Do you ever feel like your life is changing very very fast and you're not in control, but thank goodness because you'd for sure mess it up? That's how I feel, so I'm glad I can trust God to take care of me and Jonah like he always has. Now I just have to focus on doing that, trusting. We found out some news about the osprey transition that makes me 100% uncertain of exactly what we'll be doing and where we'll be living for the next 5 or so years. That's why the title of this blog is so fitting! I feel like we are in the calm center of a big adventure whirling fast around us. We could hold our breath and jump into the rumors, plans and ideas and get swept up in them, or instead we could wait patiently in the center, learning more information until the storm dies down and we can clearly see our path.
So here we go, we're going to let go of the future and the temptation of planning out our next 5 years in the next five minutes and instead wait until the dust settles and we have our options in front of us. Now that you're thoroughly confused, let me help you out. The news is, I don't have any news, no details, no guarantees. So... I'll keep you updated!
Moving on to the point of this blog, let me talk about my wonderful family and my recent visit to the Great Smokey Mountains in North Carolina! The fall leaves were so colorful and vibrant and it was SO good to be home. I literally almost cried twice while going through customs at the Atlanta airport. If you ever find yourself putting our country down for whatever reason, just live somewhere else for atleast 6 months or so and you'll cry like a baby when your plane touches down stateside. Seeing my family made me so thankful for them. They really are my favorite people in the whole world, apart from my favorite person, Jonah : )
Here are their beautiful faces!
Now that I've bragged about them, I'll just post some pictures for you to see!
This is Zeno, my oldest brother, with his girlfriend Tiffany. Zeno is smart and tech-savvy and owns his own electronics web-based business called Boost, Inc. He's always been like my dad; it's nice to have protective older brothers.
This is Zachary, the middle child, with his wife Sarah. Zachary is a country boy through and through, him and Sarah must have set some kind of record for the number of black bears they killed this past hunting season. They eat a lot of bear meat! Zachary owns his own construction business. Zeno's witty and sarcastic, whereas Zach's goofy and silly like me, so between the two of them, especially with the two of them together, I was always entertained growing up.
This is my super cool Grandad. He is like the Don, the God Father of the family! haha, jk. But he is really the man of the hour. He keeps us entertained with his endless wealth of knowledge on random trivia. He has been so influential in our lives and we really don't deserve him.
I love this picture of my cousins, Chloe and Hannah. They are super fun to be around and always keep us laughing!
When I married Jonah, I inherited a whole other wonderful family! Ed, Norma, Jake and Gramps have been blessings in my life. What wasn't a blessing in my life was my old external hard drive that crashed right before moving here, so the only recent picture I have of Jonah's family is this one that Norma sent me in an email. But to give you a visual, here's Ed and Jonah's Gramps, Don, in front of Jonah's parent's house. They are very warm, hospitable people and they certainly know how to cook!
And this is my view of Cold Mountain from my home. I've never been to a more naturally beautiful place than where I'm from.
