My baby girl made this for Dave and I for Valentines day~ she is such an amazing little girl!

Valentine's and Other Matters of the Heart

Life has been AMAZING and WONDERFUL and I am SO in love with the most WONDERFUL man in the world! God has blessed my life in ways I never could have imagined! I am in awe at just how wonderful this man is. I know there are some character defects, he is after all human, but boy oh boy is he perfect for me!

We have a wedding date~ we have a church~ we have a Preacher~ I have a dress~ Wow oh wow it is all coming together!And God has had HIS hand in it all... There is no way I could have planned this so quickly without the help of God. HE has blessed us with creating stepping stones to each place HE wants us to be to make our wedding one that is special for us and GLORIFIES HIM.

I think too, that God is blessing us because we are staying true and not being sexually active with eachother until we are married. I know it sounds wierd... ME? Not being sexually active with a man I am going to marry? I admit it was my Love's idea. He has such a strong faith and is true to what he believes in. So when he said it, I was in agreement with him. Now I know it was such a wonderful way for the two of us to begin our marriage. It will indeed be very special.

My wedding dress is white~ now many people will believe it a mockery for me to wear white~ but I believe that as I stand before GOD and our friends and family to pledge myself to this man, as long as we both shall live, that I am eligible to wear white. First and foremost my Love for him is pure, we have not fornicated, and GOD has blessed this union, brought us together, and will direct our steps as we go through our life together as husband and wife.

I am ever so grateful that I have David in my life and I am ever so grateful that I am going to spend the rest of my days with him.

God has led two lives to take one path

David Rhoads

and

Barbara Beilin

Announce that they will

be uniting their lives

on March 6, 2010

Good Morning!

Yesterday was interesting...

First it was the anniversary of my Mom being gone... and although I had a few moments of melancholiness, overall I handled the day very well.

Of course that came from the love and support of my family~

My daughter talked me into a "beauty" day... we went and got our haircut together, then a manicure and pedicure :) it was fun! Lots of good Mother/Daughter time and really a good time.

So I have this nice new haircut~ it isn't anything dazzling just a nice simple cut. Easy to take care of but also easy to fuss with to make dazzling with a straightner and curlers...

Then it was off for the mani/pedi! It was so much laughing a giggling~ we were in the shop with a bunch of other folks and it was just a really fun time. I have PINK toes... I mean BRIGHT PINK! They are so cute. I was more restrained with my nails. They are pink but a much lighter and boring shade. But still nice.

Katie kept trying to convince me to get acrylics... but I just cannot see spending that kind of money for "fake" nails that pop off in a week. Washing dishes lifts them, you can't pick at things to pull up things like a label because it will lift them, you can't mess with oil and grease in your car because it stains them permantly... yeah I'll pass on acrylics.

But the manicure? Oh yeah! So nice to have my nails looking so pretty. I know that if I want to keep them like this I have to be responsible and do it. Well...

Now I have a real reason to do it! I have a RING! OMG so pretty! Dave is an amazing man! Found the perfect ring for me. Ok so Katie did help him :) She told him that a couple of them were just to big (thank you Katie for remembering Mom doesn't like big rings!) and then she told him a couple he liked were to decorative for me (again thank you Katie for remembering Mom likes things simple). So together the two of them found the ring I will be wearing for the rest of my life.

The rest of my life... wow! Like this man, he really is the ONE, the one I will spend my life with. I know that God is blessing this marriage and it is from him and of him and WOW!

I know that our marriage is going to take work and maintenance~ one of the things I have learned over the last 26 years of failed relationships... a relationship doesn't thrive and flurish when one forgets to take care of it every day. So many get complacent in their relationship and fail to take care of things...

Until death do us part... WOW!

Yes, you are reading this right!
I have met my KNIGHT in SHINING ARMOUR! He has come in, swept me off my feet, and WoW! He is so totally amazing and wonderful I GOD is simply AMAZING!