Gracie Ann: Happy 2nd Anniversary to Us!!

Corey and I have been married two years today!! I wish I could look back and say that was a wonderful, blissful second year of marriage, but it wasn't. It was sad, difficult and exhausting, but God did provide a few blessings for us. We got to meet and hold Gracie, which I am so thankful for. Also, He provided us with a house that we continue to just love each day we are here. We found out I was pregnant right after our one year anniversary celebration and we were so excited. I remember thinking next year for our anniversary we will have a baby to celebrate with and slowly the dreams and excitement were taken away as we started seeing the doctor. God gave me the most wonderful husband, who never faltered in his faith in God and love for me in this last year. He has such a quiet strength about him that was so needed this last year. I am so thankful to God for allowing me to be his wife. We have been through the hardest thing a newly married couple could go through and it only brought us closer together and made our love for each other stronger. Corey is and continues to become my best friend, whom I love more each day. I love doing life with him. I pray that this next year will be a year of happiness and fun for us!!! It sounds superficial but honestly it would be nice. Thank you, God, for all your blessings that you have given us and continue to give us.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

(1 Corinthians 13:4-13 ESV)