Good Bye 2009

WOW what a year it has been! This was quite a amazing year for Slate and I but also a BUSY one! We spent the months of January to May attending parties and showers for our big day then wed on May 16th! For the fall, we spent most of our time attending football games (Go REBELS!) and other friends weddings! Next thing we knew, it was Thanksgiving, then Christmas, and now close to New Year's Eve!

A Couple of Firsts this year:

1. We got married!!
2. Slate attended his first bible study
3. I started my first bible study
4. I rode a horse
5. I quail hunted
6. We moved in together
7. Celebrated our 1st Thanksgiving in Oxford
8. Celebrated Christmas Day together (everything use to be seperate until we were married :)
9. I started volunteering actively for a non profit!!
10. Slate participated in his 1st Polar Bear swim!


I hope to make this a tradition that we tell our "firsts" at the end of each year to look back and think of all the new things we did or tried that year!

Any big firsts for you guys? I would love to hear!

Same Different Kind As Me

Ok so a few months ago my Friend Veronica and I were out to lunch and she said " I want you to read this book I just finished, I think you would really like it." She ended up bringing it to bible study one night and I was still reading Facing Your Giants so I told myself I would read it next. Well of course I forgot and started reading another book but then this past week I was looking all around for a good book to start. I remembered the one she gave me so I dived in that next morning and Oh.my.gosh it was SO good! I couldn't put it down! I ended up reading the entire book in a day and a half! I cried a few times, I smiled a lot, I laughed a little, and most of all it left me wanting to be a better person. What made this book even more special is that its a TRUE STORY! Same Different Kind As Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore is a New York Times Best Seller as well so that should convince some of you that it's a great book!

This book will even strengthen your faith in God and how all things work together for the good of him. So if you are looking for a good book, check this one out, I really don't think you will be disappointed!