New beginnings

Well, I guess that's what everyone says about a new year; with a new year brings new beginnings. That is ringing true for Eric and I this year. I'm just going to be honest, completely honest in this blog and lay it out there.

Eric and I have been married for 5 1/2 years now. It's been wonderful. We have made more memories than I could ever count; we've been through everything as a couple. We've brought 2 amazing children into this world, bought 2 houses and sold one, faced death in our family, had our share of good times and bad; basically you name it, we've been through it. But one thing remained true; no matter how we committed ourselves to better our relationship with the Lord, we always seemed to fall short. It's not that we weren't seeking Him or trying to do better, we just seemed to fall by the waist side and go our own way. We haven't been to church every Sunday. And we said we would join a Sunday school group when we got married. Well, 5 1/2 years later, we'd failed to do so. Don't get me wrong. I love our God; He is at the center of this marriage. I was baptized in August for the second time in my life to recommit my life to Him. And things have been going great. But for the last month, it seemed like everywhere I turned, something was telling me to go to this class our church has for young married couples. They all have children in this class; the men love to hunt and fish and go on trips together to do so. They pray together; do things together; reach out to others sharing God's word and love. It's just what Eric and I have been seeking and missing in our lives.
So finally, after all of this time of just simply not going, we took that step. And it was great.
We loved the class. And the people. Everyone has at least 2 children. Yay for other moms! They are planning some amazing things to do as a class for this year. We left there feeling like we'd found our niche. Cole had a blast playing with the other children. Raleigh, well, not so much! Completely my fault; she's always with me and only been left with my mom or Eric's mom, except for one other time which also didn't go so well! She's just at that age where she has bad separation anxiety and on top of it all is teething. But I know she'll get used to it.
We've volunteered to help with food for next Sunday. We are so excited to be taking a step closer to better our lives as individuals and as a couple, as well as parents to Raleigh and Cole. I'll keep posting on how it's going, but for now, we couldn't be in a better place.