Being Mrs. Jean: November 2013

Can you believe it? It's already been a year. It feels like yesterday ... yet it doesn't. Does that makes sense? I feel like David and I just started our life together. However, if I think too hard I start to remember everything that has come across our plate this year ... and it feels like forever.

Example? David and I hadn't even been married a month and we found out his mom had been diagnosed with cancer again. They even used the words no cancer patient wants to hear. Stage 4. I remember getting the news and thinking "this could change everything." Thanks to the grace of God, we sit here a year later knowing that he tumor markers are progressively getting smaller and smaller. Chemo is over with -- and instead we focus on maintaining the ground we've made. Will the cancer ever be gone? That we don't know. We do know though that God can take something bad and make good from it. It was during this time my husband's family grew stronger and walls that had been built started to break.

Another example? David had a major job change. Instead of a 9 to 5 and getting a paycheck every other week he decided to focus on freelance. It's a major test of faith. Not knowing if you'll have work this week or not. The first month was the hardest. Trusting that God wouldn't let us down and that we'd be able to survive with the income we did have. Again, like the other situation above, it made us stronger. David and I were finally able to spend more time together and have the marriage we envisioned. Before that it was just 3 hours a day, pop your head in the house to say hello and then run off to work. Believe me it sucked!

Anyways, enough time running down memory lane. How did we celebrate the milestone?? With Disney World of course. We had decided even before we got married that we wanted to go to Disney for our 1 year anniversary -- and not our honeymoon. We started saving right away and even booked the trip before we hit our 6 month mark. We spend an entire week at Disney. Stayed at a Disney resort ... never even stepped a foot of property until it was time to leave. Below are a few pictures of the week. Our actually anniversary day we were back in Nashville, but due to the long vacation spent most of the day sleeping. We managed to crawl out of bed to go to dinner at the Melting Pot that night.