So long, farewell...

Hello all my faithful blog friends!  I have been a bad blog friend lately, and I'm sad to say that I will be ducking out for a while.  Life has been busy the last several months, and as much as our world prides business, I do not. 

First and foremost, I want to be fully devoted to my Lord and Savior.  I need to spend more time being intentional with my God time, and having that my priority. 

Secondly, I want to be a wife who has time for her husband - time to make a home, time to plan date nights and special surprises throughout the week, time to encourage and pursue the love of my life, time to put him and his needs above my own.

I also want to work at being the friend I want to be to my amazing friends!  The friend who calls you in the middle of the week just to check in.  The friend who plans a surprise party.  The friend who remembers the struggles and joys that you're experiencing and asks how YOU are doing!  I feel the same way about my family!  To plan special days with my sisters and mom!  To go above and beyond the norm.

I want these to be my priorities in life. 

Following this priorities, I am so excited to work on our house, to do projects, to plant a garden etc!  I hope to share some progress every once in a while, but I thought I would be honest with all of you as to where I am at right now!

Have a great spring, and see you in a while!

Goals

How was everyone's weekends?  Mine was sad, quite a lot of fun, partly very frustrating, and a lot of other emotions in between.

Sunday evening I had to say good bye to my husband :'( for the week, because he is helping out a friend by taking over his business while he is in Mexico. 

A while back I remember seeing a fellow blogger (and :( now I can't remember who) having weekly goals that she posted and I thought that was a great idea.  So...I finally am starting this too.  So here are my 5 goals for this week.

Weekly goals 

1. Bake cinnamon buns without my Mom (for the first time ever) 
2. Exercise for at least 10 minutes 5 days this week (because I'll be eating so many cinnamon buns..jk, to improve my general health)
3. Take a bubble bath and be in bed by 10 pm
4. Try to come up with a clever way of showing my husband that I love him and then follow through :P  
5. Memorize John 15:1-6 (My goal for this year is to memorize all of John 15...I haven't gotten very far, only to about vs 4, so I am making it a priority and a weekly goal!)

So...are there things that you've been putting off and want to check off your list??  Why not share them, it just might be a bit of extra motivation.

We had 3 vehicles 

05 Jeep Liberty (mine)

'96 Jeep Cherokee (Ev) and 

'97 GMC S10 (Ev)

All being fuel inefficient to varying degrees.  So about 2 weeks ago I thought that it might be nice for us to find a car that is fuel efficient, since we drive long distances quite frequently.  Then I realized, which vehicle would we get rid of?  Definitely not my Jeep, and Everett will NEVER sell his Jeep, and the S10 isn't really worth much.  I voiced my thoughts to Everett, just as a general observation, not thinking that anything would come of it, since we have zero cash to spend right now, and not really any options as to selling a vehicle to acquire cash.  He mentioned this to his dad two weekends ago.

AND..as of last Saturday we are the proud owners of a '98 Toyota Corolla!!  WOOT! 

His dad was the previous owner, and they realized together that his dad wouldn't mind having a small truck around, for hauling/moving things occasionally, and the 'rolla was sitting in the garage unregistered, so we did a switch-a-roo!  YIPEE!  We also parked Ev's Jeep, so it's now unregistered, but it's great having only 2 vehicles registered instead of 3, and now one of those 2 vehicles is good on gas :)  Winner!