The Start...

Well here goes nothing. I thought I'd start up this whole blog thing as to I'm horrible at journal writing. I figure i might be a little better with typing up entries over writing them. So this is the start. I can't promise something every week, but I think every month is quite doable. So where to start....Hmm...well I guess it started about a year ago exactly at this time. This week will mark the first week Chase and I started talking! Haha...wow a year since we've met! Yesterday was our five month anniversary and this weeks marks a year from when we met. It blows my mind how fast things can change, and luckily change for the better. Chase and I started talking and chatting it up a year ago this week, and how blessed and thankful I truly am to have met him. It amazes me how random people come into your life. It amazes me that the best things come to you in life when you least expect it. The Lord truly does bless us more than we realize. So to start this blog I thought I'd give a brief outline of the past year that led me up to this point of sitting in my new home, with my amazing husband of five months, starting this blog of our adventures. The Start... One year ago...Chase and I started talking to each other a year ago. He was living in Twin Falls working for At&T and I was going to school in Logan, Utah and working for Logan City for an After School Program. We would call and talk to each other every day for about a month when we made a bet on a football game. The Giants were playing the 49ers and we said that if The Giants won he would come to Logan to take me out, if they lost I would go to Twin Falls. No doubt what so ever, The Giants won. A week later Chase and I had our first date. There was no awkwardness because we felt like we knew each other quite well up to this point. Chase says he knew from the moment I opened the door he was going to marry me...I knew from the moment I opened the door where I saw this handsome, beautiful smiling guy with flowers in his hand that he was different from the rest. We ended up going out to dinner and renting a movie and going back to my apartment. After that first weekend date it was history from there. We saw each other every weekend after that and at least one day of the week. The distance was hard but we made it work. Two months later we were engaged in April and it was the perfect engagement. Chase and I both love sports and baseball is a favorite of ours. Chase came to Logan and proposed on the pitchers mound of a baseball field. I wouldn't have had it any other way. Though at one point he got down on his knee and tied his shoe and got back up. hahaha oh Chase good thing it was dark out because I was so embarrassed thinking he was going to ask me. Luckily the embarrassment didn't last long because the second time he got down on his knee on that pitchers mound he asked me to be hiw wife. (P.S. I wans't the only nervous one, when he pulled out the ring box it was upside down haha love you honey). That summer was a long one with me in Logan and Chase living with my parents in Blackfoot. Between planning a wedding and trying to work and see my fiance it was a crazy busy summer. I had the best roommates and best friends to hold me and keep me sane. Kristen Hellwig my best friend ever held me and hugged me when the stress took over. August came and we moved me and transfered me to IDaho State University and finding our new home in Idaho Falls Idaho. It was a block from Chase's work and in a great area. We had the dress, the wedding plans down, and our house. The wedding day finally arrived on August 11, 2012. The BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

We were so beyond blessed to have our amazing family and amazing friends to be a part of that day with us. Everything turned out perfectly and I couldn't have asked for a better wedding day. We honeymooned up to Island Park to my grandparents cabin. What a lovely break from life and what bliss it was to be able to spend time with my new husband and eternal companion. After the honeymoon life started again. Chase worked as a manager for At&T and I commuted to Pocatello to school and nannyed for a lady in the area. We loved our little house and our little family we had started together. We were chugging along just fine when in the begginning of November we were faced with some tough decisions. Chase's company decided that they wanted to transfer him to antoher store in Burly. It was move or find another job. Well after much praying and weighing options we moved to Pocatello two weeks before Christmas. I reccommend if you're going to move don't do it right before Christmas, and don't do it right before finals. Haha, the added stress was a lot to handle, but as always the Lord has blessed us with amazing family that has gone above and beyond to help us out. We got a house where the Landlords work for my grandpa and are really good family friends. I got a job right away doing exactly what I did in Logan, I manage an after school program, and I have a great school scheduele. The only downside is Chase having to commute which is worrisome and scary with the winter but so far it's been great. The Lord has blessed us above and beyond what we could ever need. We can't say thank you enough and be grateful enough to our family and friends who have helped us in our crazy adventures. Chase and I are learning more and more about each other each and every day. We are learning and growing closer to our Lord who helps pick us stand when we are on our knees. The past year I have grown and learned more about myself than I could ever imagine. The blessings just keep coming. Today...We are currently in Pocatello and loving it. I have a great job, and school starts up on Monday and I am excited. Our cute little house is a home and I love our little family of the two of us. Chase goes above and beyond to work hard for our family and I am so blessed to have a best friend such as him. The past 5 months have been an adventure and I'm looking forward to the adventures that forever has to offer The Clarke Family. Now you know the start...until next time. Remember: ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!!!