In the past few years.....

I decided it would be very therapeutic for me to start blogging about my life.  Not that it's super interresting, but a way to keep friends and family informed and to hopefully bring encouragement to others who might face similar experiences along the way.

The past 7 years in a nutshell.......

David and I were married November 6, 2004.  Can't believe it will be 7 years this November!  He was in the Marine Corps and stationed at Camp Lejeune for a little over 4 years.  I moved down there after graduating college, which was a month after we were married.  He went on a 6 month deployment 4 months after we were married and then got out soon after.  We decided to stay in Jacksonville, NC for the next several years so he could finish school and looking back now, so God could establish a solid foundation in our marriage.  Being there by ourselves forced us to deal with issues that arised without running to family and running to everything that was familiar to us.  I beleive most all marriages go through this in the beginning stages.  Learning to establish healthy boundaries that will in the long run strengthen the foundation when the storms come.....because they definately come!  I am so grateful to have been involved in an awesome church down there (Rive of Life) to grow and learn what healthy leadership looked like.  Also, some of the friends we made there are so valuable to us.  And a shot out to my co-workers at OMH :)

In August 6, 2009 we welcomed our first child into the world.  Joel Nathan Thomas.  One of the biggest blessings in our lives.  I will post a Joel only post with pictures from that day up until now.  We felt it was time once David graduated from UNCW to move back home.  "Home" is Buffalo NY to both of us.  He got a job here with an alternative energy business that his father owns and so we moved back in July 2010.  A few months prior to moving back we realized I was pregnant with our second child.  Myah Joy Thomas was welcomed into the world on January 20, 2011.  We were a little surprised to find out that she was born with Down Syndrome.  I will post another blog on her and the journey we have gone through thus far.  She is a true joy and blessing to our family.

We are moving next week into a home we purchased in Tonawanda.  We are very excited to get our stuff out of storage and to have alot more space.  In NC they don't have basements and our house didn't have a garage or storage attick, so our closets were stuffed to the brim with stuff.  I am realizing how much "stuff" is really unnecessary.  We are trying to live more simply, realizing we take nothing with us when we leave here.

We are very happy to be living in Buffalo again near all of our family.  Our family rocks! 

I hope to be encouraged and to encourage others through this blog.  Sometimes life does not pan out the way we had hoped or even thought, but if our hearts are positioned right, then whatever God gives us, we can run with it and make the very best of the situation.