Recap from 2009 to today.

Somehow my blog managed to go untouched for four years.  So here's a short recap on all the important happenings of my life. In the fall of 2010 my sister married and so I moved in with four of my close friends into a split level home in urbandale.  The memories made there were awesome from picnics on the patio to wheelbarrow races in the yard.  It was never a dull moment. That fall I was also to begin dating my first real boyfriend.  It was pretty hard for me and so I broke it off with him in the spring as I felt unsure of the depths of my feelings for him.  That summer my heart tried to heal but we were involved in the same bible study and I couldn't avoid him or get him off my mind.  The jealousy bug struck whenever I saw him innocently interacting with other girls and my anxiety shot through the roof.  I began to run late at night to relieve stress and spent a lot of extra time pouring my feelings out to The Lord.  In July, Tyler asked me if there was any way we could get back together.  I knew I still had feelings for him so after some prayer and counsel we were back on the dating scene.  In November he proposed and in may of 2013 we were married. A year and one week later and we would meet our beautiful daughter Emmylou for the first time after a relatively short five hour labor.

It is unbelievable how much God has blessed my life! I have endless reasons to rejoice in Him.