I totally dropped the ball.

I think I last blogged a few months ago, and still didn't finish posting about our Idaho trip. Since then our whole world has changed.

The boy's and I married John on September 20th. It was a very beautiful, simple, intimate wedding with a small audience. John and I really wanted a small wedding, something very simple and intimate. A wedding that wouldn't get crazy and out of hand. We had only 50 of our family and some friends (really only high school friends) in my parents backyard. Very nontraditional and informal. Family sat at tables while John and the boy's and I stood between two trees and expressed our love for each other. It was better than we could have imagined or planned. And best of all, it wasn't about us. It was about God's unfailing faithfulness in our lives. To take two broken individuals, two individuals who, despite our desires had failed marriages. God took that brokenness, and after proper healing and refining God allowed us to find each other. It really doesn't get any better than that. Well....it will and I'll let you know about that 20 years from now.

That was a whirlwind, but an unforgettable one at that. 
John and I visited the wine country for our honeymoon. Napa was beautiful. 

 

 We went wine tasting of course and came back with more wine than we know what to do with.

 This picture is my favorite from all our honeymoon pics, and as you know I took a lot! Vineyards have come to have such a greater meaning to me than just its association with wine. It's the beauty that lies within the vineyard; the planting, the pruning, the growth, the time, the nurturing it takes to produce this beauty. I inhaled the beauty as we drove through acres of vineyards. 

Since then, we've been very involved with family. As some of you know Johns dad suffered a stroke the weekend before our wedding and my mom was diagnosed with cancer the weekend after our wedding. So our joy was sandwiched between some heavy duty life changing events. Johns dad is doing better, and thanks be to God didn't have any major deficits. My mom had surgery and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. Life is happening and I am so glad I have a strong loving man by my side to experience it with. 

It's only been a couple months and slowly we have settled in our home here in Corona. We are very happy in our new neighborhood. K and J enjoy having kids next door to play with and we live close to a park that the boys love.

I do have to admit, being a wife and mother have exhausted me. The boy's were just babies when I became a single mom. Now, with growing boys and a husband, I do laundry daily, make three meals, pack lunches, do dry cleaning trips, maintain a home and still manage to look half decent by the end of the day. I have no living plants though, and that's NO lie. The boy's have adjusted well and call the weekend that I'm at work and they're with John "Dad's day". It's a day that they get to do fun boy stuff while mom's working hard. The boy's have enjoyed jumping into our beds in the morning only to cuddle John. They have adjusted well to sharing me, or so I'd like to think, I think they've  adjusted well to sharing John with me (hahaha!). We are still a family forming, day by day we become more tolerant, patient with one another and grow in love. 

Here are some odd and end pics I've taken over that past couple months. 

 Ta-Ta for now!