My Journey: It's Gonna Be Alright

So James and I will be celebrating our one year anniversary on Oct. 27th and I am very excited. We have had so much happen to us in the past year and to tell you the truth I would not change it for the world. As most know I did lose my job on Oct.1st, 2010 at Clovis Unified and I did search for a job in Sacramento and had a few offers. One offer wouldn't give me the job until we moved to Sacramento and well we didn't have the funds so that job offer fell through. I also had an offer in Davis for Bright Horizons and well as we were about to get ready to move forward and move I called and there was a job freeze and that is when we went to go take our 30 day notice back, but things just went down hill. Our apartment was rented out and the renters were moving in on the 17th of March. We really had no where to go so we decided to go live with my parents for awhile. James and I then decided we were going to visit Fresno and we stayed with friends for a week and during that week we searched for jobs. We ended up getting in a car accident while job searching on April 1st. It was nothing bad at all. We were just rear- ended and I had whiplash for about a month and our honda was totaled. We were very lucky for such wonderful friends because we were able to borrow their extra car they helped us find a new car. After the car accident things turned for the best and we now have a 2006 Chevy Colbolt LS as most of you know and have seen. Once we got the new car I knew we were able to go to the Sacramento Jazz Festival and enjoy our love of jazz and that is exactly what we did. I even got a part- time job at Kids Kare at the Park and we ended up renting a room from our friends. On July 25th I started being a full-time preschool preschool teacher at Kids Kare at the Parks. I have so many memories and I have had so much fun. I have played duck duck goose and leap frog with the kids I work with and I also have started talking like my coworkers... I have started saying girl boo, deuces, and also oh snap. :) Then on September 3rd... we moved to a 2 bedroom apartment across from the Fresno Airport. We ended up staying with our friends that night (September 3) cause we couldn't get everything done and we were overwhelmed. After church on September 4th we finished moving into our new place. Then a week after we moved we went back home to Santa Maria to get our babies. We now have Zoe and Gavin back and it has been the best thing ever. Gavin loves to play with his big teddy bear from my mom and he also loves to play with his baby teddy bear from my mom. Zoe still hides. Just the other day I looked for her and I couldn't find her... finally I looked under the bed for her once again and there she was actually inside of the box spring of the bed. On September 12th James and I went out to dinner at Bobby Salazars to try and win tickets to Blazefest from Jennifer Lipp (Our favorite talk show host from 105.1 the blaze). Well anyways I actually won the tickets, so on September 17th we went to Blazefest and we had a blast. Heard many great bands. So some quotes I now live by and hope many people will live by are "Set yourself up to succeed"- Sherrilynn Colby Bottel (which I have set myself up to succeed in so many ways and just hope I can continue to succeed); "If you're gonna grow, you've got to let the sun shine on you"- Sherrilynn Colby-Bottel (I have also grown and the sun continues to shine on me... I am one changed young lady); "It is all in God's hands"- Sherrilynn Colby-Bottel (as you can tell I let it all be in God's hands and let God show me his Plan and we are now very happy living back where we want to make our living and home); and "See, good things come to those who wait"- Jeff Barnhart (so very true and I waited and got a full-time job, we got a place to call our own, and of course a year of happiness). I also learned from Pastor Wil that "Everything in life is a fill in the blank test and Christ is the answer. he is not always the best answer, but he is the only answer." I just wanted to thank everyone who was there for us and a special thanks to Brenda and Harlan for giving us shelter and of course for the food they shared with us for 6 months and thanks to my parents for letting us stay with them for awhile and for taking care of our babies! :) Also thank you for my mentor for giving me the prep talks I needed during this time of need. I now know I wouldn't turn anything around because I am extreme close to my hubby now and I am madly in love with him. Also there has been many meaningful and helpful lessons learned. It really did make it a lot easier to deal with all of these trials with my hubby.