A house update

Well, I haven't said anything about the house stuff in a while. We are finially done with all the work at mom and dad's. Done with the perlins and the trusses! YAY!!! Last wednesday we bought all the stuff for the concrete. Hopefully today we will get to dig the holes and pour some concrete. :) exciting huh? It makes me happy. :)

~Hannah

Birthdays

I love Birthdays. They are so fun! Today is This^guys Birthday. He is turning 20! For his Birthday he wanted biscuits and Chocolate gravy. I am not very good at making any kind of gravy but chocolate gravy is even harder in my opinion. I made it anyway and He said it was good. :) Last night i made him steak, mashed potatoes, some more gravy, English peas, and crescent rolls, it was yummy! I also made him a chocolate cake with a moose with pink mittens....that's what he wanted. Haha i think he was kidding but that's what I put on his cake anyway! He loved it. He laughed and couldn't believe I remembered he had said he wanted it. Tonight Jordan is going with his papa and Reg and I think my Dad, to go eat fish. He loves fish and I don't so I'm glad he is going with papa. I am so thankful for Jordan. He is such a blessing to me. He is always there and he is the perfect husband. I love how he can make me laugh even when I'm having a hard day. Thank you Lord for another year with my man! Give me many more years! I LOVE you baby!! Happy happy birthday!!!!
Today is also our 5 month mark. Its been FIVE months!! Crazy huh?
~Hannah

Honeymoon pictures

At the Air port in Fort Smith.


In the first plane.


At the Dallas Airport.


At the hotel in Boston


The yummiest ice cream! In Boston waiting on our flight


Waiting...


Waiting some more...


In Portugal


Our donut and juice that cost $15!!


At Erica's House in Portugal

At a bull fight.

At the Hotel in Portugal

THE OCEAN!

Haha Jordan got cold

He has a magic touch with Malachi

We got rained on when we were sight seeing

At the Boston Airport on our way home

On our way home.

We had so much fun and learned a lot on our honeymoon! So many memories made!

~Hannah

wedding pictures

There you have it! :) these are some of my favorites.

~Hannah

Confessions

I have been debating with myself on weather or not to write about this. I finally decided to give a go at explaining what is on my mind. I named this post confessions because i am going to confess some things I'm not very proud of. Nothing horrible, just things i struggle with. This may be hard to understand what I'm trying to say, please bare with me. :)

I don't know if anybody is aware,but i have a terrible habit of comparing everything about myself to other people. I can't make it through a day without comparing something about myself. For example...I will see a girl on a commercial on TV and think, "man, why can't i look like that?" Or i will hear of somebody doing something like... playing the piano really well, and i immediately think "man, i wish i could do that, but i can't cause I'm not talented enough." This is a constant thing with me. I do it without really realizing that's what I'm doing. I do it like i breathe. It comes naturally to me. God has shown me that this is such a sad way to live my life. When I'm in this constant state of comparing then i lose my contentment with who God made me to be. I get in the oh pitiful me mode, and then I'm just in a bad mood and then i snap at the people i love the most. I've come to realize that it even runs deeper than that... when i compare myself it makes me feel bad, because I'm putting myself down, so to make myself feel a little better i think of something that i do like about myself and then put the person I'm comparing myself to down...like this..."well, my _______ is better than hers"... so now I'm being judgemental. So, not only have i lost my contentment by comparing...( or a better way to put it would be: being envious), I'm now being judgemental. Another thing is I'm really being prideful, because, to be honest i want to be better than i am....so i can feel good about myself...and be PROUD of myself. So, you see how this habit is so destructive to me, because it doesn't stop at one thing, it leads to another and another and well, you get the picture. In a nutshell it hinders me from serving God with the gifts He did give me. i lose sight of what is important in life, and that is serving God with a JOYFUL heart. it doesn't even matter what i look like or how good i am at doing things. God doesn't care about those superficial things, He cares about what our heart looks like! He wants us to realize that we are weak on our own. With that state of mind He can show Himself strong on our behalf! That brings Him glory. Bringing God glory is one of the best things i can do!! And the truth is that doesn't take a good looking and talented person! Praise GOD! So, now my struggle is stopping this habit. The only way i can think of how to do this is to find my joy in the LORD and not to even let my mind go to the place of compare mode. This is not easy. I have looked for a verse that speaks directly to this and compare isn't in the Bible that i have found. But there are these verses: Proverbs 31:30 "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." and Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord always; again i will say, rejoice" and Philippians 4:8 " Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things"
So, i know what i need to do, and i have some ammo for the battle ahead. Now, if you would pray for me. We can start this thing. I want so badly to get better about this. :)

~Hannah

2012

Hey! it is the first day of 2012 and i'm excited to see what this year has for us. A quick update on some things... Jordan finished the trusses for the house last Saturday!! YAY! praise the Lord!!! that took a long time! i am so proud of how hard Jordan has worked on all the house stuff. I didn't get any pictures of the trusses... i know i'm failing. :( haha... i think we can finilly start on the up part of the house. :)
on other notes we are having a good time being married. Life has been good. God is good and faithful. We are curently watching our new favorite show...24. yay us! oh and we got internet for Christmas! i can update my blog now!! i'm so excited!! oh and Joshua got us an Ipod! YEAH! i know! :) And we bought a laptop with our Christmas money. we are uptown now!! :) anyhow i'm going to go and enjoy my husband. :)

~me

I'm Back! :)

So it has been a while. I have a good reason though! I have no internet at my house. :) I'm at mom's right now and using her's. Sooo... Married life is WONDERFUL!! I love having our own little house. I love my husband. It is so fun to call him that. :)

So our lives consist of Work, Working on building our house, Church, and yep that's pretty much it. Exciting huh? :P

I'll try to update more often. No promises though. AND... i will upload Honeymoon pictures eventually. :)
Lovin' my life!
~me