Reflection

Its been almost a year since we have made our trip out west. I have thought about it often and remebered my blog and im sad that i didnt jot more things down. I actually kind of miss it out there in a way. I guess its this lovely weather. Even late october and early november it was like the way it is now outside low 80's during the dead day. If i didnt have church or big family in my life that would definately be a place to consider living. Just a nice place all in all. Gald i had the opportunity to have a go at all that by myself. Ive always had help with anything and everything i have needed. Out there for a good while it was just me and jed and the kids. It was nice. Not saying that i dont like the help and didnt miss my other family but that time away was well needed. Since i have been back I feel like i ahve became maybe a little more organized and on top of my house cleaning game. lol  I pretty much only had the essentials out there in our town home and when i came back my house felt so junky.... still does lol but i did alot of cleaning out when i got back! I also remember coming home and the inside of my house seemed so short. the ceilings in the town home were really tall and mine arent at my house just normal height so it threw me off! but i can still remember coming in and all that familiarity just came flooding back. My parents and my gran were waiting for me on my porch and when they saw us they just screamed lol they were so happy i got kinda awkward but thats just me sometimes idk how to act when ppl act like that. But thinking back on it now just pulling up i felt so relieved i have tears in my eyes just thinking about it. Theres nothing like coming home. we left from NM in the afternoon when jed got off early from work. We barely stopped driving. he didnt even stop at a hotel. He was so ready to be home. Since we have been back we had an awesome christmas. jed had to go back out right before and has been back a few times since. Charlotte just turned one last month and taylor got glasses for his strabismus. I have a newfound love for cooking and making our house a home. Jed finally finished building his studio that he started right oafter charlotte was born. God also blessed his job and really helped him out by giving him an awesome raise. Since then things havent seemed so hard for us and for that im thankful. Its an answered prayer of mine. I have been working slowly on a church cookbook and im hopefully nearing the ending soon. it just feels good to get this all out of my head and down somewhere. noone will probably read this but it will be here when i want to reflect just like those posts i wrote when we lived in NM.
rebecca

The end of our stay

Well folks the time has come. It has flown by for me. I was scared it wouldnt but it did. Im laying here and can't go back to sleep. I dont know if its because im excited or what. When we first were coming out here I was nervous I would be homesick a good bit but to be honest with you all I havent hardly been at all. I mean don't get me wrong I have missed everyone but I wasn't homesick.  I owe that one to the lord. I normally don't handle change well. Ask anyone that knows me well, I cant hardly rearrange my furniture sometimes cause it stresses me out. Lol I know, so sad. I have done better here this past year but this trip was a HUGE change and I have to say, I did AWESOME.  Go me! I truly give God the credit because I know people were praying for us. And I want to thank any of you who thought of us, called, sent a text, or sent up a prayer for us. Because i know you did, I felt it. My kids have done so well too. I have gotten to spend good quality time with them that i wouldn't trade for anything and I have learned some valuable lessons out here just like I had hoped I would.  One day we were here at the house and Tay came up to me and said lets pray. It kinda caught me off guard but I said ok lets go pray. So we went in our closet and got on our knees.  You just don't even know how thankful I am for that. As I lay here in bed im teary eyed at the thought of it. Yesterday I started thinking of the needless worrying I have done here the past few months and then I started thinking of a couple of people that have truly needed Gods help here lately that I have heard of. I felt so guilty because I realized how good I actually have it. My mama told me whenever you feel like you don't have much you just grab them babies and love on them and then you'll realize how much you really do have. She was so right but i have so much more than that. So when I look at it like that I feel like a millionaire. A good husband who is such a hard worker.  Seriously he has worked 6 days a weeks and at least 10 hours a day sometimes 11 & 12 hours the majority of the time we have been out here. A loving family and a loving church family who has showed thier love to me since I have been gone and to top it all off my holy ghost. Just knowing this is the end of the trip has made me reflect back and think on good things.  A sister from grassy and her kids came out here to be with her husband who jed works with for the past few weeks so I have had company and so has Taylor.  Shes been a big help and im so grateful for her. Together we took out kids sledding at white sands national monument,  the farmers market at downtown , and to a few museums.  Taylor has haf such a blast! Ill try to do a picture post when I get home. The internet is terrible where we've stayed so I haven't messed with blogging cause it takes so long seems like. I can't wait to see yall soon!
Love
Becca

First Weekend

Friday night started our first weekend out here. We went out to eat and when i got out of the car and looked behind the restaurant, this was the view i saw......

 I was impressed! normally when i go to red lobster back at home i don't see a view like this!

 Anywho, we came back home and chilled and hit the hay pretty early cause we were all pooped! We woke up this morning and headed out to see some sights. Jed took us close to where he has been working to see an incredible view of some more awesome mountains. There was a place to stop out beside the road to look off  so we pulled off for a photo opp.. 

It was amazing! you could see for miles. As we were driving i couldn't help but think "lord you made all this!" I have been blessed to come across the country to see more of Gods beautiful creations. After our roadside stop we drove on post to the white sands monument to let tay see the rocketships! Afterwards we headed back close to where we are staying to get some grub because its lunchtime to our bama time bellies but it was only 10:00 here so we had to bum around a little until 11:00. Jed's friend suggested that we eat at a place called Farley's. If any of you are ever out this way you should give it a try. we had the green chile wontons as an appetizer and they were awesome. I wish i had some more right now! I could probably eat all eight of them . I had the quesadillas and jed had wings both were really good.  Here's the rest of our photos from today!

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becca

In the beginning.....

Hey Ya'll! I started this blog mainly so that my friends and family back home could keep with us while we are on this big adventure of ours! Here's a little background story on how it got started.

  About a month or so ago, my husband told me that he would more than likely being going to new mexico for six weeks. I didn't really know how to react. I didn't want to be away from him that long. I didn't want our children to be away from him that long! Tay is at the age where he misses his daddy and always asks about him and lottie dottie is only three months old so I was afraid she wouldn't even know him when he would return. O.K. now I want to be honest and admit something....... I am a huge mamas girl. There I said it! LOL No but really, I'm very close to my mama and my children are very close to my mama. I was worried about her (because I knew how badly she would miss us) I was worried about Tay (cause I knew how badly he would miss her) and I was worried about myself cause, of course, Id miss her too. When I went to her about it, did she beg me not to go? no. being the wonderful person she is, she urged me to jump at this opportunity. O.K. I'm gonna admit something else....... I am not a independent person. I really really wish I was though and daily I am getting there (it's a learning process, o.k.? ) She told me it would do me good and deep down I knew she was right. Jed and I had talked about me coming out a couple of weeks after he left for the trip but after that talk I told him I wanted to go the whole time. So the planning began! I started pinning things on pinterest for road trips and things to do around where we'd be staying. I started making lists upon lists and I started mentally preparing myself. It was time for me to be a big girl. I mean lets get real here I am 23 and I have two kids and I have been married for going on six years..... I think its time. So we got a rental car and we made the two day drive to new mexico. I'll admit I was a little nervous to make the cross country journey with two small children, one of them being an infant might I add, but it went surprisingly smooth. We made really good time and didn't really have any major problems. Jed's work paid for us to stay in a nice town home and i'm close to town where there's lots of shopping and good eating. We plan to have several outings and see lots of sights. Last night we went out to eat at a steakhouse after Jed's first day of work. When i crawled out of the backseat (i was giving lotti dottie a bottle) I was greeted by a slightly crazy Hispanic man who informed me he used to be in the armed services and was a Sargent or something like that. First he asked if i spoke English. Ha! kinda funny :-) then he started asking me for money (from what i could make out of his crazy rambling or if i had change for a dollar) I think he realized he scared me because when i started backing up he said he wasn't dangerous lol the car he was standing in front of was trying to back out but he was in there way i tried to tell him but i don't know if it fully registered. I think he had smoked one too many for him to understand much of anything. Jed had to give him a firm no before we went in to eat . So big girl lesson # 1; Don't talk to strangers. Especially the ones roaming around a steakhouse parking lot wearing an army jacket asking for money. To all my friends and family back home, i miss ya'll and ill be back before you know it! But I'm having a good time and enjoying myself!
See ya'll soon!
Rebecca
p.s. here's some pics from the trip

                                                    Thes trays from hobby lobby are great for road trips! Tay was able to play with pal dough while riding!

 Lottie dottie did this most of the trip

 Lots and lots of mountains out here! its absolutely beautiful!