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!