Seriously, I'm Back!

So, life for the Coffeys is never all that exciting (for the record, I like it that way), but I will try my best to keep you all interested....

I feel very irresponsible for not posting for over a year, except for my false statement about being back and trying harder to post blog updates...yeah. Not so much. How can I sum up all that time without going for the longest blog ever posted? Oh wait, I know, just write about our life.

Let's see...Jason and I have been in our house for about 15 months now. We absolutely love our home. It's huge right now, and there is still a lot of empty space and rooms. But, when we were looking for homes, we didn't want to buy something that would only last us through our non-kid years. We wanted something we could grow into. And when we found the house, it was such an amazing price for the size that we couldn't pass it up. Maybe one day we will fill up those extra rooms.... maybe :)

Jason is enjoying his position at the Coast Guard station, but has decided to take a new path and start pharmacy school in the Fall of 2013. He will do the rest of his tour here, and then the era of poverty will begin for us. I just have to keep telling myself, "only 4 years, only 4 years." It will be a difficult time financial wise, but in other ways I am looking forward to it. For instance, Jason is so busy right now. He's active duty Coast Guard, which not only requires a 45+ hour work week, but he is also "on duty" 1 week out of the month. That means that he is called if any issue, such as pollution, flooding, an incident on the river, or anything else involving Coast Guard operations, happens while he is on duty he gets called out to investigate. The calls sometimes come allll hours of the night. It's really fun. Jason also works at a pharmacy 1 weekend a month and is taking a couple classes each semester until he starts school full time. And he has picked up teaching the high school Sunday School class at our church. So, needless to say, he will have a much simpler life when school starts.

Speaking of his Sunday School class, Jason is teaching the high school kids Apologetics and the importance of learning the subject of defending your faith. I have learned so much from him in the last few months about the necessity of knowing why our God is real, true, and alive. I'm really excited about the things I am learning about my faith and it makes me want to share it with everyone. 

Jason and I are joining his family on a Gatlinburg, TN vacation for Thanksgiving. I am very excited to be somewhere else besides home for a holiday.  It will be a nice change. We are also doing another first this Christmas: this year will be the first Christmas Jason and I spend together in our own home. Our first Christmas together we were at his parents'. The second Christmas we split up because he had to work through the holidays, and I desperately missed my family, so he was gracious enough to let me go home. The third Christmas was at my parents'. I am looking forward to waking up on Christmas day with him, even if it's just us and we are only exchanging small gifts to each other, it will still be special. I am hoping it will snow on Christmas, that would make it perfect.

Well it looks like I did a pretty good job of filling up a page. It's up to my readers whether I bored them to tears or not. Goodnight, and maybe I will have another update sooner rather than later :)

I'm back!

I'm a terrible blogger. Here I am, over a year since my last post. I think my problem is...my life is fairly boring, and I can't find enough to talk about. Even when my life is somewhat exciting, I think to myself, "no one wants to hear about that." Well anyway, I'm trying again, so here goes. Unfortunately, though....it's late and I'm taking a shower and going to bed :) My creative writing skills are parallel with my energy level. Grooming appointment for Baloo in the morning, church, and working in the yard. See? Nothing exciting. Goodnight.

Home to the Hills

Well, after almost 2 months of not posting, I am obviously not very good at keeping everyone up to date on our lives. I know you were obsessively checking the blog like everyday, don't deny it. Because I know how vital these posts are for your everyday enjoyment, I apologize for the absence of them.



Probably the main reason for not blogging is our new addition to the family, Baloo.




He is a pure bred Newfoundland and is the cutest puppy ever. But he is most definitely a puppy. I will be happy when he grows out of this stage. And so will my mother in law who did not ask for a puppy but got one when we moved in with her. :)

Which brings me to my next tidbit of info. We moved! Thank the Lord. DC is a terrible place to live, in my opinion. Any of you who say, "Oh I visited DC last year and I loved it!" Let me tell you, visiting and living are two VERY different things. Unless you love catering to minorities, enjoy hour long traffic jams, and find littered roads to be a type of "experiencing the culture," DC is not for you. We are very happy in our quiet, country setting. We don't have a house yet, but we are currently looking. Here are a few prospects:

This one is on 6 acres on top of a hill :)

We are very excited about all the new changes. I also start a new job on Monday. I'm working for the West Virginia National Guard as Family Resource Support Assistant. As soon as I know what that means, I'll let you know.

Hopefully my next post will not be so few and far between.

A Year of Change and of Life Well Lived

Thanks to Christine for inspiring this post.....

Welcome to our blog! I say "our" like Jason will be contributing to this, but, sadly, he thinks blogging without a purpose other than telling about the ins and outs of everyday life is mundane and unnecessary. But I still love him. I simply created this blog so that those who are interested (probably very few) can read about our daily (ok maybe weekly) happenings and goings-on. I don't see myself blogging every day, because frankly not a lot of exciting things happen to us. I will probably write a lot about our dogs Bear and Baloo, because they are the main source of our entertainment.

Jason and I just recently celebrated our first anniversary. We had a great time in Charlottesville, VA. We drove down on Saturday to tour the home of Thomas Jefferson and to get away from the city. We took two different routes, and the drive was beautiful both ways, but especially on the way home. We ended up on a road that must have been "inhereted millionare highway." There were countless farms and estates with rolling hills and beautiful homes. On Easter Sunday, our true anniversary date, we went to church and came home to eat our frozen wedding cake. It was still good! Thanks, Mom!

For the past year, Jason and I have been learning how to be a married couple. We were placed in a city far away from the support of family and friends which forced us to discover how to live together without their presence. I'm thinking of so many cliche' phrases that you have all heard a thousand times. It's been a challenge, but a good one!.....we are learning more and more everyday!.....we fall in love all over again....All these things are true, and I find myself even more thankful to God today than I was a year ago for allowing me to experience this amazing, difficult, wonderful, frustrating, beautiful challenge day in and day out!