Faith, Hope and Love….

So just in case some of you are wondering what is going on - I want to say there was a problem a problem bigger than anyone on this planet that was resolved through the power of prayer on many people’s parts. The only way this problem could have been solved was by God and Him alone - He is so awesome and great! So just in case you have not got it already some BIG prayers were answered and I am over the moon!

As always I am busy and trying to get everything done - so sorry I have not been commenting lately I am a little behind BUT have been saving all the posts in my Google Reader so I promise to get back to reading AND commenting again soon - but I want to be sure I am ready for the twins first…

I promise that I will be back soon….

For as long as I had wanted to get married (which was not until I was older) I wanted to get married on June 26th, when asked I could never explain it, I just wanted it. Fortunately, my amazing husband didn’t ask he just said if that is what you want then that you shall get - even though it was a Sunday. Yes, I was married on a Sunday. The day became even more special when I found out that one set of Aaron’s grandparents would have been married 50 years on June 26, 2005. But when that day rolled around there was one thing that I wanted to see - Aaron. Everyone will tell you I never cried one tear on that day but was VERY giddy and very much wanted to see my husband - to honor his only wish he didn’t see me that day until I walked down the aisle. Those who know me will laugh but the night before the wedding we enjoyed a trip to Cold Stone (yep ice cream on the night before my wedding), parted ways and didn’t see each other again until I walked with my Dad down the aisle toward Aaron.

How do I describe my husband - it is hard as he is all the things that I never thought I would find in a husband. He helps with everything, case in point this morning when I woke up he was stripping wall paper in the nursery. He knows I hate to grocery shop and he does almost all of the grocery shopping (and is even good at it); he used to do almost all of the cooking because I had an hour each way commute; if I am cleaning the house he pitches in and helps; I sort the laundry and put it away but he takes it up and down the flights of steps to do it and sooooo much more. The best thing about Aaron is he is my absolute best friend, I want to tell and show him things before others and we can spend a week on vacation and know when it needs to be just us or if we should do something alone. He understands girl time and is ok with me and my girlfriends having dinner and playing Wii until all hours of the night. We have so many inside jokes that we laugh all the time at home, and no matter how competitive I am when we play board games he is more than willing to go at it again until I win (he never lets me win and usually makes it more difficult for me to win) and the best thing about Aaron is that he gets me even when I switch gears in the middle of a sentence, he still is able to follow along usually! Aaron I love you more than anything in the world and I am so ready to start this journey of parenthood with you! (We started our official referral acceptance paperwork today!!!!!! By this time next week we will starting the final waiting stages!)

So I hope that you enjoyed our favorite picture from our day three years ago - never in a million years would either of us have guessed that this day would become so important to us and this date so etched as a part of us!

So I am going to get NOTHING and I mean NOTHING done this afternoon (and I had a list of things that I wanted to get done)….if you want to know why visit here:

http://twogiftsfromabove.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/surprise/

Yes you will need the password and no it is not the same as the one on this blog BUT if you leave a comment and ask I would be HAPPY as a lark to provide you with the password, provided I can verify you are who you say you are!!!!

I love to travel and having a spouse who loves to travel just seemed to be a must for me. I think of traveling to new places as an adventure, one I may never get to have again! So, for the first year Aaron and I knew each other we stuck with St. Louis and Chicago - neither too far away and we knew people in both places. When we got close to having been dating for a year, we decided that we needed to go somewhere fun where we both had never been - thus a trip to Memphis, TN in September 2004 and thus began our travel fun together - It was three years ago yesterday at about this time that Aaron and I had been on Maui, HI for about 12 hours and we were waiting for two separate planes to touch down with each carrying one of our families. We were going to be married in 3 days and we were enjoying Maui to the fullest before we spent the rest of the time with family (don’t get me wrong we loved seeing Maui with our families as well but when the count of people goes from 2 to 12 it gets a bit more difficult to do some things). After we were married we went to Kauai, HI and then back home again! In August of 2005 we went to Ok, Oklahoma - to pick up Nala, that trip was great! Then in March of 2006 we went off to Washington, DC together - it was Aaron’s first trip and just like visiting my second home for me! In the later part of 2006, we got to know Indianapolis, IN VERY well as that is where I received all of my infertility treatments. Then in late February early March 2007, we went to Anaheim, CA (and San Diego) for Aaron’s sister’s wedding and to see Disney and San Diego - I loved California! And then not that long ago we traveled to the Twin Cities in MN - and we loved that trip as well! I didn’t mention specifically all of our trips to Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati - as those are too numerous to count at this time! We have joked that we should keep a map with all of the states and countries we have been to together and see what we can get the count to before we die (which hopefully is not for a very long time).

So the other day I said to Aaron that I wanted one final weekend just the two of us in Chicago before the twins came home but that I was not sure how we would fit it in - he assures me that we will fit it in and we will get to see at least one Broadway show, eat at least two of our favorite restaurants and have one last window shop on Michigan Ave. - when he thinks we will do this I am not sure but I hope he is right! As this trip to Korea will have to count as our 2009 trip as I am guessing that we will not get down too quickly how to travel with two toddlers - though Korea will be our first foreign country together at least! (I am not even going to try to name all the places only one of us has been - that would take forever and both of us have been to other countries prior to meeting each other!) Oh yeah did I mention if Aaron passed his test - then we MAY also get to go to Seattle, WA this year - and that trip would be on his employer. Aaron would also get to go to Orlando, FL for some professional training and he is trying to figure out how he is going to make that trip without me - yeah NOT possible :)  - unless the twins are home and then he would be making BOTH trips by himself and I would be calling my mom or his mom, any long lost family member or the stranger down the street to help me with the twins while he was gone. Actually he says that if the twins are here he will wait until next year to get licensed as an associate - how sweet is that?

So I cannot wait to travel to Korea - and thinking back to what we were doing three years ago right now just makes me want to leave for Korea right now - I love traveling with my husband and I love to experience new things with him! What an amazing experience Korea will be with him (even if he wants NOTHING to do with being on a plane with me for 14 to 15 hours straight - he asked if we could sit on opposite ends of the plane, he knows I will get antsy - don’t sit still well, part of me thinks he is more worried about me on the plan than the twins)!