Moving Day

October 6, 2008

Today marks a huge day! It is the beginning of a 3 year adventure for our best friends, The Cooper Family. Clay, Amanda, Carter(4.5), and Emerson(3 next week) left on a flight to Mexico early this morning. They will be spending the next 3 years sharing God's love to college students at a university in Puebla, Mexico. They are very excited, but nervous about these huge changes in their lives. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers as they begin this chapter in their lives and their children's lives. It breaks our hearts to see them go, but we all know you cannot ignore when God is calling you to carry out his plan. We will miss them, but plan to keep up with their day to day lives via phone calls, im, and web cam (thanks to Clay for the early birthday present to Jay). I cannot wait to see Max's face when Carter and "Erson" are on the computer talking to him.

Our last hurrah was a night at the bowling lanes this past weekend. The three of us gals have had bowling in our friendship since the begining. Below are some of our pictures:

The Beginning

October 6, 2008:

Where to start? I guess the logical answer would be the beginning . . . . where is that?

Jay and I go waaayyy back to our childhoods. We began this journey as classmates in the first grade and continued on as classmates for many years (until we graduated college). We became close friends and then boyfriend/girlfriend as we entered high school. That bond would never change as we stayed together through out high school and into college. In high school I enjoyed being Jay's cheerleader as he was the kicker for the football team. Jay left town to attend Liberty University as their starting placekicker. I stayed in town to attend a Community College. As freshmen again we bumped up our status and were engaged. We were married after both our sophomore years in college. Then I transferred to the nursing dept at Liberty University where Jay was majoring in business marketing. During our college years we were coaches for a local all-star cheerleading program filled with great gals and wonderful parents. Jay and I both went on to graduate from LU and then we made the big move back home where our families and friends lived. Two years after moving back home God has blessed us with a little boy. Jay currently works at the corporate office of Servpro Industries, Inc while I am a Outpatient Surgery RN at a local hospital. Now we continue on . . . . .

Two hearts, one dream . . . . . just another day in paradise.