Two blog posts ago, I recapped a year in my life as of a year ago. So much has happened since then and I want to seriously start blogging again. I've missed this creative aspect of my life. These past few months have been long and difficult (as winters have been for me these past few years), but spring is approaching and I've found my spirits almost miraculously lifted. I'll most likely post a thing or two about that in the coming posts. Starting April 2, 2015 my new goal is to post once a day for the rest of the year (or maybe 365 days), we'll see how well I do. Hopefully, I'll be better at restarting this whole blogging thing than I am at keeping some other goals I've set for myself.
I haven't been super faithful about taking photos. Some days I'll take twenty-plus and other days I'll take minus-zero. That is something else I'm hoping this blog will help me with--reminding me to take more photos and document my life with my husband. Leading up to the wedding, I was busy planning then after the wedding, I found myself just wanting to enjoy married life without taking many photos after that I slowly found myself feeling worse and worse. Not wanting to take photos of me just laying around resting, I found that I would forget to take photos even during the holidays. I don't think I have a single photo from Thanksgiving or really any good ones from Christmas. This is going to have to change.
It's been a busy year. Here's all the things I've been doing since I last posted:
Skiing on my last family trip to copper mountain for a while
Learning on a trip to San Fran for a chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia conference with some sight seeing thrown into the mix
Remembering the 20th anniversary of the Flight 705 hijacking
Beer tasting in Memphis with my main man
Choosing a life together with my favorite youth pastor
Relaxing on the Smith Lake with a few family friends
Sailing in the crystal waters of the British Virgin Islands, best family vacation and first vacation ever to solely create on film photographs
Growing in Christ during a week retreat in Florida with some really amazing girls
Posing in front of Cassidy Carson's camera with my fiancé in Franklin, TN
Playing dress up in my wedding gown and attracting a thousand little bugs in my many layers of tulle
Planning a wedding with the help of my mom and a TON wonderful ladies (which includes but is not limited to Mona E. Dunlap Events, Deedra Stone Designs, Christine Ohrberg, Aunt Jeanie, and Cousin Kathy)
Marrying the love of my life
Celebrating our marriage with family and friends
Honeymooning in New Orleans and eating way too much yummy food
Moving into D's apartment and being asked to decorate to my heart's content
Turning into an old lady on year twenty-five of my life (and eating some yummy, birthday-sprinkled, homemade cinnamon rolls)
Rooting for the Rebs against the Dawgs (there also might have been some celebrating when we won)
Praying for strength and wisdom on the winter weekend trip with the youth
Knitting four Christmas stockings (and countless other projects, mainly a birthday shawl, finishing my sweater, and a huge blanket that has yet to be sewn together)
Worshipping the king who became baby and whose birth was a gift to us all; a gift of undeserved grace and mercy
Creating our own holiday traditions
Praising the Lord that D was born
Loving a married Valentine's Day and that D never hesitates at being my model
Playing in the snow with 2 puppies and a man who loves to embrace his inter-child
Experimenting with all the different types of film I can buy
Photographing all sorts of things on film and always anxiously awaiting the developed and scanned images
Enjoying over 6 months of marriage with joy and laughter and constantly seeing my sin and growing in my walk with Christ; I'm so thankful for the man who calls me his wife
Thanking the Lord for all the many blessings he has bestowed on us
Sending out our first married Christmas card
Toasting to a new year and all that it brings
Surviving an allergic reaction or two
Crafting in as many different mediums as possible
Trying to fight past the pain and fatigue and finally get a definite diagnosis
Jotting down ideas for an eventual novel, hopefully
Continuing to be a sporadic, but somewhat faithful pen pal (faithfully remembering to write back even if it's been about a month since I received the letter)
Reading and rereading some amazing novels
Today: Contemplating moving over to Wordpress or somewhere else. For some reason I've had quite a bit of trouble with this blog post today.
Title: "Love Letters" by The Lovebirds
Filmed by Kawa Amina & Kit Provided & Edited by A Bryan Photo
Labels: Adult Life, Birthday, Crafting, Love, Married Life, Travel, Vacation
