A new beginning........

It's been a very long time coming, February 18th this year RJ started a new job at Amcor Plastics in Ames, IA.  He is working 12 hour shifts, 4 on 4 off.  He loves it.  He is already excelling.  The past two years have been very difficult on him.  He felt as though he wasn't providing for our family.  I told him that even on disability he brings home more than I do and he just smiled.  I want him to know that not once has the thought crossed my mind that he let us down, or wasn't doing all that he could do.  I hope he never has to go through anything like this again.  He is such an amazing man with such strength and compassion.  I am proud to be his wife and raise our children together.  I try to remind him that all this time he had to be home was precious time with our little girls.  Even though some days were very hard for him, and hard on them to see him have seizures, he still was able to be with them for the first couple of years of their life. 

I did my first St. Patrick's 5k Bar run last weekend in Des Moines.  It was a ton of fun and I went with a fun group of my peeps.  We all dressed up in costume and headed down to the race.  Ok it really wasn't a "timed" race, but we still did our fair share of actual running.  On the day of the race it was down pouring all day, which made it interesting.  Many of us were wearing ponchos over our costumes but we still had a blast!