Summer 2014 Recap: New Job, New Jersey, New York, etc

This summer has been busy and full of all kinds of adventures.

First, Andrew got a new job at GE Aviation for which we can only thank and praise God.  We have been praying for a full time hired in position (which included benefits) for a while and now God has led us to that.  We are very thankful for the secure job position and he greatly enjoys working with his new team members.

Second, we celebrated our 4th Anniversary in New Jersey.  We didn't do anything special, just hanging out with family and friends at the rehearsal dinner for my brother's wedding.  Which brings me to....

Third, we traveled 11 hours to New Jersey for a very special event in the family: my brother's wedding!  1st brother to get married, 1st sis-in-law for us girls, and 1st out of state wedding for our family!  That is a lot of firsts for us, but we enjoyed every bit of it!  We welcome you into our family, Leah, and hope you will soon feel at home with all us crazy Moerdyks here in Michigan. :)

(You will have to forgive Avery in this photo, as it was 10pm and she could hardly keep her eyes open.

The poor girl fell asleep in my arms on our way out to the vehicle, 10 min after this photo was taken.)

Fourth, we toured Ellis Island and Liberty Island the day after the wedding.  We listened and learned lots of information from the audio tours, admired all the architecture, and enjoyed the scenery of the city skyline.

 An old Fire Boat 

Now that things have settle down into a regular routine, I hope share things a little more frequently.  No promises, because I know how quickly time can fly by before you know it and it has been a while since the last post.  Well, that is all for now.  Hope you enjoyed our little visit through our pictures.  :)

Congrats Ian & Lenelle!

Wishing my sister, Lenelle, and her new husband, Ian, a wonderful and happy married life together.  May God richly be with them as they start their life together.

~One Year~

One year ago I married my best friend and I am still happily married to him today and love him even more!


Here is a little history for the special occasion and a few pictures to go with it.

Fall of 2006
It all began when I was invited for dinner at this new seminary student's house, whose wife had similar interests as I did in design, etc.  While I was there for lunch, I looked through their wedding album and as we got to a picture of their bridal party and family picture, I was kindly pointed out a nice young man that was part of the bridal party and family who was 'still single and my age'.  How convenient!  I laughed it off as did to everyone who tried to be 'helpful' and point out nice young guys for me.

February 29, 2007

I saw Andrew (and his brother) for the first time in church (as he was down visiting his brother and sister-in-law) and then again at his brother's house that evening for his sister-in-law's birthday party.  I was duly warned that he was coming down for the birthday party.  We didn't say but 2 words to each other this whole night, however, but we did catch each other's eye in the narthex of church.

About a month after, Andrew decided to come down on his own 'for a visit'.... and maybe to have a chance to be able to see and talk to this girl that he has so much interest in.  It was at this time that we exchanged emails and started communicating with each other.  Andrew came down for a visit a couple times after that, but we simply communicated via email for the most part that year.

March 2008

Andrew came down for his niece's baptism.  It had been some time since we had seen each other so we couldn't stop talking to each other after church.  At that point I knew I was definitely interested in moving forward into something more serious.

July 18, 2008

Andrew and I officially started dating.
From then on, we traveled back and forth every other weekend to visit each other.  At the time it was only a 4.5 hour drive for us so it didn't seem that long.   When you are traveling to visit someone you are head over heals for, the time just flies by!

September 19, 2009

Engagement!

Andrew surprised me in Grand Haven with a beautiful ring and the sunset in the back ground.  He was not alone!  He had my whole family up there with him and one of my girl friends and her boyfriend at the time.

You can read about that {HERE}.

July 31, 2010

Wedding bells were ringing!

We were happily married this beautiful sunny day.  I couldn't have asked for a better day.  Everything went very smoothly (with a couple bumps which nobody notices anyways) but other than that, I really can't complain.  I hope everyone else also enjoyed themselves as much as we did!  You can look at the rest of the wedding details {HERE}.

July 31, 2011

It is now one year later... and now look at us!

We continually fall in love with each other every day that we are married!  We celebrated our anniversary by going away for a few days the beginning of July and then out for dinner the night before (since our anniversary landed on a Sunday).

I hope you enjoyed the review of our life together as much as I did while I was putting this post together!