Just days away.

So Sam and myself are just days away from our 12th wedding anniversary. I set and wonder what to get him, and he sets and tells me what NOT to get him. After your married for this long you think you know the person really well. WRONG!! They continue to change, their interest change, and once they have everything you get a little stumped. On the stories that I have been posting we are past Aleeyah and Averrie's birth. One thing I forgot to mention in there was the fact that in between Bethanie's death and having Aleeyah, both Sam and myself asked the Lord for forgiveness and became Christians. We began studying the bible, and praising God through all our tribulations. He continues to bless us today.

So in the years after Aleeyah and Averrie was born, things have been rather un-eventful. Besides raising to wild girls, praising God daily, building on to the house, Sam working ALOT there has been nothing. We took our first family vacation this last year to Branson, and loved it. We continue to go back again and again. We leave in 2 wks for another week on Table Rock Lake. I can't wait.

We have had our ups and downs in our marriage, but then again who don't? Who doesn't have those fights when one sleeps on the couch? Who doesn't say things that they don't mean, only to take them back quickly? Who doesn't, at the end of the day, wish things had gone differently? Then realize that God put you in this place for a reason? That is what love is all about, to live and learn, to love and smile. I look at my children and I thank God daily that he sent Sam my way. I know that he had a hand in us finally finding each other.

I will post pictures (if I get anything), of my gift and what I finally decide to get him. Prayerfully I have another 12 years to love this husband of mine, and if the Lord sees fit to take me I will go with a smile upon my face. Knowing that to love a person as much as I do my husband is to live a life of joy and peace!!!!