Yes, my brothers tried to "kidnap" me and keep me from leaving. I praise the Lord for such special little brothers and look forward to seeing them in November!
Emma with her Great-Grammy Beck
The three sisters, and I am officially the shortest now! :-)
Before Justin and I got married the family was given a giftcard for ice cream. Mom and Dad decided it was time to use it while we were all home. (Sadly Justin was already back in Texas.)
Helping Grammy with the laundry :-)
Enjoying my hubby while he was with us for a few days :-D
I can't believe how quickly my littlest brother is growing up!
Though our paths don't cross as often as when we were both at home all of the time, Leigha is still my very dear friend and sister. We are greatly looking forward to her visit later this fall!
Hello everyone. I guess the Horsman family is long overdue for a blog post. Emma and I have been back in Texas now for 2 1/2 weeks but we have been terribly busy and to be honest with you I just haven't wanted to try sorting through all of the pictures! For the first few days after arriving back at our little home I knew that it would not be a good idea to view the pictures anyway. It was hard enough to say goodbye to the family and I was already battling the "salty floods" :-)
It was SO good to be back in Maine and to have time with the family and our friends. It was a whirlwind trip (even though it was three weeks long you wouldn't believe how crazy it was!) but it was a good trip. I am so grateful for the way God has been blessing us during this new season of life being so far away from the family. I have to say that I am a real homebody and although I love traveling and seeing new places, I LOVE to go home! This move has been a huge challenge on many fronts, but our God is so GOOD!!!
I told my family that I feel like God has, in a sense, gone out of His way to make this move as smooth as possible. He has blessed us with a wonderful church and many precious friends. Several families have really reached out to us and made us feel so welcome. God has been using this move to challenge me to find my joy in Him FIRST, to bloom where He has planted me, to make new friends (if you know me well you know that I like the familiar and my comfort zones!), and to embrace our little family. I have dreamed of being a wife and mother ever since I was a little girl (and I am just LOVING it!) but I never really realized how hard the leaving and cleaving would be. I spent the first 23 (almost 24) years of my life being a Reed, and family = my parents and siblings. But now, even though they are still my family, they are not my primary focus anymore. God has been using this time so far away from those whom I love so dearly and whom have always been my closest family, to really shape and solidify our little family. Justin and I have both sensed it and it has been a beautiful thing to see God at work. Justin and I looked at each other today on the way home from church and commented on how much we LOVE being a family! This doesn't mean that our parents and siblings are no longer a precious, vital part of our lives because they ARE! It just means that they now play a different role in our lives and we in theirs. God has His own exciting plans for the Justin Horsman family and I for one am looking forward to being a part of those plans!
(Wow I didn't plan on that being so long :-)So anyway, here are some pictures from my time in Maine. I may have to do this in a couple different posts because there are so many pictures.
Mother/Daughter Breakfast (We had to split up because there were so many of us. From left to right are my sister Hannah, Grammy Beck, my mom, my sister Leigha, my cousin Raychelle, and my cousin Anna.)
Here are Emma and I, my cousin Susan, my Grammy Reed-Moody, and my Aunt Debbie.
Going to the Beadin' Path to make jewelry has become one of our summer traditions when my cousins visit from New Jersey.
We also play a TON of card games...
...and a visit to Maine wouldn't be complete without some tubing on the lake!
Emma wasn't a big fan of her lifejacket, but she did enjoy her Grammy!
Yes, Emma and I are in Maine. My cousin got married on Saturday so Emma and I flew up for the wedding. We are here for a few weeks enjoying family and drinking in the fresh country air!!! I had almost forgotten how wonderful it smells here :-) It has been such a blessing to be with family these past few days and we are looking forward to more. Here are a few pictures of our time so far.
This picture was taken at the wedding. On each side from left to the center and then from right to the center we have four generations. The young lady next to me is my second cousin. She and I grew up together and worked together at our family's restaurant (http://www.moodysdiner.com/index.html .) Now we are both married with little girls :-) Our moms (who are first cousins) grew up playing together and our grandmothers are sisters! Pretty neat huh?!
Playing the piano with Auntie
Saturday evening my in-laws had my family over for supper and the guys tried out the new horseshoe pit!
Watching :-)
Can you tell which team one?!
I have taken several pictures with my in-laws but didn't have the setting right on my camera so they were quite blurry. I will have more to share later.
Ok, so let me explain something about my wonderful hubby! Justin has several sayings that are uniquely his ;-) In his days at ALERT he and one or two of the other guys loved to see how long it would take others to start saying whatever the catchy phrase was that they had started. Supposedly it wasn't long before they would have everyone else using the same phrase. Our family gets quite a kick out of his creativity!
Here are a few examples... 1) Cool Beans (i.e. neat, or awesome) 2) Camassive (Really, REALLY BIG!) 3) Oh Billy 4) Oh my billy goodness!
I just love living life with you Babe! Thank you so much for asking me to be your wife!!!!
Yes, my brothers tried to "kidnap" me and keep me from leaving. I praise the Lord for such special little brothers and look forward to seeing them in November!
Emma with her Great-Grammy Beck
The three sisters, and I am officially the shortest now! :-)
Before Justin and I got married the family was given a giftcard for ice cream. Mom and Dad decided it was time to use it while we were all home. (Sadly Justin was already back in Texas.)
Helping Grammy with the laundry :-)
Enjoying my hubby while he was with us for a few days :-D
I can't believe how quickly my littlest brother is growing up!
Though our paths don't cross as often as when we were both at home all of the time, Leigha is still my very dear friend and sister. We are greatly looking forward to her visit later this fall!
Emma and her Great-Grammy Reed/Moody
Cousin Susan
Cousin Raychelle
