Year One as Mr. & Mrs.

Warning: this post may be a little cheesy and sappy, proceed with caution.

In seven days I will have been married to the most sweet, compassionate, loving, godly, handsome, and wonderful man.... my best friend.... my husband- Aubry John Taylor.  I can't believe how fast this year has gone by!  It seems like yesterday that we were with family and friends in Salado exchanging vows and dancing it up at Jack's Barn.

We have definitely been through a lot in this first year of marriage: moving towns, moving away from family, moving houses, starting new jobs, new church, and new friends.  The theme for this year was definitely been all about change.  We have learned to trust the Lord with anything and everything. 

God has personally taught me a lot this year on how to be a wife which means to be selfless, to be an encourager, to be selfless, to be positive, to be selfless, to be a good listener, to be selfless, etc.  Yes as you can probably tell the most important and hardest thing that he has taught me this year is to be selfless.   I have not quite perfected this act, as my husband can attest to, but I continue to work on this every day. 

Now, to get back to telling you about this man that I call my husband.  Aubry John is without a doubt the man that God set aside for me from the beginning.  There are so many times that I think back to the countless amount of prayers that I prayed over him as a young woman, asking God to give me a pure, godly, sweet, handsome, kid loving, family man.  And did he ever deliver such a man and more.  I have learned over and over that God will always exceed your expectations and desires if you really trust Him and His timing. God blessed me with a man who knows how to love me in the most perfect way, how to comfort me, and how to keep me from being a hypochondriac (which can be a bit of a problem:).  AJ encourages me daily to be a better friend, sister, daughter, and follower of Christ.  He is funny, witty, and handsome.  He is the person I can tell my most inner secrets to and talk about my daily struggles with, he is truly my very best friend.   I completely adore him and am so proud to be his wife.  I love you Aubry John, now more than ever.  Happy One Year Anniversary Darling!



Ok so I will end this post with a year in pictures!

First Day of Marriage

Honeymoon in South Padre

Two Weeks in College Station

Saying goodbye to the truck and getting the new Ford Edge

Thanksgiving

My birthday weekend in Marble Falls

Reliving our Proposal in Marble Falls

Christmas at the Taylor's

Our First Christmas as Mr. and Mrs.

New Year's Eve

San Antonio Rodeo with the Alexander's

5k

Spring Break at Sea World

Date at Gruene

Date on the Riverwalk

Easter

Ellie's Dance Recital

Rachel's Graduation

Beach time in Corpus Christi with the family

 You may be wondering why I am creating this post 7 days in advance!  We will be on vacation over our actual anniversary day :)

Our House, Our Home

I know, I know.....it has taken me almost a year to post a new entry.  I attribute that to a crazy teaching job which was life consuming and time consuming.  BUT it is the summer and now I find myself with some free time.   I thought by now I would be sunbathing everyday, watching FRIENDS reruns, and pretending to exercise and get in shape for our upcoming vacation, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.  For the past week my life has been consumed with looking for a new place for us to live.  I have spent countless hours on this dang computer and my phone searching for any house in our price range, North San Antonio, and accepts dogs.  You would think with the millions of homes in this town that this would not be a hard thing to find, at least that's what I thought until I spent the entire first day of summer browsing trulia, zillow, realty.com, hotpads, etc.  In all this searching and driving and calling and emailing I have really become grateful for the house that we live in now.  It is by no means fancy, big, or paradise BUT it is the first house where AJ and I made a home.  We have spent a lot of time in this house making it our home and now we are about to leave it.  I NEVER thought I would say this, especially about this house, but I am going to miss it.  Ever since we moved in to this house I have complained about many things-first the hand washing of all dishes since the dishwasher doesn't work, leaky lines in the washing machine valves (which are fixed now), running toilet, no space in the master bathroom, and ultimately the shady neighbors across the street.  However, now I am beginning to see that his rental wasn't all bad.  It has more than enough space for us, it looks nice on the outside, and is a lot nicer than most rentals on the inside. 

Since we are moving in three weeks, realtors came by to take pictures of the inside to post on all of those realty search engines mentioned previously.  Of course I cleaned relentlessly since our house was going to be all over the internet, so I thought I would take some pictures of it too since it is rarely ever this clean :)

 This house with its many flaws was still our first home, which means it will forever be a part of us.

 Now we are in the waiting game, waiting on an application for a new house to be approved.  I do believe they have any and all information that they could ever possibly want to know about AJ and I (don't tell my dad...he would totally freak at this!).  It is crazy how much people want to know about you in order for them to rent their property to you.  I thought that the process for renting would be close to the same as it is in College Station.......ha.  So now we wait...we pray...and we wait.  We have about 7 days to find a place and sign the lease before we leave the country!!!