Life in transition.

Evan and I have been married for 2 years, 3 months and 24 days. (And no, I didn't know that off the top of my head :) The last 2 years have gone by so quickly, yet so beautifully. Becoming a bride at 18 was not what I had planned out for myself, but when you meet a guy like mine, being with him every day sounds like the best thing ever...and it is. I made the best decision of my life to walk down the isle to Evan on a summer's day. People shamelessly voiced their doubts, their opinion, and their views of why we shouldn't have been married at 18 and 21 years old. Travel! Finances! College! Freedom! Date more people! You're to young! But my idea of a good life is doing all the things you love to do, with the person you love the most. Evan and I have had the most wonderful last 2 years together. We've grown, we've grown up, we've gone through a deployment, we've explored, we've traveled, we've had days of playing on the beach, we've had way to much frozen yogurt, we gained the most amazing friends from being in California, we've been on a mission trip together, we've crossed things off our bucket list, we've started a family...the list goes on and on.

I wouldn't change a thing. This life we have together is my favorite thing ever.

At the moment, we're transitioning. We spent the last 2 years in Oceanside, California as Evan was finishing up his last couple years in the Navy...and it was wonderful. Now that Evan is out of the Navy, we've made the trip back 'home' to be closer to family and a college of choice. Leaving California was one of the hardest moves I've/we've ever had to make. It was hard leaving "home" to come "home". Being back in Washington state, has been good yet very hard. Cali really is where we felt settled, and where we feel we fit in so very well. Right now, we don't feel like we fit here yet. Even in our new home that just moved into, there are still times where I feel like I'm just on vacation, and we are going back to the beach and sunshine soon. But we're not. Evan has started a new job with a security company, I am almost finished with MT school and Evan should hopefully be starting nursing school in January. Life is changing for us. It's unsettling at times and stressful, but we are enjoying this time together in a new adventure, with new circumstances and trust that God will carry us through, just like always. 

Now...onto baby things :)

For starters...

I've been tossing around the idea of starting a blog about our life together... I was unsure if I wanted to or not because blogging just seems so disconnected and impersonal to me sometimes, and I would rather share these stories in person with the friends and family around me. But, as we have moved away from California, we have friends that we can't so easily have face-to-face conversations with anymore, and I still want these dear people to be tuned into our life. So, here it is :)

I've done blogs before, but I always felt like I had to be deep, witty, serious, funny,  or spiritual and then leave you with a seriously intelligent sentence to make you think I was really smart or something. Because of that, I hated blogging! So, this blog will just be my thoughts, our journey, our excitement of a new little life, and us growing together as a family. I hope it puts a smile on your face. I hope this is a happy place to come, and that you enjoy watching our little family (and my belly) grow over these next few months and years!