Girls Night!!!

We decided to have a girls night friday night with the 6 of us before I move and before Julie has her baby. We had such a great time! I can't remember the last time I have laughed that much! Not only are these girls absolutely hillarious, but they are so special to me and everytime we get to do something like this I just cherrish the time with them. I just can't get over what wonderful friends they are!

What every girl loves to do with her friends......eat ice cream!

Here we are on Laura's couch. We ate Wild Willy's pizza, got ice cream, and then spent the night at Laura's!

Family Time

This weekend I went with Andy and Julie to Van Wert to visit Dad and Mom. Grandma came too and we decided to get a couple pics outside after church. I thought they turned out really good so I wanted to post them!

Mom, Grandma, and Me

I love my Dad!

One Year Anniversary!!!

On our one year anniversary we were in the middle of our move so we couldnn't do anything real big. We just went out to eat at Olive Garden and we also finished getting the rest of the few small items moved into the garage for the movers to come get the next morning. A lot of people talk about how hard the first year of marriage can be, but I really wouldn't change any of it! God allowed us to experience a miracle as he healed Dan's back. After almost a year of back pain we decided to get up every morning and pray and spend time with the Lord together and God healed his back within just a few weeks. We also went through many times of laughter and many growing times too. We love each other more after the first year than we did when we got married! Now, as we embark on our new adventure to Colorado we are excited to see what else he has in store for us!

Taking a bite of our cake topper from our wedding. It was very dry and nasty so we threw it away after the first bite!

Dan in front of our first house.

Here I am the next morning in front of our garage. These are all of our belongings boxed up and ready for the movers to come get!

Going Away Party:(

Last Sunday our friends threw us a going away party and it was very bitter sweet. It was definitely an emotional day for us. Our church prayed for us Sunday morning to send us away with God's blessing and to support us. We are just blown away at the friendships we have made here. So very deep and intimate. We are excited when we think about going on an adventure that God is taking us on, but so very sad to be leaving the AWESOME life that God has given us here. So we have to look at it as we are taking those friendships and people we love with us and will have to continue to further them at a distance. At our party they had a glass container that everyone filled by writing us encouraging notes and letters. Wow, it was so incredibly hard and encouraging to read them all! God is so good and has blessed us with so many amazing people here. We pray that he continues to do that wherever we go! Thanks everyone for all you have done for us while we have been here!

These girls will be very sorely missed, but I know I will continue to have deep friendships with them all even being so far away.

Dan and all his guy friends playing basketball in the pool!
I just love this picture of Julie and Caleb!

These are my girls! Ashley and I with the girls in my sunday school class....they are all so sweet and I love their smiling faces!

Ashley, Ella, and Allison

My little buddy!

(Family) Ruth, Mom, Grandma, Denise, and Lloyd

One More Week!!!

Well in one week from today we will have our one year Anniversary and then Dan will leave the next day for Colorado. I think back a year ago to this week and we were crazy busy getting ready for our wedding in just one week. Now we are getting ready for our big move in just one week! God's timing just amazes me! As hard as this is to leave all of our friends/family, God is confirming to us more and more that we are in His will and this is where He is calling us for this season of our life! It's so exciting to watch God write our life story for us! I feel like He is going to use us in some huge ways to further his kingdom out there and I just can't wait to see what He has for us! What an adventure! This will also be a hard week though to let go of Dan and not see him for a month. It's just necessary, so that we can get all the little details worked out in both places. Pray for God to provide a job for me, and strength to be away from each other for that length of time.

MOVING

We have exciting news.....Dan got a teaching job!!! He was offered a high school social studies teaching position in Colorado Springs. This is very bitter sweet for us. We've been rooted in Toledo for such a long time and have made so many deep friendships while we've been here, and not to mention how much closer we have drawn to all my extended family here. There's lots of mixed emotions! We are so excited to see what God has in store for us. We love this area of Colorado. It's absolutely gorgeous and we can't wait to do something adventurous before we start to have kids. We've been praying a lot about this decision and it's just amazing how God has worked everything out! He's such a big God and He never ceases to amaze us! This will be a very BIG adjustment, so please be praying for us through all of this.

Emerine Family Reunion

We went to the Emerine family reunion this last weekend and had a great time! The weather turned out to be pretty good. We had cornhole tournaments, swimming, and lots of catching up with relatives we haven't got to see in a while!

Connor and Caleb playing with the water balloonsI wanted Dan and Bret to look at me so I could get a good picture, instead they both stuck their fingers in their noses.....so I guess that's the best I could get!

Everyone worn out from playing corn hole, just hanging out and chatting

Caleb just loves the water....we had so much fun with him that day!

Here's Maddy pushing Caleb around in the hippo