and so october goes

i can't believe we are about to enter into the holiday season. i feel like it should still be summer. i think so much of my time was spent attending showers, and wedding planning, that the summer just slipped away. i already miss it. i REALLY miss hawaii :( i don't think summer ever ends there.

so, here we are, and october only has a week left! will and i have had an eventful, but wonderful month. first of all, october grants us an extra paycheck each. praise the Lord :) it also has meant extra visiting time with our family as an unexpected bonus, more of me cooking, seminary wives institute, new friends, and work pains for us both. the weather is absolutely beautiful here, and we have enjoyed taking walks in the late afternoon, then coming home, and curling up to a movie.

we are both really looking forward to thanksgiving, and are especially excited to celebrate it together for the first time as husband and wife. i don't know why the titles make it mean more, but somehow they do. i'm even more excited about our first CHRISTmas together, but i think will would be happy to skip it. i have big plans for him and that CHRISTmas tree i plan to have him help me decorate ;)

thanks to brother steve, my former pastor who officiated our wedding, we have also had the opportunity to minister to a young man here in louisville. though i can't give many details, i will say he is very much in need of all our prayers, as he is lost, and dealing with some very big lifestruggles. we just never know the hurt that is going on in other people's lives. it makes me all the more appreciative of what i have, and who i have it in. please be in prayer for will as he tries to share Christ's love with this young man.

we love and miss everyone soooooooooooo much. we praise God for health and happiness within our families! to all the cookeville bunch - get ready, cause we are :) thinking of you often . . .

oh, and by the way, i'm lately obsessed with pumpkin. so, if anyone has any good pumpkin recipes, please send them my way. will thanks you :)


a few pics from a visit from my parents . . .

all the joy, and all this love

when you find that person, the one you want to spend forever with, open your eyes to each new day, and lie down beside when it's over, don't let them get away. this past week has reminded me just how short our time on this earth is. it seems like everyday i hear another tragic story of life lost, and only when it was just beginning. i, myself, have had my own almost death at the young age of 17, and every year, around this time, i am taken back to that day, that moment, when i would have never known life with will. our paths would have never crossed, and all the joy, and all the love he has brought into my life would not have existed. i find this astounding because, truly, that is all it takes. one instant. one breath. we don't have the control, God does.