Here's What You've Missed...

The last several months have been so crazy-busy and full of many fun things, but also many difficult trials. Though, I have grown in various ways from each experience. I'll break it down for you as best as I can. In the first part of August, my 86 year old (biological) father had a mini stroke; he has had 4 mini strokes and has fallen 7 times in the past 2 years. I love both of my parents so very much, even though I haven't always been the best at showing or telling of that fact. It saddens me to the core whenever I think about them being in pain of any type or declining in health. In the middle of August my little chihuahua injured her neck somehow and got a huge gash in it that required a lot of stitches and a lot of healing time and TLC, so she stayed with my mom who could give here that love and protection during that time...but after about two months she was fully healed with all her fur grown back over the wound site and got to come home with me. So that's August, leading into September.
Now September to October... I am no longer unemployed, I have a fabulous job (since the first week of September) as an executive assistant to one of the Partners, and head of purchasing and receiving for a really great company in Orem called Equinox IT Services. I really am so blessed in so many ways to have this job, and I absolutely love every single person in that company. It can be hard to know how to interact with some of them at times (because I can be pretty skittish), but that just comes with the territory of meeting so many new people and learning their style and hoping to gain their approval. I hope to be with this company for many years. :) Towards the end of September, after many many prayers and tears, I made the decision to marry my best friend and love of my life, but as soon as we possibly could in order to insure that my dad would be able to walk me down the aisle. It was one of the toughest decisions of my life. I knew I wanted to marry Jordan, I knew I was going to be with him forever since early on in our dating each other...and it just kept getting stronger as time went on. We were both so excited and had been talking about marriage for quite some time. We had the goal for a temple marriage, but with my dad's health the way it was and my fear of losing him brought me to sincere thought and prayer and I told Jordan I wanted to get married as soon as we could possibly throw it together. He had no problem with this. Hahaha. So there we were...we had 30 days to pull it all together while we were both getting used to our new jobs and trying to find housing and do all that lovely stuff that people have to do when they decide to get married and make that next big step in life. I'll write a post about the engagement story some other time. ;) Alrighty, so October flew by and before I knew it I was standing across from Jordan on Saturday October 19th getting ready to say the biggest "I DO!" that I could ever say in my entire life...! I was so happy, nervous, excited, anxious, overjoyed, bewildered, and so much more! I'll also have to blog about that at another time, but man was it absolutely lovely and just so perfect. ;) October came and went and welcomed in November, and it was very fun yet stressful trying to get settled while Jordan was gone so much for Army duties and a business trip for work. I felt so alone...so confused (psychologically it was really hard to be newly married and see my husband coming and going all the time for extended periods of time). But thankfully those feelings were short-lived. Then came THANKSGIVING! It was so much fun!! My entire family was able to all get together at my parent's house, and we had tons of food and tons of fun! Goodness I love the holidays...! Stay tuned for the next blog entry...it requires special attention....