Just a little update...

It's been a while since I've gotten on here and written, oops! Life has been kinda LOCO the last couple months, seems like we're constantly on the go and doing something. I remember being busy in Nicaragua and when we'd get home from a long day of work, we'd knock our shoes off and plop on the couch and just rest for a while. I miss that, a lot. I miss getting up in the mornings wondering how my day was going to go, would I make it to the base without my heart rate racing for fear I'd get pulled over by the policemen who stand by the road stopping people to make sure they had the correct papers and everything, would I see the ladies out front of our Residential cooking away making the workers breakfast and their hands slapping those tortillas on the pan, I miss all the people standing along side the road waiting for the buses to stop and pick them up so they can go about their merry way, I miss looking to the right side of the road to admire all the lovely wood work I thought would look so cute in our house, I miss pulling into the base and walking in through the doors at all the new faces of team members who arrived the night before, wondering what's going to happen next, what will the food taste like, how is our day going to go, what will the people be like, and all the fun things that run through their heads. I miss going back into the kitchen and giving my awesome friends hugs every morning and saying "Buenos dias". I could go on and on about all the things I miss, probably the thing I miss the most is the people I got to know and love so much in the communities and the staff, ok so that's two things :) 

If you haven't figured it out yet, I miss Nicaragua, our second home. That's where the other part of my heart is and it will forever be there <3 

People have asked "how are you doing with being back? Are you adjusted yet?". I think slowly but surely I'm getting there, I mean it's a process right, everything isn't going to just come back, our lives are forever changed and we're different people now, so much is different and that's OK :) I'm having to remind myself a lot lately, it's OK, it's OK if I still get overwhelmed when going grocery shopping and there's a bazillion different choices of toothpaste, or Ranch dressings, and the list goes on and on......Yes, it's been 5 months now and I still get overwhelmed and that's OK. 


^ ^^^That's what I started to write in January and clearly I didn't finish it and clearly it's April now and A LOT has happened since I last visited my blog. In February Caleb and I got to go to Guatemala where our dear friends Austin & Jill live and are serving with SI there. It was a beautiful time and we're so blessed to have experienced all we did...

  
Today marks 3 years since we landed in Nicaragua "together" to live. I was thinking yesterday about how we were saying our last "see you laters" for a while, thinking about the emotions I was experiencing, wow! So crazy to think it's been 3 years now. To be honest, I wasn't sure how long we would live in Nicaragua, and how often I would get to see my loved ones, but we were SO BLESSED by a lot of visitors, both family and friends <3 <3 God provided and it was such a growing time for us both. If you would ask us if we'd do it all over again, we would definitely say yes, it's a life changing experience that we will forever be grateful for. 

Where am I ate now with this whole 'adjusting to being back?" I am in a much better spot, things aren't so overwhelming like they used to be, on April 26th, it will be 8 months of being back, it's SO hard to imagine it's been that long already, there's still a few things that we're trying to figure out, like managing our time together, with being farmers, it's rather difficult to find time for each other, so we're still working on that :) Good luck with planting around the corner right ;) Hahaha, but I've been helping a lot and I really enjoy it, I've been taking care of the pig chores, so that's been stinky, I mean fun :) 

Our youth group just got back from Nicaragua for a week and it's been so fun listening to their stories and hearing them talk about the people and knowing who it is and how much fun they had :) We even got a few treats from Nicaragua from our second family <3 So amazing!!!! We are so excited that they all got to go and experience it, a few second & third timers and a lot of firsts, so I've enjoyed seeing all their pictures <3 <3 


Some people have been wondering when we're going to start a family :) It's really a great question cause I wonder a lot too, but keep trusting God that His Timing is perfect. I recently went to the Doctor a few weeks ago and my new Doctor wanted to run some more labs, and a week later I got a call saying all the tests came back looking good, so there's a few more steps that I need to do and we'll see what happens after that. It's so hard being patient, you'd think after waiting so long, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but I guess not lol. God's timing is so perfect and yes waiting has been so hard,  an emotional roller coaster, but I know in the end, everything will be worth it <3 Psalm 37:4 <3 


Sorry it's been so long since I've shared, life is just so crazy and it's annoying sometimes because I told myself I wasn't going to be like this when we'd move back, but somehow that hasn't worked so well. Anyhow, hopefully I can do better at this updating :) 


Thanks for reading and caring <3      



 Just a view of my favorite pictures from Guatemala <3

This sweet lady, we met her in Colorado at MTI training and she's living in Guate as a missionary. So glad we ran into her. We love you Susan <3

Guatemala 2016

Caleb helping Meme in the AG & Vet site.

Walking around Antigua with some great peeps <3 Had to stop and get ice cream of course

So blessed to call her my friend <3

All dressed up for a wedding :)