Forgiveness

I've been thinking alot about forgiveness the past few months.

I've always thought that I was good at forgiving,

My cousin shaved my eyebrows off of my face the day before I started first grade. I started school that year with eyebrows that my artistic older sister drew on to my face. I was like "What? He did something wrong? It's okay"

My little brother cut my arm open with a pair of scissors when I was 9. I was like "Okay, he's just little, he didn't know any better."

My older sister dumped me off of the couch and onto a plate when I was 11, causing me to get my elbow cut open all the way down to the bone and need 13 stitches. I was like "Okay, she didn't mean to"

My college boyfriend (whom I thought I was going to marry) dumped me over the phone from 3000 miles away over Easter weekend, with no explanation. I was like "Ouch this hurts! but.... It's proabably better this way."

My Husband does little things that bother me almost EVERY SINGLE DAY, and I'm like "Okay, we grew up differently."

See what I mean? Now that is not to say that I came to those reactions when those things first happened. I am almost positive that all of those experiences came with tears, fear, anger, and proabably a little bit of hate. and those are by far not the WORST things I've gone through in my life. but at some point I have always been able to forgive.

Why has it been so hard lately?

Oh well, I'll figure it out-- Someday.

Oh My Life.

So, I guess that my goal of updating my blog every week was a little, ummm.... lofty. How about I start with once a month. or when important things happen? Or.... maybe just when I have time? Lol. Well, it's July, things are slowing down and I'm finding more time and less things to stress about. That makes things alot easier for me... and for Ryan. Apparently, I'm not a very pleasant person when I have alot of things to do all at once. Something about yelling.. "I JUST WANT YOU TO HELP ME!" and "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHY! JUST DO IT!" I don't know, I have no recollection of that, but I don't doubt that at some point I did yell that. lol. Part of learning how to deal with each other, I guess. All I know is that I am very blessed to have such a wonderful husband that would give me everything that I want if he could. That is understanding of me and my incredible mood swings. Anyway, Here's what we've been up too.

1) Ryan got a pell grant. I am so excited for this because due to the fact that he already had scholarships to school, this money will basically come straight to us. :) That means we'll be able to do number two! (Hahahahaha--- gross.)

2) Buy a car! :D some would say, "Why is that good? you don't need any of that debt" but we don't look at it that way. We look at it as "WE NEED TO BUILD CREDIT SO WE CAN BUY A HOUSE." And buying this car is going to help us get there! Speaking of living arrangements...

3) We have realized that our apartment is too small. So, in September, along with an obscenely large change check, and a car.... we will be putting in our 30 days notice at our complex and moving in to a duplex. :D Ready for the kicker? Our two bedroom one bathroom duplex with a larger kitchen and breakfast bar, is less expensive than our one bedroom, second floor apartment. :) Neadless to say, I'm excited. Our main goal was to be moved in all the way by Thanksgiving... so that'll be exciting.

4) We are about to have the two most adorable nephews ever. Ryan's sister, Asha, is due the beginning of August, and my sister, Susan, is due the beginning of October. We are both incredibly excited for them!

5) We have been married for a year. It has been a learning experience, for both of us, on alot of different levels, and I think all of the mooning over each other was over after the first month, but we both have come out of it better I think. We went to Wild River Country (A local water park) and Red Lobster for our anniversary. It was Ryan's first time ever eating at that restaurant, he liked it, and I have to say, the service was incredible. I don't usually ask for certain servers, but I would certainly ask for Sky again.

So there's our updates, so far.

June

Ah summer... when I was growing up, summer was always the season I looked forward to the most. Lazy Days, Sleeping In, Playing Outside, and best of all, No School! Now as an adult I think that summer is not my Least favorite season, but it certainly has lost it's number one spot. I'm SURE that part of it is because of this fact. There. Are. No. More. Lazy. Days. Let's talk about June for example, here's the things that are happening for the month.

5th-- Service Project with the Young Women
6th-- Teaching in Young Women
9th-- dance prep night
10-- Pre-Camp Hike... AND... My Mom's Birthday!
12th-- Family Birthday Party for my parents and I
14th-- My Birthday
15th-- Leave For Camp
16th-- Camp
17th-- Camp.... AND.... My Dad's Birthday!
18th-- Come home from Camp
19th-- Asha's Baby Shower AND My Aunts Anniversary Party in Pittsburgh
20th-- Father's Day
23rd-- Camp Awards Night
26th-- Adult Ward Party
27th-- One Year Anniversary
30th-- Missionary Zone Conference and Etiquette Dinner

Now honestly and truely, I enjoy and I am excited about all of the things on the above list. I just am thinking.... a mini vacation would be nice. Just 2 days. Please? 2 days in a row where I don't have to clean the apartment, or make dinner, or do anything. Is that too much to ask?

A New Beginning!

Hello! This blog is to chronicle, our life together and keep people in the loop. I've tried blogging with little-to-no success before, but I'm making a goal to update this blog at least once a week. This will usually be done by Cheryl, rarely (if ever) by Ryan. :) So that's what'll will happen. So a quick introduction.

Cheryl-- currently is a homemaker who spends A LOT of time on her calling as Young Women First Counselor (some would even say too much, but not her) She likes to go to the library and check out cookbooks so she can find new recipes to find. She loves finding new foods to try and new crafts to do. She enjoys scrapbooking, decoupaging, and painting, but if you ask her to sew, it's a big fat no. (mostly because her sewing machine hates her, and she's afraid of it eating her hand) lol. One of her favorite things to do is Interior Decorating, and she looks forward to the day when she has her own house she can paint and nail things to the wall in. :)

Ryan-- is a student at the University of Arkansas of Little Rock (where he also works) as a Construction Engineering Major. He is the Elders Quorum Secretary as well as an Assistant Stake Clerk. He works hard, but he loves going with Cheryl on Wednesday Nights to her mutual activities so he can play with the little kids that are always running around the building. He knows when and how to have fun when it's time. :)

Cheryl and Ryan-- were married on June 27th, 2009 in the Memphis Temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They both agree that it was one of the best days of their lives. They are both looking forward to buying a car, buying a house, and having a baby. ESPECIALLY having a baby. :)