A weekend in the Country!

What a relaxing weekend! I got to do exactly what i wanted to do! relax and hang out with my hubby. I took Jairo apple picking at an orchard about an hour and half away and it was so much fun. it was kina rainy and a little muddy but it was so picturesque and i loved every minute of it. The trees were starting to change colors, there was a nip in the air, the apples were gorgeous not to mention delicious, and i got to wear my beloved hiking boots (which you don't get much use out of here in the burbs). I just loved it! Next weekend we plan on visiting the worlds largest corn maze!!! how fesitive and fallish! and the weekend after that, we are going camping up at Wisconsin's Kettle Moraine State Park! This is what i need, some nature with my Jairo!

I am so frustrated! Doesn't it always seem that just when you think you're getting ahead, something major happens to set you back?

In switching jobs I've been blessed with a nice little raise that I was really excited about. Jairo and I currently live in a very small very basic one bedroom apartment, and since I've gotten a new job we've been making plans to move to something a little bigger with some conveniences like a dishwasher! anyways, its been in the works for a couple of months now.

Heres the stinker. Our little 1997 Saturn with only 98,000 miles on it decided to blow up last week. (piece of crap) so now we are stuck having to look for a new car and adding yet another car payment to our list of bills. Because of this impending car bill, we will now not be able to move in January, unless some kind of miracle happens. I am so frustrated!

Please Please be praying that our finances will work out or that at least I can find contentment in the hole we live in now.

antsy

oooh, i'm so antsy!
i've been working here at Washington Mutual for 3 weeks now, and i can not figure out for the life of me how i ended up here! who thought i'd be sitting at a desk staring at a computer for a living? not i, thats for sure. i can't get over how life changes and how totally unexpected our lives can actually be. if it were up to me i'd be out working at some far away camp, or living on a farm raising chickens for a living. i'd be sitting on my backporch staring out at the endless fields of wheat, or driving a beatup pick up to the lake on the weekends. but its not up to me and thats what kills me.

i know that i'm exactly where God wants me. I've got responsibilities and i know that its in God's will for me to honor those responsibilites and right now the only way i can do that is here. But i do have this longing feeling for space, for nature, for adventure that i just can't have here in the suburbs. the Lord put this in my heart, its a part of who He made me and I know that he can fufill that longing. Its just hard to know how he can fill that here in the city, and if I will ever get to live out in the open space that my heart so longs for

my girls

Hello to all my lovelies out there, of whom i miss terribly
Ladies, you have no idea how i miss you guys. Molly, Jaime, Kathleen, you guys are my rock. I'm so thankful to you, who have poured so much into me.

I love my husband, but I'd go crazy without you all to dish to. Its killing me that you are all so far away. I absolutely cannot wait until we can all get together again. Lets never ever stop being friends! love you!!!!