Welcome to the Wood family blog! I'm the wife (Autumn) who is the blogger. This has been a crazy life but amazing! I can say I married my prince charming, soul-mate when I was only 19 years old. Our friends and family thought we were crazy, and lets face it... So did we. We only dated for 3 months before Blake proposed in front of the Disneyland Cinderella Castle. It was the most emotional (in a good way) beautiful moment, that I will cherish forever. At the time Blake attended Arizona State University but didn't feel like he belonged. He had a calling. He dropped out and joined the United States Marines. I swore to myself I would never get married young (I come from a divorced family) and definitely never a military man. Ha! God had other plans for me.
Blake and I knew each other in high school but we were dating other people. When we both became available and realized we had feelings for each other, we decided to date during summer. Little behold a summer fling turned into a life time of love! We were (and still are) so smitten for each other. He got down on one knee and the rest is history! It was a short engagement as we tied the knot (Jan. 18, 2008) the second he graduated boot-camp. It was a small quiet ceremony and I wouldn't change a thing. Looking back now, shows two love birds who had no money and were young and in love. It wasn't about the big "show." Just him and I. Perfection. A week after our wedding he went back to the fleet stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA.
We are from California so it was perfect location for us. Right on the beach too, such a bonus! He served 4
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years as a mortar-man and I volunteered in his battalion for the wives. It was great to be involved. I did have a couple here and there jobs but because I would move back and forth so much (between deployments) I couldn't hold onto one. After 2 deployments we agreed this life was not for us. It took a big toll on us, we lost how to communicate and every time he would come back we had a lot of issues to work through. Blake decided he wanted to "provide" a better home for us and our future family. I never told him to leave and I always said I would have his back.
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Back to school he went using the GI Bill at Cal State Northridge, CA. I also went to school (now that I had time to) at Paul Mitchell Sherman Oaks, CA. Shortly after my enrollment we were both ready to extend our family. On May 19, 2013 our beautiful baby girl Olivia Paige was born! The best day of our lives! I thought I loved my husband more than anything but the second I looked into her eyes a love that I have never felt before. She is a perfect mix of the two of us. Blake is finally graduating from CSUN this fall (2014) and he already landed his first accounting job!!! So proud of him! He has been working 50 plus hours a week and taking 4-5 classes per semester! He is our superman! As of now I plan on being a stay at home mom (which I never thought I would be) and possibly later down the road finish up my cosmetology career. I'm thankful Blake wants me to be home and raise our family. Most families have both parents working. I know I will cherish every moment I have being "home" with our family.
So here we are... Coming up on 7 years of marriage and our beautiful family. It hasn't always been an easy, smooth road but at the end of the day we have each other. There will always be challenges in life and you can either work through it or take the easy way out. This is our story of a "real" American family of this hectic thing we call life! God has truly blessed us!
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