Fall Leaves

This is one of the reasons why I moved up here and LOVE it. There are so many yellow, red, purple, and oranges leaved trees right now and they are so beautiful. Wanted the Florida family to share in the beauty, too.

Holloween!

We found the perfect pumpkin to take home and Pat and I carved our first pumpkin together! I haven't carved a pumpkin in like 10 years, so it was so exciting!

Then Halloween came..... our little lady bug, Ellie and us with Chrissey!

Fall Time Fun!

The leaves are changing, the fall season is here, complete with the beautiful crisp air!

AND ALL THE ACTIVITIES THAT COME WITH IT!

We went to this huge Pumpkin patch and corn fields with the Ohio family, I have never been to a real Pumpkin patch, an established one, anyway.

Birthday Fun

Have I not told you how amazing Patrick is? Well, let me just say!

We have a Secord tradition called "The Birthday Breakfast", where everyone except for the birthday person, wakes up earlier before 5:00 am to make a ridiculous spread of breakfast and the traditional Entemann's black donuts. Even though I have been a huge fan of this  annual morning adventure, I am in no way a morning person, so I was wondering what Pat would do? He let us both sleep in as much as we could before he made me breakfast and gave me my beautiful present, a scarf (I LOVE SCARVES!!). It was so nice because we were both exhausted and that is what makes the tradition so special.

Then, after work, I come home to a beautifully homemade chocolate cake that HE BAKED!! I didn't know guys could bake. :) If that wasn't special enough, it was a DOUBLE LAYERED cake!! It made my year! It was so awesome! That night I got together with the girls up here, Rachel and the babies, as well as Chrissey!

Needless to say, Pat is always showing me how much he cares so much and he is the best husband ever! Very excited and loving the married life with him!

God's blessings.

Settling in.

We are now settling in to our apartment in the beautiful city of Columbus. A few weeks after we got back from the honeymoon, I didn't feel so well. So, I went to the doctor who told me that I was pregnant....PREGNANT!! It was so awesome when I told my husband, he just smiled and looked at me, obviously shocked and happy with the news. That is something I will remember. 

Every so often, he touches my stomach and says baby and talks to it. A father's love is so amazing! And the best part about having his baby, is that this will be first known blood-relative because he is adopted. God is doing amazing things to us and our little family. 

Prior to the wedding, we had decided that we would get our dog, and interestingly enough, our little chocolate lab, who is 7 weeks old, is as old as the baby in my belly. Ellie, the pup is so cute and she brings sunshine to my life everyday, especially when she cuddles next to me.

 

Do you have dogs in your family? How are they with babies and little children? I am excited to see the day when the two meet, in June 2011!

All of God's blessings!

Recently...

We got married at Saint Mary, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church with the witness of our friends and family. God certainly has given us so many people who care about us and we love them so much!

After we got married, we went to Catalina Island. It was so beautiful there and it was wonderful going on vacation with him. We rode a tandem bike, rented a boat to tour the coast of the island, played golf, and cruised the island's gardens and petite cottages and homes in a golf cart. We met other couples who were on their honeymoon and who were there celebrating their special events and milestones of their lives. It was unforgettable and filled with beautiful moments.

Our Story

Patrick Smith  and I met in Cultural Anthropology class the first week of school in August 2006. He was wearing a sailing shirt and since moving from Florida haven't seen any sailors, I felt the excitement of meeting someone from my neck of the woods. But to my dismay, he started to argue with me, stating it was a Fisher's shirt. That is how our friendship started. We became good friends for a year, when I decided to answer the call to go to the convent to see how God wanted to use me in this world. After returning a year later to Franciscan University to finish schooling, we immediately started hanging out and became best friends. After that, we started dating. (he later told me that he had liked me the entire time, when he claimed to want to "only" be friends and that he had waited for me, not dating anyone else and not even knowing if I would be his one day). 

We then, let the Lord lead us to how and where He wanted us. I graduated in May 2009 and moved to Tampa and Jacksonville to pursue a job, where we pursued a long distance relationship and then he proposed in November 2009. We decided there was no one else we wanted to be spend our lives with, and so, on September 18^th, 2010, we got married in my hometown in St. Petersburg, Florida. 

We now live in Columbus, Ohio where God has blessed us with two wonderful jobs and we just found out we are having a beautiful baby in June 2011. We were both new to FUS in that fall of 2006, we both were from Florida but never had met, we both came knowing no one and we were able to come away with a best friend and a love that will last a lifetime. 

All of God's love and blessings.