Where did I leave off?

It has been CRAZY around the Rigdon household.

I had been having an health issue since November. At first we thought it was nothing and it would go away in due time. Well 7 months later and finally getting insurance to be able to go to the doctor. I go. She was not completely worried but definitely made me see the bigger picture if I had waited much longer.. She gave me the medicine and the medicine ran its course. While it was very painful during the process. I am back to normal..

DH started football about 2 weeks ago. I am so very excited for him. He is going to do a fantastic job. He is already looking ahead and thinking about what is going to help us in the future. Eventually I want to be a stay at home mom and be able to love on my babies.

We have talked about the kid factor, it seems like a lot lately. Which I absolutely in LOVE that we are thinking about starting to try, even though that it might not be in the immediate furture, but soon enough we have to start thinking about saving, weight loss, and things of that nature.

Other than the normal stuff. There isn't much to update on. Work is good, Married life is good.

It's Friday which means the weekend is almost here. So I hope everyone has a blessed weekend.

{i heart the skinny mirror}

You all know what I'm talking about whether or not you have ever named them: the skinny mirror, and the not so skinny mirror. Some clothing retailers get this small dressing room nuance completely right. Some just do not. With a certain tilt of the mirrored glass and the precise angle of the lighting fixture, a shopping experience can be glorious or disastrous.

On a regular trip to my favorite store with a friend, I encountered the not so skinny mirror. Those darling jeans clung to the wrong curves. That chic tank top did nothing for my figure. The bathing suit was beyond description. Within a matter of minutes the thrill of the bargain buy accelerated into a tailspin of self-critique. My mind was consumed with how I looked as I allowed the not so skinny mirror to determine my mood for the rest of the afternoon.

But before I infected my shopping partner with my self-pity, I felt the Lord say in my heart something I have not forgotten since this whole run in with that ill-fated mirror.

Meghan, your beauty and worth are not determined by what you see in a mirror. Take your focus off of yourself and find focus on Me.

Find focus on Him. A sense of relief came over me as I inhaled and exhaled those words.

These four words have become my battle cry when I face both the not so skinny mirror and the skinny mirror. Anytime I am more consumed with myself than I am with God, I focus on everything that is wrong in my life. {Hence the episode mentioned above!} On the flip side, anytime that I am more consumed with God than myself, I am better equipped to walk out of that dressing room with the understanding that I am ok. I recount the ways that He thinks I am beautiful; reminded that I am His creation and He finds me special.

So, I find focus on Him and I get over myself. It's a simple yet complicated truth, but one worth playing over and over in my mind. Maybe one day, God won't have to give me the pep talk as I step before the not so skinny mirror. But for now, I will go on facing it with His truth in my heart.

Honeymoon, Moving, Etc...

So I know we have been married for 16 days now and I am just now posting about our wedding and honeymoon.. It's been a little bit CRAZY lately...

Our wedding was PERFECT.. Everything I had imagined... Wedding started on time, no last minute emergencies, etc.. PERFECT..

For our honeymoon we went to Lake Conroe in Willis, Texas.. It again was PERFECT. Our condo was right on the lake, we ate breakfast on the balcony that was looking over the lake, J got to fish off the balcony everyday (and YES, I let him), one day we went down to Brazoria to eat with his aunt and then drove along the costal highway to Galveston where we rode the ferry, walked along the beach and picked up seashells so we can make a cross for our crosswall. Then we drove to Kemah where we ate at The Aquarium (pretty neat, but I wouldn't eat there again). We pretty much spent most of our time in our condo spending time with each other and relaxing...

We got back on the 12th and the following week was J's SB and he packed our stuff and got us all ready to move...Which we did this past weekend. We moved all the furniture and stuff on Friday and started unpacking on Saturday and decorated.. We almost have the whole house done. Besides a few boxes.

I will have to take pictures of everything and post them... So I guess all in all my first 16 days of being a MARRIED woman has been GREAT.

I LOVE my HUSBAND, my HOUSE, and our FURRY little CHILD aka dog :  )

Love & Belief,

Meghan

We signed the LEASE on our first place : )

Since we are getting married in March I figured it would be a good time to get out from under my parents wings and begin soaring through adult life.. This past week has shown me A LOT of what I was missing out on and showed me who I am becoming and a little bit of what GOD has in store for us.

We had been looking at places and we needed something close to SAGU so when J goes back there next semester he will be able to get there without having a car (since I will have the car driving to 1 of my 2 jobs, more on that below).. We had visited 4 apartment/townhomes complexs. All too high for our budget at the moment and too far away from SAGU... We drove over by the GU and turned the corner and saw this house that had been made into a duplex. I called the number and asked about the space for rent.. 2 bds 2 bths large kitchen... PERFECT.... We immediately drove to the lady's house and picked up an application. Jeromy and I filled it out and we began praying "Lord, if this is where we are supposed to be then we know that you will make it happen." Well we went and looked at the space on Wed. of last week. We gave her the application and she said that she would start calling our references. : ) By Saturday we were told that all we needed to do was to give her the deposit. Monday of this week we gave her the deposit, signed the lease, and got the keys : ) Needless to say we are both SUPER excited and thrilled to have a place we can call our own.

I recently began working another job. So now I have 2. I still work at the Roomstore and now I work for a Law firm with offices in Dallas and Fort Worth. I will be traveling to both every other week. I am super excited about the job and opportunity that it will give me.

We have trusted the Lord with all our this far and we will continue to do so. As well as adopt that saying.. As for me and my house we will serve the LORD : )

I will have to post pictures once we get everything set up and decorated :  )