, at that moment, I couldn't understand. Watching that family get torn apart and never make it back has effected me in a way that was life-changing. Then again, 3 months ago when my moms cousin did the same thing, was life changing. Now, watching my husband suffer the way that I did years ago, a way that no words can describe, a way that hurts SO bad but there is no healing or comfort anyone can cure. Hurts me, a lot. Thinking about his wife who is 27 years old and having to try to heal and deal with this for the remainder of her life. Why? Why? The question that will never be answered... its just like when. does. it. stop? Is this how God intended on my life here on earth to be? Surrounded but complete tragedy constantly? Why does he believe I am so strong? We do have good days, and I know that and there are for sure more good than bad and I KNOW people have it way, way worse than me. BUT for me and my life right now it sucks, it really sucks. So now, I am clinging to the Lord like I never have before, I am looking for positives in every situation. I am forcing myself to open up to my husband about all things, holding nothing back. Every time something happens like this it is just one more wake up call for me. I am sure I will follow up on this more at another time but I needed to get this out while it was fresh on my mind. Right now, I need to go cuddle with the hubs.

love
Erin

Jesus replied, "You do not realise now what I am doing, but later you will understand."
John 13:7

“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid."
John 14:27