I'm Going to Get Better at This!!!

So I started this blog almost three years ago and haven't been very consistent with it. AT ALL. I don't know if I ever will be, but I am going to try to do better. I think the reason for this is that I am somewhat of a private person and have a hard time putting personal stuff  "out there."

Today is my fifth anniversary. We have been together for eight years total. Matthew is my best friend. We have been through so much in our relationship, more than some go through in a lifetime. We are better for it. I think I will write a book one day. And now God has chosen to bless us with a child. I am so excited and humbled with this. I pray daily for our baby and will try to be be the best mom to take care of this precious person that God has put on loan to us.

Something else I have been thinking about lately: friends and family. I am so thankful for friends that I can pray with and for and that do the same for me. I am so thankful for my family. I love spending time with them.

The Lord is good all the time. I often sing an old hymn in my head: "Great is Thy Faithfulness! Great is Thy Faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see! All I have need of thy hand hath provided. Great is Thy Faithfulness, Lord unto me!"   

Deep thoughts

I have been thinking lately about how truly amazing the Lord is, and how I am here and exist and make it through each day. If it weren't for God, I wouldn't be able to make it. I would have no peace, no reassurance of a life hereafter, and no good earthly relationships. I have been reading a new devotional book over the past 10 days or so entitled A Call to Die. I know what you are thinking...what kind of book is that?!?! Well, it is a book that is about how we need to die to ourselves and our flesh daily so we can truly be alive in Christ. It presents some great scripture and applications and memory verses. One of the girls in the youth group at my church wanted to read it and asked me to read it with her. It is pretty amazing seeing young people fired up for Christ. I help out with the youth group at FBC, and last night at church they wanted to keep singing praise songs. How cool is that? It got me to thinking...am I always like that?

In other news, only 15 weeks left tell Matt comes home for good! YES!!!!!!  That is very exciting. We have so many fun trips planned for 2010. But while I'm waiting, I am still doing school work and hanging out with friends and family. One of my best friends, Danielle, and I are going to the Fox to see The Nutcracker! YAY! I've never seen a ballet or a musical before! I'm excited!  It is our little way of celebrating Christmas  together without the husbands. It should be fun! I'm so thankful for all my friends and family and church family. I am so blessed!

No Blog in FOREVER!!

Okay, so I am trying to get back into the blogging scene because I have been inspired by my friend, Danielle. Hopefully she will teach me a lot of new and cool things that I can add and do :-) Things are going great around these parts, and Matt is doing good. We had a great 15 day R & R together in October. Saying goodbye for the 2nd time was a lot harder than the first time, but I have gotten back into the grove.

I am still working on my Ed.s degree and will be done with that in May. I can't wait! That isn't the only thing I have to look forward to next year though. Matt will be home, and we will be building a new house!!!!! I am looking forward to what God has planned for us in the future!

Long time no blog

Wow, so it has been a while since I blogged. I guess you could say I got "blogged" down with everything that was going on in my life: school, work, hanging out with friends and family, etc. Life is good though. I am staying busy while Matt is preparing to go to Afghanistan. And I am finally going to get to see him for the first time in a few months before he leaves. Now, I have done this one other time, but we weren't married. I know this will be different, but I am so blessed to have such a good family, so many friends, and a good church family. I love hanging out with my new army ladies. They are all so awesome! And I am going to get a roomie while Matt is gone, Jenn. I am really excited about that. It should be fun. The puppies are doing great, but they miss Matt a lot. I know he misses them too. I can't wait to see Matthew!

This and That

Wow, it really has been a while since I've posted this time! Back to work and working on school stuff has kept us busy! We are so blessed to have good jobs and to be able to go to school. Sometimes we both get burned out with doing both, but we know it is for the best. We always strive to make time for our friends and family, however. It is hard to believe that Christmas is just around the corner! Where does the time go? The cold is here, and I don't deal well with the cold. I lose circulation in my fingers and toes if I get too cold, which is often. I hope I will survive when we go to Washington D.C after Christmas. I might have to get some extra warm clothes for the trip. I bet it is going to be so beautiful! Matt and I are almost done with our scuba diving training. We only have to do our final open water dive, and we will be finished. We are really excited, and we have worked hard for it. There is a lot going on in the Tyree household, that's for sure!

Family and other

It has been a while since my last post. Things have been crazy lately since Matt and I have both got back in the groove of a regular work schedule. We have been hanging out with our families a lot lately,too, which is always good. We have such a great time hanging out with both sides of the family. Our families are so important to us. I can't imagine what life would be like without each member. We don't just have our immediate families; we also have our extended church family, and we have such close friends that they are considered family as well. We are so blessed to have so many important people who love us and we love in return.

Old Days to New Days

Lately I've been thinking about high school and college days and how different things are now that I'm a responsible, married, adult with a career. It's weird. Where did the time go? Places have changed and I've changed, but one thing I try to keep constant is those friendships I had when I graduated from high school and college as well as new ones that I have made. I hung out with one of my best friends yesterday, and we ate lunch and then went and picked up dry cleaning as well as check on car and house insurance. I thought to myself, several years ago, we would eat lunch, go shopping, and go to a concert or something like that. Now we are doing grown up stuff when we hang out. I found it somewhat humorous. I mean it doesn't mean we don't ever do fun stuff like go to concerts or movies, but it is just different now. I've noticed the same thing with Matt. He talks with his friends about payments, school, careers, and other future stuff. Not the stuff we always used to talk about. I know that things change but sometimes it seems that even though they change some of them stay the same or are constant.