livin. lovin. laughin.

WOW. craziness. a lot of moving around, a lot of visiting. a lot of me trying to figure out my life to some degree.

i'm just trying to think about what i want to do next. a masters in counseling? become a chiropractor? become a teacher? i don't know. money scares me. life scares me. or maybe american pressure and ideals scares me. i hate that you have to go into debt to do anything that this country deems acceptable.

luckily i have a very supportive husband. i also have an AMAZING God, who sometimes I just stink at trusting.

prayers for the journey of my life are much appreciated.

its been a while...

wow. so i've been kinda slacking in my blogging here lately. i guess summer will do that to you...spend more time outside doing things and less time in front of the computer shivering under a pile of blankets.

so our crazy travel heavy summer has begun.

we currently are in pittsburgh now. tom and jenine's wedding is this friday, and debo is one of the groomsmen. he will be gone with the boys from tomorrow afternoon on, which i think will be good for him to get some "man-time" with his good guy friends from college. i think the wedding will be a lot of fun, we'll get to see a lot of friends which i look forward too.

my mom and i have also been spending some good quality time together. we grabbed lunch at the cheescake factory yesterday and got ourselves petticures. we took a long walk, chatted non-stop, and just had a really nice time. *sigh* i love visiting my pittsburgh.

we'll be leaving here this upcoming sunday and then traveling 5 hrs to cinncinatti. debo's best man from our wedding is getting married the following saturday there, and debo is in that wedding. plus we are going to help debo's mom get packed all up as she is moving back out to philly/jersey area. then after the weekend as we see his mom off on her 12 hour journey, we're going to stop at the columbus zoo (debo and i love zoo's and animals!), before we make our way back to pittsburgh again.

we'll be there in time to celebrate my 23 b-day w/ my fam, and then the first two weeks of july we have tony mastris and becca's wedding, and then jenn reill and ron's wedding the following weekend. (at least it's all in the pittsburgh area!)

then we head to harmons, jamaica for two weeks at the end of july. we'll be there with the won by one missions organization.

then we fly back into pittsburgh, stay a couple days so i can see my cousin clare (who has left me for china most of the summer, and most of the time i'm in pittsburgh), and then we finally head back to indiana the last week of july, as debo's IWU RD training starts august 1.

crazy i know. it will be good i think though.

on a completely differnt note. debo and i just celebrated our 1 year anniversary on sunday. i can't believe it's been a year! life goes fast. we went to go see the movie UP together, and took a nice long walk, and then we had a delicious dinner w/ my family, and my mom had homemade chocolate cake to celebrate. it was lovely. this first year together has had a lot of challenges, a lot of transitions, and a lot of love. we're aiming for at least 49 more years together. hehehe.

from the picture vault: here's jon & i at my bridal shower in march '08

(surrounded by a bunch of my girl friends)