1 year equals 1 step closer to our eternity

Wow three postings in one month! I am either A. proactive or B. trying to avoid studying for my anatomy final lol but either way I am happy to give you more updates of the Cumbie Family.  So Today officially marks the 1 year anniversary of mine and Kathys marriage.  We had nothing but loads of fun for Saturday to celebrate this wonderful celebration! We kicked off our Saturday with some good old pioneer breakfast with our ward in Rocklin! Such good food, people and great California weather!  It just reminds us of the hard work and dedication our church did to continue forth this great work. After we enjoyed a belly full of good food and good social company we decided to head to the mall because my wife wanted to "get something" aka find me a gift for our anniversary. My wife also showed me this awesome candy store we found in the mall here in Roseville!  No joke they had literally all my old child hood candies ever! They had jujubes, pez dispensers and they even had some of the best German/dutch chocolate!! Then my wife took me to the Vans store to spoil me with some new and fashionable vans :) She picked out the best pair ever and I love them! Then for our one year anniversary we went to this place called Flame & Fire for our One year anniversary! By far some of the best meat you could ever have. We had steak, garlic chicken, bacon wrap chicken and many more goodies!  Not only that but the restaurant gave us a complimentary desert in celebration of our anniversary!  Then we spent the entire night talking about our life, our goals and our unwritten story to come for our family.  It is crazy to think that one year has already passed by for us..I remember the first day I saw here almost two years ago.  I just arrived in the states from overseas and was just starting to get settled in and getting to know people.  Then I choose to head to this Roseville dance that our YSA ward was hosting.  I went alone, and mostly was in hopes to meet and find some new friends there. I feel though the lord wanted me to be there mostly to find my true love.  I was very shy and scared to ask anyone to dance because in all honest I was still new there but I found the courage to ask a cute girl to dance..My wife.  Ever since that day I have not regretted having the courage to ask her to dance.  Because for that dance was the beginning of our love to grow for one another.  Each day I was falling in love her more and more.  I still remember to this day....She was organizing a dance for the Davis YSA word and I was there helping set it up and during that night we were dancing as a couple, I began to see her not only as my girlfriend but my wife, the mother to my children and overall my eternal friend.  She saw in me something I feel I never could see...Hope.  She is the only one I have ever known to believe in me and make me realize I have so much to offer.  For that I am grateful to have this bond of marriage with her.  For this I think my lord for our love to unite us as one and makes us both complete.  I will always keep loving her, to the moon and back.

Happy Anniversary!!

Gifts!

Pioneer day at our church! And Momma Cumbie in training!

Happy Anniversary!!

Chocolate Goodies!
 

Well that is all I have for now but I would like to end this with a poem that I am working on for our child but please bear with me it is still a rough draft :) enjoy!:

Angel from Above

When we found out you existed we became alive.
For your breath is what will make us thrive.
When we prayed for you above, he sent us your love.
The moment I saw your face, it was forever traced in my mind.
We dream of you night and day.
In our dreams we see your angelic features.
We feel your presence from heaven above.
You are our light, hope, faith and strength.
You are our angel from above

Summer Times!

Well this summer has been an interesting summer.  Kathy is working hard and long at her job, I have been going to summer school and choose to do anatomy in the summer! Yikes! It has been hard but totally worth it.  I feel as I begin to get into these studies and learn about the human body it makes me just realize how amazing our bodies are.  I mean they are created in the image of our father above :)  Not only that but it has been wonderful getting to know my baby.  We went to our third appointment and got to see our baby on the big screen, no joke!  The lady did a fun jelly rub on my wife's belly and we got to see in the screen our baby.  I could not stop smiling, it was incredible to see our far our baby has come from being a little embryo, to life.  Our baby right now is big and strong, just like his mom and pop :) I decided a few nights ago with my wife that I need to strengthen my Spanish skills.  I took Spanish in the spring and well did so so on it lol but I really want to better my Spanish skills so my child may have the gift of tongues aka language. I also feel I need to start trying to talk to my baby more so that he/she may recognize my voice and feel comfort from it. Another fun thing Kathy and I got to do was go to a fireworks show in Lincoln.  It was a blast, my wife got to get a corn on the cob stick Mexican style and her love for flaming Cheetos.  The fire works was awesome, sadly we did not get many pictures from it because of our phones dying but I got an awesome video clip of the firework show.  Also right now I am trying to find some part time work while I go to school, so far had one interview but haven't gotten a call back yet.  Hopefully something good will come from it or down the road I can find some part time employment.  I am just praying the lord can help me find work and be able to bring in a little more income for our family of 3 :) We also had a fun night of FHE with my wife and I.  It may be kiddy but I set up a lesson where we read the family proclamation and draw what is the family proclamation to us.  It was a fun success of cute drawings and spiritual feelings. I feel the more we study and learn that, the better we can center our family around our saviors love.On top of this I have had some major changes going on with me internally from learning of Christ's love. I have been reading the book miracle of forgiveness by Spencer W. Kimball and let me tell you it is an eye opening book to the saviors love for us all. I feel each time I read it I am grasping more of what the atonement is suppose to do for us.  I am hoping I can take these principles and apply them in my life daily.  Well that is all I have for now, hope you all enjoyed this post as much as I did.  I will leave you with a fun scripture quote of the day.

Matt 5:8 "Purity of heart means perfection; and the perfect will not only see God but will have friendship with him."

Anatomy fun! Heart Dissection

FHE Drawings Mine :)

My wife's :)

Fireworks!

Our babies Progress (6 weeks, 9 weeks, and 13 weeks)

Well have a great week everyone and hope to post more fun photos of our family adventures with the Cumbie home!

Marriage, Going to school, and New bundle of joy

Well it has been along time since I have updated anything..I promise you I will try to be much more up to date on this Blog :)  Well since last march I spoke to you of a girl that I was very much in love with and just head over heels for..Well I asked her to be my bride for all time and eternity, we have been married now for almost a year..It is crazy how time flies, it was just a year ago I was getting ready to marry her and it is crazy but exciting to be here today with her, not only with her but the beginning of our family, our bundle of joy coming to us in January 2015..Not only that but I have gone back to school. I got out in December 2013 from active duty and now find my self in the reserves and going to school full time at Sierra College..I know I spoke of transferring to San Diego State or maybe UC Davis but we decided as a family to stay here one more year and move down to San Diego next fall...I know this will be a hard and much challenging move for our family, especially with the baby coming and that will probably be the most challenging for our family but I know it will be worth it...I think this last year has been full of surprises, trials, success but the main center for all of this has been our love for one another and our love to our savior..

Timeline from April 2013 to July 2014:

Proposal in San Francisco

Our beautiful wedding day 

Our fun honey moon to Puerto Rico 

Were in jail!

Fall time fun

Cute engagement photos!

Christmas fun!

Ice skating time!

Baby annoucement!! Happiest day of our lives!

Baby Cumbie #1

Hope you all enjoy this post as much as I did, it makes me realize just how blessed I am.  I know because of my father in heaven he has blessed my family and I greatly! I love him and will always choose this gospel and his love always and forever!

Journey onward to all time and eternity...

Well it has been a long, long, long time since I last blogged.  It has been literally a lil over 2 months since my last post about my dream girl.  Well guess what that dream became reality when I proposed to her on the beaches of San Francisco :)  It was so much fun and exciting for the both of us.

The Ring Bling

This is a link that can take you to our video of the proposal..Made by my best friend Travis Dunn and with Amelia's help as well :)

http://vimeo.com/63539321

Here are some more fun pics of our visit to San Fran

Happy Day!

Creeper! lol

We be loco in the moco

Waiting for the bus, they did silly faces and I did smiley face lol

How you doing??? Yaaaa

We are just such silly people :)

So far are plans have been slowly coming together as we become one with another Kathy and I.

Well it has been a long time since I have written in here.  A lot has happen since I moved here to good ol' California.  I don't even know where to begin.  Let's start with the most important ones:

1.  I met the girl of my dreams here, her name is Kathy Guevara.  We ran into each other at a dance and let me tell you I was knocked down with massive love boulders.  She looked so beautiful and yet so genuine.  I was a bit of a loser because well I didn't ask her to dance for a very long time, to the point I asked her at the last song.  I was glad I had found the courage to ask her that because if I
hadn't I am sure I would of missed a great opportunity and adventure that I have with her now. 

We are now 5 months in our relationship, and I can not picture myself with anyone else at all.  She has a heart of a women of the gospel, courage as one of the stripling warriors in Alma, the smarts of Albert Einstein, and overall a women who has my heart. I love you Kathy Guevara

2.  I have a new job that is both demanding and tiring..I do find it trying at times but I know that this job right now is to help me with what ever I need working on.  It teaches me to be patient, to lead and overall to learn how to be a hard worker.  I am in charge of a 6 man shop and I have to spend countless hours grooming those under me into leaders, while at the same time learn something from them.  I always keep thinking of quote I heard one time about leaders ,"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower.  I see that quote and think it is so true and start noticing that with in my work center.  I can tell my guys every day to do that job but until I help them know why they must do it, I will get no result.  I mostly come at this with love because genuinely I like to think I really care about them.  I hope I can continue this with them and make a great leader and friend.

3.  Finally I have decided come next summer I will be doing the reserves and moving to San Diego possibly for school. The process on this took a long and hard time to do.  Mainly cause I asked first UC Davis and accepted there but I still had to take 4 more classes before attending there.  Then when I applied at San Diego state it showed I still need some classes there.  I came to realize I will need to focus on one more year active in the air force, finish those classes and then go reserves and move next summer to the school I choose to attend at.  I know that this is a good choose because I realize even though I am doing a good job and making an effort and my job, I feel full time active duty in the military is not what I want for my future family.  I always and will make them my first priority and feel I won't have that with the job I have now. 

4.  Finally I had an awesome color run I got to share with my friends here in California.  It was by far one of the best runs I have ever experienced and gone through.  I think everyone should try to do one at least once in there life.

It was filled with color, sweat, laughs and overall days of finally cleaning off the color.  I am starting to love California a whole lot here.  It is by far one of my best decisions I have made in my life.  I know heavenly gives us agency because he wants us to make the choice on our own and to learn from those choices.  I know that if we listen to the spirit, aline our will to God, and overall serve him we will be happy with the choices we make.  It will be hard to understand at first but I know the lord put us here for a reason and that we must do all that we can to endure to the end. 

What happens when you Move to California!

OK so it has been awhile since I posted here but I found a day to actually blog for a moment. A lot has happened since we last spoke. I was living at a hotel on base for awhile and awaiting my new apt, car and overall life. I was able to find a new car and get the financial and legal things cleared with it. I am now a new owner of a 2010 Toyota Corolla LE.

This took a lot of patience, time and resources to happen but in the end I was able to over come it and have this wonderful vehicle. The next thing is I finally found a new home for me to live in. It is in the city called Rocklin and I already love this little area and my apartment is a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment of 950 square feet. Not huge but works perfect for me. I put a 9 month lease on it in case I can find roommates down the road and can find something cheaper but for now this will do. One thing I have learned is that it is so important for us to save and prepare for tomorrow because of all the money I have saved when I was in Belgium as no kidding paid off. Because of all the financial en devours I dealt with my savings haves in all reality paid off! I thank the lord for helping me to be a better person in finance and budgeting. 

Some fun pics of my house, mind you I am still sorting all my stuff out and it looks better now and today I get my furniture! So this is not the way I live lol :)

 

Another fun story was I went to this regional YSA activity for the church where we had a mud obstacle course and a color war which was loads of fun! Even better I ran into one of the missionaries I meet in the Netherlands there and we did it together which was so nice because I did not know anyone there. It is interesting the small church world we live in. 

His name is Elder Ryan Leash and the handsome gentle men to your left is me :)

Any who also I got to meet some neat people from Davis area at the Roseville dance that we had awhile ago. This gal here invited me to a fun hiking trip with her church at Lake Berryessa. So much fun and overall so much beauty :) 

 

Then last an final I got to go to the Sacramento Temple. Such a beautiful and peaceful places to be at.  I forget so much how much beauty and wonder that goes on in the house of the lord. Makes me realizes how much I need to continue this service, especially since it is so close to me know! I hope to go as often as possible and continue do the lords work in his house. 

Right now I just feel truly blessed since I have returned state side. I have found friends, new peace, and also challenges that not hurt me but improve me. I was listening to a song and it said that trials do not define us but they refine us. I know I have a lot of trials ahead of me and some will be harder then others BUT I know this that Heavenly Father has a plan for us, he is here for us and that we are not alone because we have our savior. I hope an pray that all of us are doing well and that in time of our struggles and burdens that if we can not find the strength to stand, that we go to our knees and pray for the strength to stand again. Also one thing to share last week I had a inspiring moment when I got to teach in Elder's Quorum I got to teach on Elder Richard G. Scott talk on  revelation and inspiration in our lives. It was amazing cause it taught and shown me the ways I can receive these for my own personal life. It was hard also to be willing to share a story about a friend of mine who had passed away a year ago and how it was hard for me to know I didn't listen to the inspiration to share with him the gospel. I felt though the holy ghost testify that I should share and explain that Jesus forgave me and gave me a blessed opportunity to speak with his girl friend who is also the mother of his child. I got to share the Book of Mormon with her and give a picture of Jesus Christ, to show to her that the savior is here for her and that there is a plan for them to see each other again. I know that these things are true and I am blessed cause of it. I hope you enjoyed my fun and crazy stories hopefully I can keep up to date better with my blog! For now take care brothers and sisters and may God be with you till we meet again! Love you all!!

Welcome to Beale AFB, MOOOO....

Well I made it here finally, it took 17 hours and several minutes but I made it. I am right now staying at the hotel on base and it isn't a bad room but not great either. I met my sponsor and she was super awesome and nice. She has been helpful getting me set up and helping my succeed so to me that is a plus. Right now I am in-processing the base (for you none military folks, it just means they are getting me set up here at the base.) and so far they are unsure where to put me. I will hopefully know where I will be working and hope that it isn't something to hard for me but what ever the challenge I will take it on full. So I want to give you all a picture of what it is like staying here at Beale AFB and what the base looks like.

Beale AFB


It is no joke also, that is the lay out of the base. When I was told it was spread out, they were not joking. I mean it is much bigger them my last area but for reals it is the country but honestly I love it and can't stop smiling on how happy I am to be here. Because really I feel the lord has blessed me with being at this new area :).

This weekend was a lot of fun because I got to hang with my good old buddy Travis! We go went to eat at olive garden, then stay at Travis AFB and watch a hilarious movie called Cabin in the Woods. I laughed really hard at that movie, "I never do." Watch the movie and you will get what I am talking about. Then we got to hang out in good old San Fran and that was just a lot fun, especially cause I got to see my other friend Amelia.



Right now I am not working just yet because it means I am house hunting and car hunting as well. So far my success on that is 0 %. But hey I am going to stay strong, right now I have been looking in the Lincoln area and sadly only have one option there because of the income restrictions. Which means I am just a little over the income to be accepted there sooo that means looking at other areas. I don't like looking at the other places because it means either to far and slightly expensive or I choose the ones near me, and now I am far from the church I would like to attend to. So right now I am at a lost, and feel like I will have to make some sacrifices. Hopefully the lord will keep strong regardless of where I live.

I went on a nice drive today in the area and realize how neat it is living in the country though as well and makes me kinda like here but feel I need to for once live closer to the YSA community. I went yesterday for the first time to a YSA scripture night. We had a good chat and read in 4 Nephi 1 & Mormon 1. It 4 Nephi Chpt 1 it discuss of the time when Christ came to visit them all and help establish peace to the area. Then Years (200 years or so) later they began to dwindle in unbelief and begin to reject the gospel. It is sad to think that sometimes it is so easy for us to forget and also for us to continue to teach about Christ to our younger generation. Not only that but overall how we as humans so easily forget about the savior. I was glad to hear that lesson because it teaches me that through those busy moment in my life I need to not forget him and to remember he will always be there with us, as long as we allow him to be in our life.

Well that is all I have for now and hopefully next entry I will be able to give you an update of my new car and new apartment. I love you all and pray that God be with you always.