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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Road Life

It's three thirty on a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon. I imagine most everyone is relaxing, doing chores around the house, catching up from another busy week of life. This morning we woke up in San Luis Obispo and now we are half way to Parker, Arizona. The northern coast is a Gem... A beautiful, misty illustrious gem. We so much enjoyed our time exploring, walking with the sand beneath our feet, feeling the cool ocean breeze on our skin.

But after a whole summer of no "summer" we have been craving sun shine. Like hot sweaty pure sunshine. So being that our house is on wheels and having no time constraints we left this morning heading east to the Colorado river.

This is the beauty of life on the road. Plans are never really plans. In an instant or a change of heart you can switch directions and drive to wherever your heart desires. Even if it's an extra 300 miles out of your way just to soak up a couple rays.

I am giggling right now thinking to myself... Wow I have been unemployed for five weeks now. I feel almost guilty. I have thoughts of how we are going to make ends meet... Did I save enough money. Are we crazy? I mean who just takes five weeks off work?!

Then I smile bigger. I remember now that we worked really hard for this. Four years ago Jordan and I payed off $20,000.00 of debt in one year. We had only one credit card left after that. This summer we were incredibly frugal and Jordan worked extremely hard to get his online company's new website up and running- because of this we paid off our last credit card. It was hard this summer. We only ate out 7 times the entire four months in Montana. We only went out for drinks a few times. I planned meals for two to three weeks at a time to save money on food. We pinched every penny between saving for our next trip and becoming debt free.

And now....We owe nothing. To no body. Our overhead a month is less than $150.

So five weeks into our little vacation I sit here with a big smile on my face. I know that our hard work and discipline with our finances pays off in big ways. I know that even because our house is smaller than most and we don't have a piece of land to our name we are ahead of most by being debt free at ages 26 and 27. And more than anything I realize that I am so beyond grateful to our God who has given us everything we need at the exact time we need it. We are amazed and extremely thankful for the continual blessings he pours upon us.

I am excited to get back to work next week and to see my family and friends. But first, I am going to go soak up that vitamin D with the love of my life and enjoy the road life.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Redwoods

We drove all through the different groves of redwoods, starting in Crescent City down through the Avenue of the Giants.

I don't really know if there are words to describe them. I remember the first ones I saw I became speechless. My mind couldn't grasp their hugeness. Then as we continued to explore and walk around through the groves I got lost in another world. You aren't sure if this is actually real life. And you're always looking over your shoulder to see if a T-Rex might just jump out from behind one of these giants. You know he must be lurking around this mystical place.....

There are ferns everywhere. Perfectly green and perfectly placed to continue this journey into a magical adventure. The drops of sunlight peering through the tree tops add beams of light shooting across this dark and beautiful world. The air smells so fresh and alive you can taste it. And when you wrap your arms around one of these giants you realize it might take ten of you to get to the other side. I stretch my head as high as it can go and look upwards to see that the tops of these trees are no where to be found.

What is this place??

Certain times you're almost ready for the trees to come alive and tell you stories of all the ages....

And then you're afraid if you even blink this whole place would disappear.... So you stare long and hard, awestruck at one of the most amazing things you will ever see

Friday, October 18, 2013

He's 27!!!

My sweet Love,

I look at this picture above and my heart only smiles. You were 13 and I was 12.... that's the first time I laid eyes on you. I met my husband before I became a woman and before your voice was finished changing. How crazy is that?

How crazy is that I have loved you for more than half of my life?

How is it that you stole my heart so long ago?

I wrote you this note right after my 17th birthday,

"well jord, its just one of those days. These last couple of days have been good and fun but just not quite fulfilled! And especially today, i just kinda MISS YOU! just hearing your sleepy voice in the mornings, or hear ya whine about school, or hear your cute laugh, or hear ya smile (the good one)..............just know i am thinkin about ya lots and i am hoping this will be a good relaxing trip for ya. you're the cutest..............~mj 10/9/2004"

All I dreamed of at that time was to hear your sleepy voice every morning for the rest of my life or hear you whine about irrelevant things and so I could try to cheer you up... or maybe just hear you giggle or give me that flirty little smile. You know that one that makes my knees shake and heart race. That was nine years ago. And now my love you are 27 and I am 26 and we have been doing this for almost four years now. My dreams of forever, my teenage wish, my hopes of my future came true. I get to hear your sleepy voice every morning, I listen to you whine about irrelevant things and listen to you laugh. I get to hear you call me beautiful and give me that flirty little smile. Not all days are rainbows and butterflies baby, but it's pretty close. You are my ONLY ONE- always. And I am forever thankful.

I am grateful for your 26th year of life and all things you got to experience and check off your bucket list. These are the memories that we are going to laugh about for our life time. And now that you made it past your 26th year, you better start banking on growing old with me baby.(sorry but now your stuck! until you become a crazy old rock man)

I want to sit on the porch at the ranch when we are 80 in our rocking chairs to watch a storm roll in and listen to you ramble about some crazy person you met or a rock you found.... I want to make more crazy memories and I want to love you forever.

Thank you for your patience with me, your hard work with SurgicalFibers and helping us to become COMPLETELY debt free, thank you for being always funny guy, thank you for taking me on some adventures and thank you for loving me!

I have a good feeling about this next year baby!

Let's go adventure what do you say?

{after this past year we can do anything}

Here is your 26th year of life.......