hello everyone who wants to read. This is Jason.  

I first want to thank God for giving me someone so wonderful as Jen. He has blessed us so much and i'm glad this day finally got here. I know some people don't understand why we are doing this at such a young age and so on... All I know is that it just feels right for us. I feel that God is leading and guiding our relationship and thats how it will be. I know that God will provide and give us what we need. We might not have a lot but we will have what we need. 

I want to thank all those who have been apart of our life's. Each and everyone of you have been a blessing to us. All we ask of y'all is prayer and support. Pray that God will show us his will for our life's and that we will stay in his will. Again thanks to everyone. 

let the up hill battle begin

Christmas for me has always been wonderful! Though I must admit that I don't always remember that these are simply earthly gifts and that truly I have already recieved the best gift of all. That Jesus came to this unperfect earth as a human and died for me and ALL of my sins. Christmas day is all about Jesus and not about these earthly gifts I delight myself with. Just some food for thought.

Jason and I have been engaged less than a week and we are already faced with an up hill battle, BUT no suprise here. I have come to enjoy the challenges.. anyways let me regroup and get back to the uphill battle. Every Christmas we get together with our family. We eat and eat and eat some more.. then talk and hang out for a few more hours.. blah blah blah. Today is the first chance for some of my family to see the ring. They were all excited asking what our plans were and so on.. and then it came like a tidal wave from each and everyone one of them. I literally felt like I was getting tossed around for everyone to take a hit at. " You know it is impossible to get married while you are still in college. You won't be able to pay bills! You won't be able to have a house! How are you going to finish nursing school? How can you study, work, pay the bills, and be a wife?" And to the 15 people shouting their opinions at me, the only thing I could say was I have always been up for the challenge. [ ONE ] I felt like I wasted a perfectly good opportunity to show my faith to the many non-christians I was standing in front of. I could have said this is God's will for us, or God will provide.. something to show them that our faith is in Him and where we go from here is His will. [TWO] I just wanted to scream at the top of my lungs "really it's only been 5 days can't you just wait til we get a little closer to the wedding and then doubt everything that we can amount to be. [THREE] Jason's family is being very very supportive and it's hard to get our dreams shattered on one side and then go to his family and most of them be so encouraging.

So here the roller coaster rides begin! But I can say this.. my faith rests in the Lord and I know that we've gotten this far only because it is His will for our lives and not for one moment will I let anyone tell me any different. I believe that Jason and I will face struggles but there is a plan for everything and I know as long as we continue to rely on Him we will survive, even if we're just getting by.

Again, another mumble jumble blog but that's us!

Merry Christmas

Beginning of the rest of our lives

I've decided to make this blog so that Jas and I can share our journey with the ones we love. I realize Jas probably won't take part in this much but that doesn't stop my excitement!

Today has been a day to remember but before I tell you about it i'll brief you on the past few months. Jason and I have been juggling school and our relationship along with everything else in life and it's been hard. But we've remained confident that our time would come and we'd have plenty of time to share once Christmas break came. Well Christmas break is here and i'm working almost everyday. So Jason decided it'd be nice to go on a nice date, with no expectations so he called it. For those of you who don't know me that well.. what he meant by no expectations was that I wouldn't have my hopes up that he'd ask me to marry him. So I didn't, actually I had no expetations at all... I figured he was broke and I wouldn't see the ring we'd talked about, nearly fifty times per day, until summer time. So along with the story... I had no expectations and thought we were out for our first date in I couldn't tell you how long.

So after church this morning we went to California Dreaming and he decided around 3:30 we'd go to Edisto to watch the sunset (we use to do this all the time in high school). So we got to the beach around 4:20'ish and we set up camp. We put our blanket down and tried to light the candles which didn't last against the gail force winds. Then we talked about anything and everything as we drank our sparkling grape juice. After this we decided to take pictures with his handy dandy tripod... we had fun for a while and then we decided we'd try for that picture everyone wants. You know the one with the two people holding hands looking at the sunset, maybe it's just me. Anyways.. he had be stand there so he knew where to point the camera and we took a few more pictures. Then we try again and he tells me to stand there and look towards the ocean, and just like me I turn around and look at him (little did I know he was pulling out the ring, but i didn't see him) so when I turn around Jas gets it all set up and im waiting and waiting and I turn around and no Jason. So I turn to the other side.. No Jason. Turn to the other side and there's Jas on one knee. For those of you who know Jas it's hard to tell when he's being serious... so I totally thought he was kidding until I saw in his other hand the ring that was perfect! The only words in my vocabulary apparently were OH MY GOSH! OH MY GOSH!! (tears flowing down my face and my hands over my face) OH MY GOSH!!! Ended up only hearing him say.. he didn't want to spend his life with anyone else and he knew that God made one person for him and that was me then he proceded to ask me to marry him. Of course I screamed YES! Then he said but wait I have one more thing for you.. he pulled out a taco sauce packet from Taco Bell that said, "will you marry me?" At the time I thought it was cute but didn't put two and two together that when he asked me to date him on October 26, 2005 he asked me in the Taco Bell parking lot after church one night.

This all probably sounds like mumble jumble but everything went so fast that's all I can remember. Then we came home to Jason's house and his mom and dad greeted us and his mom gave me our first engagement present.. a little organizer and notepad to start planning!! And Jason gave me something that made my heart melt, The Promise statue by Willow Tree.

Anyways this is the beginning of our journey. Enjoy reading as I will try to post every so often to fill you in on the little things!