"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.." Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the Lord....sounds easy-especially if you are a Christian and believe with all you heart that God has a plan for you...for me..it is easy most days...other days, like yesterday, trusting is hard, but I know I have to keep trusting.  2010 was not a great year for us.  After Marcus passed away in April, I knew my God had healed him in heaven-no doubt about it-and I knew that God would take care of the girls and I.  Of course, I had no idea how..but I trusted....when I met Joe, it was the strangest feeling imaginable...I had prayed after Marcus died that if God was to ever send me another man to love, that he had a HUGE list of criteria he had to live up to...you see Marcus was a great man-great father, husband-and I was not going to settle for someone-they had to deserve me and my girls...and that was all there was to it!  I didn't pray for a perfect man-because there was only one of those and his name was Jesus-BUT, I prayed for a man who knew Jesus, feared the Lord and would love us unconditionally.  I prayed for a man that would work hard to take care of us and wanted to come home to us every day...and I prayed for a man that could make me laugh-even at the stupidest things :) I didn't want to replace Marcus-or try to replace a daddy for my girls...but I did want someone that I could love, that would love me back and would love my girls as his own....and God answered every prayer.  Joe is everything I prayed for...and for some people that will still take time to accept...and that is fine. He isn't going anywhere :)

So, as many of you know, Joe and I made it official on Saturday, January 8, 2011, in a "Little White Church" in Tyler :) We had a small ceremony at the Roseland Plantation and our 4 children were our wedding party-it was a perfect day.  The children have all been wonderful and understand this new change...Sela and Sloane love Joe-Price and Reece love me....and vice versa...we truly are a happy family.  That being said...we still have our moments...like yesterday-Sela finally released emotions she had been holding on to...and it was rough.  The realization that I am now married to Joe and not her daddy truly sunk in-2 days after the wedding...and she questioned..."why did God have to take my daddy?" To that I only told her I don't know...but one day she will be able to ask Him when she gets to heaven....after lots of tears between the both of us-and lots of talking about TONS of things :) Sela was better...she just needed to get it all out...and it is a lot for me to process at 35, so you can only imagine what a 10 year old is going through. I reminded Sela that God has a plan for our lives...and I realize it makes no sense for her and Sloane to have lost their daddy so young-what plan of God's would make sense for that to happen?! But we may not see the plan until years down the road...all we can do is keep trusting God to lead us in the right direction and ask him to reveal to us His master plan for our lives....KEEP TRUSTING...don't be angry at God or blame Him, but Keep Trusting....she agrees and understands...but she is 10 and still just wants answers!  Do you really blame her?

So friends, I pray that you all can keep trusting in the Lord as I try hard to do daily....it is the ONLY way I make it through each day....Just remember that there is always someone out there that is going through harder times than you...so if you can show them some hope, give them some faith..then maybe they will truly feel the love that God has for us all.

I am attaching a few pics from the wedding...my sister Jenna took these..and my friend Ashley still has some she is editing, so I will post more later...but I just wanted to share our perfect day with you all.  LOVE TO YOU ALL <3