To my faithful readers:  I apologize for the long stint of no blogging.  You will understand when I describe the last 7 months of our lives since I last blogged.

Quick update:  Aria finished his teaching job at Sunset.  Now he's getting paid to sit around and do nothing this summer, which is awesome!   He's been spending some time getting ready for a summer class at DTS and helping get our new apartment all set up, among other things.  Aria starts Fall classes at DTS on August 23 and we're super excited!  We've been waiting for this stage of life for a long time now, and it's finally here.  Oh ya, so we moved to Mansfield, TX.  We're in a cute little apartment in the newer development area.  We moved out here to help Bryan start a new church plant.  Aria's been working on that a lot too.  Hoping to have a website soon, etc.  We've been meeting on Tuesday nights with our group for a while now to pray for the new church and talk about how we can be more missional in helping to grow God's church and bringing unbelievers to the Lord.  It's been awesome!

In other news, I have a job at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) on a Cardiothoracic Telemetry unit.  I am loving my job, feeling challenged, and having a great time.  Right now, we're in our internship so we're having classes twice a week and on the floor twice a week with a "clinical coach."  I feel like I'm learning so much, and really enjoying my work.  What a blessing! Of course, this means that I graduated and passed the NCLEX and I'm a Registered Nurse!  Yay!  So many years of work rewarded.

Of course during this stint of no blogging we did some traveling too.  In March we went to Israel with my mom and dad and we met Andrew and Kristin there (they flew up from Swaziland).  It was an AMAZING trip.  We saw so much and learned so much and got to spend time with my favorite family in the world.  I could never do the trip justice in one paragraph.  Maybe sometime I'll write a little post about the trip.  But for now - it was awesome.  We also went skiing in Crested Butte for spring break which was tons of fun.  No second degree sun burns for me this time!  In May, I had my nursing pinning and graduation.   That pretty much sums it up.

I know that wasn't a quick update really, but those are the big things that have happened to us this year so far.  Hopefully lots more to come!

We celebrated our one year anniversary last Sunday and to celebrate we went down to Fredericksburg, TX a quaint little town outside of Austin in the hill country.  It was really cute.  We stayed in a little B and B and explored the cute town.  We also went and hiked up Enchanted Rock to find some beautiful views.


Also for our one year anniversary we decided to make a new addition to our family.  Gotcha!  We got a kitten.  :)  He's an orange tabby and we named him Max.  He's really cute and loves to play and cuddle.


Keep reading for more updates.  We'll be doing this more frequently now that I'm out of school!  :)