The theme of 2012 in my life has been "new".
Everything... almost every little aspect of my life has become something new. And most all of it is a perfect and beautiful kind of new. :)
The beginning of this year was rough. Losing my Memaw and then my Nana November of 2011 completely tore my family apart. It's the hardest loss any of us have ever had to face, and I truly lost more than I can even say in the friendship and the love that I had in them. Adjusting to that, and to that hole in my life was hard, and still is hard some days. Now, I have been given a peace in God that I never imagined I would have... I think of my precious Nana and my Memaw and I picture them dancing with Jesus and Claude and Pepaw, and I can't be upset. I feel jealous, and anxious and I can't wait to see them all again. My parents deciding to divorce was another big smack. I stayed mad a lot about what had happened between them, and I have had to learn to overcome that anger and I have truly forgiven them and everything that has happened in their lives. They are both so happy now, and that make me happier than anyone could know. I have also gained some amazing family through this bad situation in Mark and his family and Retta and hers. If I could have told myself the blessing that these people would be in my life one year ago, I would have never worried a single second about anything that was to come. Truthfully, my family has faced all of everything in this past year hand-in-hand and that has made us that much stronger. I am thankful for all of it, knowing that it is all in God's plan, and that everything that has happened has been in his perfect timing for the good of those who love Him. And oh how I love Him!
Now, for the good! Haha in May I finished up nursing school and graduated from Gardner-Webb University. It was such a long hard road to getting that diploma, and I couldn't have possibly done any of it without my family and Brandon constantly by my side to support me. I have since gotten a job at the Life Care Center of Hendersonville I have both loved and hated my job a million times each there, and I know that God has put me there for a special certain reason. I am trusting him completely with my career, simply because I wanted to be a nurse all along to serve people and to show them His amazing love.
June 11th marked a year that I had been engaged to the man of my dreams... and oh how I thought I loved him then! On September 8th, we had the most perfect wedding in our favorite little getaway town. It was beautiful, simple, and exactly how I had always dreamed it would be- it was all about our love, I felt beautiful in my amazing dress, and we were surrounded by love. Our honeymoon flew by... but it was perfect. I won't ever forget arriving at the cabin to the most beautiful bouquet of roses from Brandon as a surprise, the nights spent in the hot tub just talking about every little thing we could think of, the fun things we did like Dollywood, the Titanic museum, all the dinner shows... every bit of it felt like a fairy tale. Our cabin in Pigeon Forge was the perfect place with a private hot tub, pool, pool table, and everything all nestled completely away from the rest of the world where we got to sit back and really enjoy each other. If I could go back and live that week a million times, I would. We plan on doing the same thing for our Anniversary this year, and I'm already so excited I can't stand it! Haha Since we have gotten back from our honeymoon, our life has been so amazingly beautiful. I knew then that God had set us each aside for each other, but it has become even more apparent to me now. We just simply enjoy each other so much. Brandon makes me a better person, and he fills in all the little gaps I have in almost every aspect of my life. I love our daily adventures... from little things like grocery outings to adopting our first baby-boy, a Standard Poodle named Fisher. We both just love to have fun, and that's one of the greatest things he adds to my life! We are creating our perfect little family, and God is blessing us more than either of us could have ever even dreamed possible. I am so happy that I can say honestly that I do fall more in love with Brandon every day.
I am so excited for what is to come in 2013! Brandon and I have huge dreams for our little family, I have the most amazing and incredible parents and siblings there to back me every step of the way, I'm trusting God completely to use me in my career as a nurse, I have incredible friends who year-after-year are always there for me, and about a million more things are just waiting on the cusp of this coming year!
I want to make a resolution for this coming year to blog once weekly. It seems in the past that when I've tried to post every day or every other day I never get it done. So I am going to take time out of each Monday (since I stay up late to start my nights on Tuesday night) to blog some kind of blog or another... whether it's short, long, whatever. Haha! :)
So here's to 2013... may you be as good and 10 times better than the year before you! :D
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