I like to think life is good now a days! It was a little rocky and scary! I had no idea what was going to happen but who does?!?! Well surely not me! I just can't help but think wow God does work in mysterious ways!
Here's whats on my mind! Probably about a year and a half ago most of you would ask me hey what are you going to do when Blake leaves on his mission and my answer would consist of the same words just worded differently. "Oh you know, go to school, get my license, start working at a salon, and by that time he will be home and we will get married." Well my friends I was definitely in for a bumpy road! Boy did it not happen like that... ya maybe for the first couple of months it went that way, but after those couple of months, something happened that I did not have planned.... NOT AT ALL. (or did anyone else I know that knew me and Blake).
Well this boy entered my life and changed it tremendously!!! I know most of you know already but this boy is Mr Craig Gentry Shumway...*note* i never know what to call him because i call him Gentry but he calls himself Gentry sometimes... or sometimes he throws out the dang Craig card! anyways this is the new boy in my life... well new to you, not to me! :)
Here is a little background on the beginning of something wonderful! Well we met at a fireside, crazy i know, because if you know me I do not like going to those things, and most of the time I only go for dessert! :) Well if you know him he also doesn't like to go but for some reason he still went even tho there was only 10 min. left in the dang fireside... and for some reason i stayed even tho i was going to leave early because i was so dang bored! BUT............... i didn't! Anyways you know I was mingling like you do after those things while stuffing your face with yumminess! And my friend Lisa gave away her number to some weirdo and me and brandi were there bored wanting to leave! Well we were leaving and Mr Jason Jarvis, calls us over because he had a "QUESTION". Ya i think he forgot what his question was because A. he totally ignored us and B. well there is no b, he just called us over for nothing.... so this little boy names Gideon Maximous starts talking to us about some lame-o BROWNIE party that he wants us to attend because he didn't want to make the brownies himself. Yes yes girls i put up a fight and did NOT make him brownies. But he did leave with something special, yup my number! But i didn't give him my number no no no... he took my phone out of my sweater jacket opened it up, and didn't notice the missionary on my screen, and dialed his number and called his phone! Yelp............ I thought ya ya ya so he got my number but that doesn't mean i have to talk to him. YA RIGHT! That would be way to EASY! I made him realize he has to TRY to get what he WANTS! haha! Clearly i wasn't looking for any of this! I already had my life planned... but a part of me had to see what this guy had in him! So I went on a date with him and the rest is history........ haha just kidding! We have had the craziest realationship ever! I wouldn't change any of it tho! We joke and laugh and talk about how it should have never happened and how things worked out so much differently then previous relationships but we wouldn't change it for anything! It has helped us learn so much about each other, how to build a strong relationship, and how to care for others. Im so grateful for this, what some would call a "trial" but it has made me look at life in such a different way.
You never know whats going to happen... which I now love! Its fun to go through life not knowing......... sometimes! haha :)
Thanks for listening, the few people that will read this! :)
Sorry i don't have many pictures of us... they are all on his camera.. he has a water proof camera.. cool huh?!?!?! hahaha
This is in TEXAS, over the summer, acutally the 4th of July... can you tell?!?! I made him wear the blue shirt.... what a good sport! :) I was so sad that he left in April to go sell pest control that i convinced Brein and Kyle (his brother) to go with me to Texas to visit him! It was super fun because it was my very FIRST trip without a family member!! haha ya pathetic, i know! We went to NASA on the 4th because what better way to celebrate?!?! haha! :) my favorite trip thus far!!!
