Today is the day!

Well, we finally did it!

Trey and I have been talking about starting a blog for some time now and today is the day. Our main inspiration for starting this blog is to keep our family and closest friends up to date and involved in our lives. This has proved difficult in the past seeing as how some of our friends live in California, Arkansas, North Carolina, Thailand and soon to be Israel, while we live in Alabama. There are also many people in Alabama we are unable to see as often as we would like. We do not want this to replace face-to-face or telephone contact. We do desire that it be a means to keep our loved ones close and involved.

So here we are. Me and my handsome husband.

We have been married for almost a year and a half and we are loving every minute of it. The Lord has been so gracious to bless us with each other and a wonderful marriage. Even so, we are still two sinners trying to live lives worthy of the gospel. I am so thankful that we serve a gracious, forgiving and loving God for the many times that we fail to live in such a manner.

The other member of our family is Sully. The most awesome dog ever! Isn't he cute?!

We chose the title of the blog, as yes, a play on our last name, Gallant, but the adjective "gallant" means to be courageous or brave. But more importantly, we chose it based off of what the Bible teaches us in 2 Peter 3:17-18. "You therefore, beloved, knowing this before hand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen." We desire to live our life together growing gallantly in the knowledge and understanding of Christ our Lord. Our prayer is that we never become complacent in thinking there is no growth or knowledge to be had. We desire that as the Lord grows us, others may see and hear and God will be glorified.

There is a lot going on in our life to blog about, but we will leave it at this for the first blog. So be looking for another post in the near future.