Catch up

We have had an amazing, but busy, holiday season.  Since we work in the textbook business the end of the semester gets to be pretty crazy for us.  We did something new this year and went to Memphis to spend Thanksgiving with my mom's side of the family rather than stay in town and see both of our families....and we won't be making that mistake again.  :D  My family can be, um, difficult while Matthew's family is much more relaxing.  I missed them this year.  A lot.

Our ride home in the rain

But all in all we did have a wonderful time and the next day my brother got his first deer. 

He was so excited.

Then things got really busy at work with finals and then a very big event occurred that is wonderful for our family:

Matthew graduated!

I am so proud of him!  He is the first person on both sides of his family to graduate with a Bachelor's degree.  We had a nice party to celebrate all of his accomplishments.  I couldn't be happier.  He hasn't found a job yet, but while helping a family friend with his cattle herd and working at the bookstore with me, it isn't a necessity.

After finals and graduation, Matthew and I went on a work trip to Nashville, TN.  We had a good time but were so ready to be home.  We both have gotten to be home bodies and cannot take too many nights away from our bed.

We also have a new addition to our home.

Our sweet baby cow with no name.

 At the farm that Matthew is helping with, one little calf somehow lost her momma so we have adopted her and are bottle feeding her.  I hate to say it but I am ready for her to go back.  It isn't like a real baby where you can take her with you and feed her when she is hungry, we have to be home at least three times a day to make sure that she is fed.  I didn't realize how 'free' we were, but I still enjoy her.

Christmas was really good.  It seems that there is an in-between time from when you are a kid to when you have a kid that Christmas loses a little of its magic.  This happened for me this year.  Christmas is my favorite holiday because it is an entire season of happiness and goodwill, but quite honestly this Christmas was very tough.  As we are still trying to get pregnant being around little ones was very hard.  A lot harder than I had imagined.  There were many tears but a lot more smiles.  I truly enjoyed myself and both of our families.  I am so thankful to have such a wonderful in-law family that I feel as if I grew up in it myself.  They are truly a blessing and I now that when God allows us to have a child I will be even more grateful for them.  But until them I will keep my head up and hope in my heart! 

Our Christmas tree

Nativity scene that I made as a little girl

Outside decorations

Our first year married ornament

Our stockings

Matthew and I with my siblings on Christmas morning

 

Matthew and Addie, "Barn Princess"

Old Soul

I have been told that I have an old soul.  And I have begun to believe it.  My wedding band, vintage style; wedding dress, complete 'vintage' lace; bedtime, before 9; clothing style, that of a middle-aged mother; want for Christmas, one of these:


The same thing that a friend of Mr. Price's mother-in-laws has requested.  Ha!  Here's to hoping I get one!  I want to make quilts and clothes and all kinds of fun, crafty things!

We have church directory pictures today so I of course was late to work since I had to look my best....and it was raining....and I had not much sleep last night....and I hate mornings. I am going to try to work more on that.

I also have to admit that I am a hypochondriac, a bad one.  Talk about lice, my head itches.  Some kids that we take care of have had the stomach virus this weekend.  Now their parents are sick and another child's parent is sick.  All of them were at our house Sunday and now I have been having stomach cramps and nauseous ever since.  Ugh, I hope it is just my mind!

The next BIG step

Mr. Price and I have decided to take the next step.  The big step.  The one that follows marriage.  THE baby carriage.  We have been trying for a couple months to no avail.  I am trying to keep my chin up and know that it wasn't going to happen instantaneously but in the back of my mind I thought that it would be so easy.  I am trying to remember this: 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.  Proverbs 3:5

I know it will happen and I know it will happen on His agenda and not ours but I can't help but get discouraged at times.  We have people that are in our family and around us who are not putting Him first, not getting married, not necessarily making the 'smartest' decisions with the children they already have and they are pregnant.  I know that it will be hard for them but I can't help but feel that Mr. Price and I have done everything in the 'right order' and have done the 'proper steps' and here we are yearning for a child.  

I keep telling myself that it will happen and then I will look back at this time and laugh but in the meantime I get jealous at looking at sweet babies.

In other exciting news, Addie (my late-in-life little sister) is turning 4!  I am so excited!  Her birthday is November 1st and so we are having a Halloween birthday party at our house.  I love this holiday and can't imagine doing anything better than celebrating this sweet girl's birthday.

At the Arkansas Traveler's baseball game this summer

Will and Addie this past Easter

Addie and I this summer

Playing in the laundry basket

A couple years ago...swinging her pet chicken

Last Halloween, cleaning out her pumpkin

Ready for the Valentine's Day Father/Daughter Dance

Happy Birthday Addison Gee!

 

Starting Anew

5 months, 1 week, and 4 days ago I married the love of my life. 

Mr. Price and I met exactly 5 years before that. 

I am so happy to have found not only a life partner but a best friend to be beside me.  Together we are working together to better our lives and the lives of our future children and our current children:

 Jake and Dude

 
We have made some big decisions lately, mainly me walking away from school.  (Quitting sounds like failure)  We both were in college, he graduates December 3rd and I was supposed to graduate in May.  Both being denied financial aid, me being offered a raise with benefits, we did what we had to do.  At times I feel bad because I was so close but yet have walked away; other times I feel so much better because I am no longer stressed.  With the raise and benefits we are going to be able to start a family sooner and more seriously plan for our future, so it has been nice.  I still plan to go back and finish, that is just put on the back burner for now.

"Give your burdens to the Lord and He will take care of you.  He will not permit the godly to slip and fall."  ps.55:22 

I recently was shown this verse and it could not have come into my life at a better time.  I keep going back to this verse as reassurance that everything will be okay.  Every time I read this I know without a doubt that everything is going to be okay.

With this blog, I am going to use it to a) get my thoughts out b) seek out new verses as a way to study the Bible more than I currently am and c) dictate the path that our family is on. 

Any thoughts and advice are welcome!