looking for a home...

we just rolled into golden and we definately want to live here. now we just have to find a place.

colorado bound...

we are colorado bound to look for jobs and a place to
live. if you read this please pray for us.

thanks!

my new husband talks in his sleep...

my new husband Dominick...


talks in his sleep.

having not lived with him before we got married this is something I have learned about him over the past 5 months.

I thought I would share 3 of my favorites time I have been woken up by his unconscious conversations.

1. after we had been married just a few weeks we went to visit my brother and sister-in-law in Colorado. we were sleeping on an air mattress on their living room floor and it was our last night before we made the drive home. I was sound asleep when I feel Dominick pushing me in my back. "are you trying to wake me up?" I ask him. he replies with a rather frustrated tone that I would ask such an obvious question, "YESSS!"

"what is it?" I grogily ponder.

"I don't think it's a big deal if those little girls get a tool out of the tool shed once in a while."

confused I ask for a repetition of his statement. again he is frustrated that I am not understanding the obviousness of what he is pointing out to me. he repeats himself,

"I SAID! I don think it's a big deal if those girls get a tool out of the tool shed once in a while!"

i'm trying to understand what you are talking about Nick, but I don't. I'm sorry.

this is when he sits up to explain it too me and begins to realize that he is not making sense and says, "nevermind." and lays back down.

the next morning I learn he was dreaming we had daughters and that I was being a little over protective.

2. about a month later I'm asleep when he wakes me starts tryig to wake me up.

"get up and look at this." he says.

this time I am a little more skeptical and so I ask, "are you sleeping? are you sure you are awake?"

again in the familiar frustrated tone, "no, I am awake, you need to look at this."

so I reluctantly sit up and ask, "what is it?"

he reaches across me at the white of my pillow sticking out of my red pillow case and makes a pinching motion, "look at theses worms." he says.

"what?!?!" I scream, which wakes him up enough to again say, "nevermind" and lay back down.

3. last night, 3:35 am, for some reason I'm lying awake when he jumps up. "it's ok baby, you were dreaming." I try to comfort him before the madness starts but he quickly replies, "I know. now I remember why we are sleeping over here instead of over there." he makes a motion toward the window with his head. then he starts reaching under our pillows. I had already put my head back on my pillow and tucked my hands under and I think, "ahh, he wants to hold my hand."

wrong.

I sit back up as he keeps searching under our pillows.

"I hid those matches under here."

over the last few months I have given up on trying to convince him he is sleeping and have played along instead.

"what kind of matches?"

"the little box kind." he answers.

"why did you hide them?"

this question required too much thought I guess because it snapped him out of it.

predictably, he replied, "nevermind." and he laid back down.

took him a minute to get back to sleep though because I was laughing too hard.




we have been married almost 6 months, aquired one dog and learned a ton about each other.

I know everyone who has been married for years and years just read that, rolled their eyes and thought, "honey, you don't even know the half of it."

but I will say, I love learning about him. I knew he was a patient man, but I have seen him be even more patient with his crazy wife.

I love that the only time he uses a frustrated tone with me is when he is asleep. I mean you can't fault people for things they do in their sleep.

he is also even funnier than I thought and I love getting to be the one that hears all of his jokes.

also we are moving to Colorado in about 4 weeks. we don't have jobs yet or a place to live. he's adveturous, and I love that.

4th of July

here are a few photos from our wonderful 4th of july weekend.


we enjoyed a delicious shrimp boil at the lake with some good friends. our friend Tina let us invite ourselves to her lake house and we were glad she did. we had a wonderful time sitting around chatting and watching fireworks.


after we came home for the lake we decided it was time for barley's first trip to the Ginger man. the g-man is one of our favorite places in fort worth, a quiet little pub with excellent patio seating and beer from around the world. dominick and I sat with our good friend Joshua an talked about Jesus and how we can't wait for Him to come and how we want to live in a world where Jesus reigns as king and everything is perfect and we can love Him and know Him in all His glory. (was that a run-on sentance?) anyway, that's what we did over a couple of good beers. I don't know everyone's opinion about this and I don't mean to offend but it seems that a lot of my really good conversations about Jesus happen over a beer.


here is barley with her uncle Joshua.

hope this post doesn't lose me any friends. hope you're all doing wonderfully.

a new puppy!!

we have a new puppy! her name is barley and we love her...most of the time.


I just downloaded a app for my phone so that I can blog from my phone. if it is as easy as it seems I hope it means I'll be blogging a lot more.

not sure how to start...

i've got a lot to say in this one but i will start with some honeymoon pictures...

here we are leaving for mexico!!! very excited but also really tired...


here is the view from our balcony...


here is my handsome husband...



we went whale watching, it was wonderful...


we also went snorkeling...

i took this from the boat, the water was so clear...


i took this picture of these rocks i found in the ocean.


i was standing on the beach, staring out at the ocean with the water washing over my feet overcome with the goodness of the Lord. i would pick up these rocks and think, you made these Lord, people pay lots of money to have their kitchen counters look like this and you just make it. they used to be giant rocks and one day they will be sand and that is just what you do.

it was one of those moments when the Lord's presence was so clear to me that it was almost too overwhelming...overwhelming and wonderful.

a few days before i got married a dear friend of mine, a lady i loved very much, went to be with Jesus. i have missed her and remembered her over the past few months and in the heart ache clung to the promises of our good Lord. i've prayed through tears knowing that the Lord does things for good and that He is trustworthy in all things, even the things He does that i don't understand at all and that honestly really make me angry.

thankfully this lesson began on the beach that day looking at the water and holding rocks in my hand. He is good and i know that by His grace.

on another note, we have officially been married 3 months tomorrow. it has been a wonderful, painful, Jesus-dependent 3 months. it turns out i am very selfish but thankfully my husband is full of grace. it really has been delightful. dominick is so funny and so in love with our Lord and it has been such a blessing to be his wife.

also i started working at a daycare. i don't love it everyday but i'm working on it. this is my main excuse for my blogging infrequency. if you are still checking it then i appreciate it and will try to blog with more regularity in the future.

love to all, especially those who live in pa and ar

i'm married now...

and now i can get to blogging because i don't have a wedding to plan.

so let's start the catch up process. i have a lot of blogs in my head that i will be getting out over the next few weeks but for now let's talk about the wedding.



simply, it was my favorite day ever. it was such a blessing to have so many people that we love and that love us there with us to celebrate. the ceremony went off without a hitch (that i know of), which was especially impressive since we had ten flower girls.



i mean, those are some cute girls and they all did a great job handing out daisies and tossing flowers.

here are a few more pics from the best day ever...

ceremony...


this was the part in the ceremony where our family's prayed for us...


so happy to finally be married...


finishing our first dance as man and wife...


then it was time to party and party we did!!



then it was time for us to leave and start our life together...



honeymoon pictures are coming soon. until then, let me tell you, i love married life. my husband (i love saying that) is wonderful. we laugh all the time and just have the best time. he is a blessing to be married to and everyday i thank the Lord for the gift he has given me in him.