Wow, I've had this blog deal for an entire year now and this is only my 3rd post. There's very few things to remind me that a blog of my family exists, so it hasn't really existed up to this point. I'm not even sure where to begin. I guess I could read other blogs to get an idea, but I suppose it's better to just do my own thing.
Here's a little about our family, to start with:

I was born in Douglas, Wyoming in December of 1982
Joshua was born in Saragossa, Spain in June of 1983 - I'm a cradle robber

We met our sophomore year of high school when my family moved from Powell Wyoming to Cheyenne Wyoming. We were mere acquaintances for the next few years. We started talking more our senior years of high school and continued to through our freshman years of college. I realized during the beginning months of my sophomore year of college that he had quickly become one of my closest friends. I was enjoying a much needed year away at college in Strathmore, AB Canada and we spent hour upon hour on the phone each week. At the end of Feb 03' he stated his intentions and told me how he felt. I was elated! We we're engaged in November of 04 and married on May 28th 2005. Our wedding was in the mountains just East of Laramie, Wyoming. We spent the next month and a half in Laramie, commuting back and forth to Cheyenne to work at Brown's Shoe Fit Company (Thanks Shane-o! We would have been completely destitute without your generosity in providing those jobs for us) and dumster diving for food, because we were....extreamly poor.

The dumster diving was in part simply for entertainment. It just proved to be very...fruitful, if you will. We saved many moneys on food that month and a half. I dare say, for those of you that attended our wedding, the banada bread that you most likely consumed was composed completely of dumster doven bananas.... I apologize for the late notice. We packed up and split town for Maryland at the beginning of July. We were thrilled with the chance to venture out and live just as newlyweds in love, with no interuptions.

We lived in Maryland for a year while Josh did a research program designed for students between undergrad and Medschool. There will be a whole separate blog about our numurous and humurous adventures had in Maryland. We moved from there to Kirksville, MO in July of 06 where we purchased our first (fantastically adorable) house and nested down for Josh's first two years of osteopathic medical school at A.T. Still University. Our riot of a son, Elijah, came into existance there in Kirksville on July 13th, 2007. Johua finished out his second year there constantly battling whether to study or play with his son (he truly amazed me at how he could always pull good grades and play with Elijah as much as he did). We celebrated our 3rd anniversary as I miscarried our unexpected second child. Pretty crappy, I know. We packed up our belongings, celebrated Elijah's first birthday on the 13th of July and I wept as we drove away from our beloved house on July 15th, 2008. We landed in Colorado, where Josh is now doing his 3rd and 4th year of medschool, "clinical rotations." He's enjoying them thus far and God has coninued to confirm, through experiences with all different kinds of practices, that he's been called to do Family Practice. We will move from here in June of 2010 to make our way to his 3 year residency (location unkown). But for now, we are most definetely enjoying being near both of our families! It's also nice to have no humidity (but scaley knuckles and cracked insides of noses aren't so fun!), 70 degree weather spattered here and there throughout the winter, and being able to see the mountains any time we pull out onto the main road infront of our cozy little home.

Well, thats the blanket story. If you have the time and interest, I'll plug away at telling the tales of our lives from each place we've been. We'll start with dumster diving in Laramie, though it may be short because it was some time ago and my memory is limited to a few key points. Intersperced, I'm sure, will be the adventures of my every day life as I continue my career in being a stay-at-home mom to our now 19th month old boy. He's a hoot for sure!