Pondering

We came home tonight from an outdoor movie with my parents and I saw how messy my house was!!!! So I thought to myself, I should clean something! Well I cleaned up the kitchen and put a few odds and ends away and saw the stack of files from my parents house ( containing school info, medical info and misc. info) with the stack of other papers on them and I thought, "I should go through those," so I did. As I was sitting on the floor with all the piles of papers I realized something. I realized that it has been a very long journey from where my life took a turn back when I was 14 years old. One minute I was a normal teen enjoying every little thing I did, not caring if I got hurt, I knew I would heal; then the next thing I know, I injured my knee playing volleyball, and that is where it all began.

My knee was swollen like a volleyball itself!!! We went to many doctors trying to figure out what was wrong. I began to be in pain all the time, constant pain in the lower half of my body and I remember one time my mom was trying to help me stretch my legs because if I didnt stretch I couldnt feel better, or so she told me. the one thing I remember the most about that day, laying on the floor and trying to stretch, was I told my mom through my tears that it hurt to bad and I couldnt do it, She told me " Yes you can." My mom has been such an amazing mom, I couldn't have asked for better.

Well anyway, I eventually was diagnosed with Spondyloarthropathy, an arthritis of the back. I was terrified!!! I thought to myself, " I am too young for this!" There I was, a 14 year old girl who was diagnosed with arthritis. Let me tell you, it has been a rough several years. I knew that God wouldnt give me more than I could handle and it was hard to deal with the whole idea of having a disease. My freshmen year of college, I fell down the stairs, and got in a car accident. Shortly after that, I was diagnosed with a torn spinal disc.

I must say, whatever God is teaching me, i must not be getting the memo! It has been so hard to deal with pain all the time. The arthritis is very much under control, thanks to my awesome doctor ( will miss her). But my back, has been trying. I have sat and cried to God, asked him to give me strength because my is gone, and everyday He does. Life is not as easy as it was when I was 13! But God has been so very good to me. I have an awesome family who has been with me and prayed with me, prayed for me and encouraged me. And to add to all the good He has given me, He gave me my husband. The sweetest man ever!!! The whole six months we were engaged, I had so many health issues, and he was there every time.

So as I sit here and ponder my life, I do know one thing. God may have been teaching me, and I am still learning, but He is ever Blessing! He never gives up on His children!

One Month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy one month to me and my Hubby :) It has been one of the most amazing months in my life, I never knew i could love him as much as I do. When we walked out after Bro. Ronnie said "May i introduce Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Rector" we walked out to the song " Then" by Brad Paisley. It was the perfect song! He is now my whole life and my whole world. I love him more than anything. So Happy one month to US!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cooking/cleaning/living.....

So here I am, three weeks into my wonderful marriage, I love my hubby so much, and it has been amazing. I am learning to cook, which actually is not as bad as most people say it is. I am now looking for new recipes so I can cook things that I have never had and Jon has never had. But of course, I have to cook the things that I have grown up with. Now cleaning, I am still getting used to that LOL. I don't like things just laying around but it is weird doing it, and not my mom! :) My sweet husband cleaned yesterday and cooked dinner for us. I had a doctors appointment and they burnt the nerves in my back, so needless to say, I was down for the count. He stepped up and cooked and cleaned up the house.

So now to the living part. Living our lives together is very nice. Seeing him everyday when he gets home and not having to go a day without seeing him is a dream come true. Although our lives are quite busy, it is still nice. We both go to school and work. So our day usually goes like this... 5:00 a.m.-alarm goes off, for the next 30 minutes. 5:30- Jon gets up. 6:00 a.m- Jon leaves for work, and depending on what time I go to work is when I get up. I get up, make breakfast, read my Bible, and get dressed. I go to work, then come home and make dinner. Life is good!!! Sometimes I have to work at night, so I make dinner before I leave so he can have food when he comes home from work. All in all, our life is busy, but we have a happy life.

I love him so much! Saying yes to him on February 24, was the best decision of my life. Saying "I Do" on August 22, was the best day of my life!!!!

2 weeks :)

So I have been married for two weeks now, and I must say it is incredibly awesome. I love that I get to spend all my free time with Jon. We had an wonderful time on our Honeymoon, we spent two weeks in Florida, went to Disney world for the first time. I must say that I am really glad that I got to experience it with Jon for the first time. I am still loving my life. I will have more on married life soon, but I have to have little while to have some stories :)

Ever changing

I am ever changing, sometimes we think that we as people have got it down, that we are done growing, but this is so not true. I am almost 20 and I am changing every day. My life is fixing to change so much I wont even know what hit me, but it will be the best change I have ever experienced. A change that will let me and Jon grow as a couple and learn how to live together and be one. I can't wait till I will be his forever. He is the best thing that has happened to me. I am also changing physically, I have had so many things change that I just don't know what to do! But God is good, He is helping me learn to deal and has given me an amazing mom to help too. Well 12 more days and that is all we have left till I am no longer Katherine Ward, but Katherine Rector :)

Three more weeks and counting

Here we are three weeks from my wedding day : ) I can't believe that it is so close!!!! Today was just another reminder that God is so good to me. My last two days at work have been utterly crazy ( I have wondered why I even work). So when I got there, it was no different. I spent all of my morning fixing messes that were made on Friday. After that was all fixed, I had to actually do the deposit for today, and yesterday. Needless to say it was hectic. As I was working back in the cash cage, someone knocked on the door. I open the door expecting one of the girls I work with to be there, boy was I wrong! There was Jon standing there with a rose in his hand : ) I was so surprised!!!! ( Of course the girls i work with thought it was the sweetest thing )

It was so awesome to have that reminder that when my life gets a little crazy that he will be right there to cheer me up. I love him soooo much, he has been the best thing that has happened to me. God has been so good to me, he has given me and awesome family and the most amazing Fiance (future husband) ever :)

Getting Married!!!

So, I have not been on here in awhile. Here recently I have had so much to write about that it is time to let it out!! So my fiance and I are getting married on the 22 of August, and it has been an amazing journey getting ready for our wedding. Of course we can't forget those stressful moments that have made me stop and take a breath and tell myself that "it is all ok." But all in all, it has been tons of fun planning our wedding. My mom and I have had some sweet moments that will be remembered forever, and being able to have people in my wedding who have shared in my life since I was just a little thing is also very special.

I am very excited about getting married :) The excitement grows everyday. Jon and I are counting down; everyday we remind everyone how many more days we have left. I am sure when it comes down to hours that we will be counting those down too.

Today we went on the adventure of getting our marriage license. After Jon got off work and went to the gym, he came to pick me up. We made sure we had all we needed in hand so that we didn't have to go back and get anything. We get in the car and Jon gets out his GPS so that we don't get lost. Of course I have been to the Federal courthouse (don't ask), but not to the Parish Courthouse. We get downtown and drive right past it ( everyone says that we won't miss it....yeah right!) So we eventually just decide to park and walk and find it. Of course halfway there Jon tells me he forgot the change to put in the meter!!!! I go digging in my purse for a quarter so that we could park. We couldn't figure out which way to go to get there, so we stop at the Greyhound bus station and ask some random stranger if he could point us in the right direction, which thankfully he did. Eventually we made it to the courthouse and got the license.


After we left the courthouse, we made the long trek back to the car. I must say that I definitely got my exercise in for the day!!!