Ladies beach trip = very fun times

I. Love. Girl time. Love it, love it, love it! So needless to say, I had so much fun last week on our ladies beach trip! I was so blessed to get to go to the beach with a group of my closest and dearest friends from school for a few days (Danielle Nelson, Amy Fletcher, Rebecca Adair and Temarie Kendall - love them!). Amy's family has a house at Holden Beach so we were blessed to have a free place to go and live it up :) We drove down to Myrtle one day and went to Broadway at the Beach and, of course, we knew it would be a sin to not indulge in the Tanger Outlet goodness they offered to us. So we indulged. We definitely indulged. I think I shopped more in one day than I have in the past 6 months! We had so much fun together. I laughed so, so much the entire time we were there until that dreadful moment when we all had to say good-bye and part ways. *Sigh*

My home for 3.5 beautiful days. Glorious. 

All of us at Hardrock Cafe (Danielle, Rebecca, Amy, me and Temarie)

Saying goodbye (minus Danielle - she had to sneak out early)

One of two big days:)

Well, 4 years ago I married my man :) On October 7, 2006 I became Mrs. Jeremy Blue Bryan and I haven't stopped smiling about it. I can not BELIEVE it has been 4 years!!! It has flown by. To celebrate our anniversary (well, one of our marriage/wedding anniversaries - I will explain that in a minute) we asked a sweet friend of our's, Mallory, to come keep Campbell for us. Campbell LOVES her so we knew she would be completely on board with getting us out of the house:) We decided to go to dinner and then just go downtown and grab some gellato and walk around and enjoy the scenery. Greenville has an AWESOME downtown! If you have never been you are totally missing out. We had so much fun!!! It was so much fun to sit at dinner and spend as much time talking and enjoying our meal as we wanted! And we had such a sweet time walking around downtown together. I love that man. I love him so much. It is such a blessing to know that I can be completely truthful in saying that he is my best friend and I have more fun with him than with anyone else. I love being his wife.
Ok, so I can already hear the comments coming from my friends who know our story. Long story short, in early November of 2006, about a month after our wedding, we grew concerned because we still had not recieved our Marriage Certificate in the mail. While we were away at a youth conference Blue asked me to call and find out what the deal was while he was in a meeting. After exchanging several phone calls they finally called with the answer....."Oh, we figured out what happened.........you are not legally married." What???? Excuse me?? And they said it so casually! Apparently our marriage license (in NC you have to apply for this prior to the wedding) had expired 6 days before we got married. The one time in my life I was actually pro-active it totally bit me in the butt. Me: "Well, what are we suppose to do??" Them: "You just need to come downtown and get remarried." Awesome. So now we are on staff at a church and apparently shackin' up. I feel good. Really good. So to celebrate my birthday on November 17th we headed downtown and got remarried. They asked us if we wanted to be a part of the group ceremony where are group of couples go into a room and the pastor marries all of them at one time. Honestly, I kind of wanted to just to experience it! HA! I kept telling Blue before we sealed the deal again that this was his out - if you have had any second guesses over the past month here is your chance, haha. I guess that is the mark of true love - when you marry the same girl twice in two months :)

Blue and I downtown on October 7, 2010 - FOUR YEARS!!

A few wedding pictures from the big day........well, the first big day:)

A Healthy Little Girl :)

PRAISE THE LORD. We recieved Campbell's MRI results on Monday and every thing came back completely normal!!! We are so, so, so relieved. No matter what we know the Lord still would have been faithful and abounding with love, but I am SO THANKFUL that a clean MRI was our answer! After we received good news with her EEG results we walked into the MRI with more peace and calmness, however, there was always that chunk of anxiety and worry knocking at the door. So it is such a relief and blessing to be able to throw that anxiety in the trash can and shut the lid. I am sure I will pull it back out some time soon when something completely insignificant comes along to worry about :)

Campbell did great through the test. She could not eat for 6 hours before the test (and our sweet girl loves her food) so we switched our appointment day in order to get an earlier time slot. We had to be at the hospital business office at 7 am to register and her MRI would begin at 8:30 am (which turned into a little after 9). She was SO hyper!! She was running around the waiting room in her little hospital gown with her little diaper covered rear-end poking out the back. They had to put an IV in her arm and wrapped it in an arm brace to protect it, but that did not phase her one bit. She owned the room. Her daddy was chasing her and jumping out from behind walls to surprise her and she thought it was HILLARIOUS! After she woke up from the MRI and we were in recovery she was a little loopy from the anesthesia, and I have to say, she was so funny. They told us she would seem "drunk" until we got some food in her tummy. She just kept wanting to smile at everyone and looked at them with the most adoring gaze and kept saying "bye" because that is the only word she really says right now. She was precious. Love her.

This whole experience has absolutely broken my heart for mother's who are experiencing so much worse. I can't imagine. Seeing other children in the waiting rooms during this process made my heart hurt thinking about the stories they may have and the fear their parents are carrying. I pray for these precious children and I pray for their brave parents.

Blue and I can not thank all of you enough for supporting us in prayer through this. We have always been very confident in the power of prayer, but we both agreed that we have never felt it in a more profound way. We have truly felt your love and your prayers and we are eternally grateful. We love you all so much.

Thank you, Lord!

Campbell's EEG results came back with NO ABNORMALITIES :) We are so very thankful! She has a MRI scheduled for next Friday, October 8th, but we all are very confident everything will come back alright - but please still pray :) We thank the Lord for His blanket of protection! We also thank Him for such an awesome pediatric medical team that has walked us through this. Our pediatric neurologist sat with us for around an hour today discussing everything with us and being as informative as possible - which definitely won her a gold star in my book. Make that five gold stars :)

Praise the Lord!!!