Adventures in the Lord

The last few weeks have gone by really quickly. My job and the workload has really increased and Nick has been at work late this past week finishing up some law enforcement training. I have so much I want to tell you all! It's funny...I have 2 or 3 drafts of posts that I have typed, but since I cannot find my camera at the moment, I do not have pictures to show you. I am saving those posts until I can get some pictures! In the mean-time here is a brief update: Nick and I have continued to do stuff to our house. Little by little, week by week, we hope to add to and make it feel more like what we want "home" to be. We went to the garden store and we got some greens! I love when Nick takes me there - I feel like such a queen, getting to pick out whatever I want :D I fell in love with this little 79 cent succulent . I put it on my desk where I work :) We placed the plants all around the house and then sat down on the couch. It is incredible how "at home" you feel ...

We have hung up some pictures around the house - so I took pictures of the pictures :) The pictures in these frames are from a map that Nick got off the Jarvis. Thank you Aubrie for our hanging baskets ( I love putting all colored fruits in there). Mmmm...I am addicted to Nick's smoothies! Our blender is awesome. The smoothies above are a grandma Hargrove creation - Pineapple, mint, a little buttermilk...oh man I would have them every afternoon if I could!  Thank you aunt Cristine for our awesome anchor placeholders! They welcomed Nick home. Thank you Julia for sending the "I Do" letters (she used these to decorate at our rehersal dinner). I had them set up as "I Do" on the table and within the first 2 days being home, Nick had moved them around, as you can see. It either needs a question mark at the end, or an exclamation mark with valley girl attitude ;) Apoligies for not posting more often. It has been interesting... when people ask how we are doing, I keep w...

I'm back!!!..... Well , I've been back for almost two weeks now. It is so good to be back home with my beautiful wife, and now furnished house. Life underway was hard, but full of adventures that I wouldn't trade for anything. The Lord has blessed me so much, he has taken me around the world to some pretty amazing places that not too many people get to see. Thank you everyone so much for all your prayers, there were days that I just knew that you were praying for me. It was a difficult three months, really only because I was away from Becky yet again. I can hang with a bunch of Sailors, thats the easy part, its the separation from my wife that gets me. In reality we have it easy. I could be deployed over in Iraq for more than a year, while getting shot at. my Cousin Daniel is deployed and his wife just had their little girl, he only gets to come back for one week. Talk about sacrifice!   The Lord is so good. He has blessed Becky and I above and beyond what we could have ev...