Before God and these Witnesses

Four months ago today. My love became my love. I love this picture because this is where our marriage all began, before God. It is God who sustains us and keeps us, He is the one who orchestrated our lives and brought us to that special day. He is so kind to us! I can't believe it has only been four months. For some reason it feels like Seth and I have been together for forever. I can't imagine my life without him in it.

This past week God has given me so much joy, not just in the season we are in, but more joy in loving and serving Seth. Whether through the mundane tasks of folding laundry and cleaning up I love to serve him and feel so grateful for the way that he daily serves and provides for our family. He never complains and day in day out goes to work and works so hard for us! I am so grateful for you my dear one.

When we joined our lives together it wasn't just before God, but others. So many of whom we count our dearest family and closest friends. Apart from those people, whom God used in our lives, we never would have reached that day. We are so grateful for the investment that people have made in our lives in how they love and care for us, correct, and encourage us. We thank God so much for so many of you and we love to pray for you!
And as a belated Happy Mothers Day to our wonderful Mommy's who loved us and cared for us for so many years before we became our own family.

We LOVE you both so much and are so grateful for the role that you played in raising us and sacrificing so much for our best!

Odds and Ends

What's new with us? Our camera broke. It's pretty sad. This is the most recent picture of us (Thanks Kurt) taken at our good friends David and Casey's wedding this past weekend. Going to wedding as a married couple is the best. Before when we were courting and engaged it was a joy as we looked to our future wedding day, but now it brings us even more joy to look back and see how much marriage keeps getting better and better each and every day. There are even more moments throughout the day when Seth will do something and then I will realize, "wow that is why we are so perfect for each other." God is so good to us and I can't help but marvel at his amazing grace in bringing us together to this special day(photocredit goes to my wonderful former coworker Mindy who ventured out in the snow to come and celebrate with us on our special day):


Tonight while we were out for date night, we spent some time looking back...to the beginning, before we were ever really friends. It's so neat to look back at those things and realize that we had NO clue we would end up together, but God knew. The Creator of the Universe was leading us to each other in His perfect time. It never came at a moment too late or a moment too soon. He knew what was best. Because of his past faithfulness to us, we can continue to trust Him for his continued faithfulness to us into the future(even for a new camera for us newlyweds!)

What's the latest with us? We both have fully recovered from all sickness' and ailments! Hooray! We are both dealing with the usual seasonal allergies right now, but who isn't?!?! And God has been providing Seth so much work at his job with ARI for which we are incredibly grateful. This month is looking to be quite busy and at the end of it all we will be going to the New Attitude Conference in Louisville, KY. One huge reason we are exicted about this time...we will be driving there and back with Dre and Becca Kless, which is bound to make for lots of memories and potty stops along the way. We are so grateful for these two and can't wait to make the trip together, apparently we are leaving at 3am (hence the adventure of it all!)

As I have been learning more and more about being a wife I have become even more passionate about sales, just outside the mall, instead I have chanelled my interests into grocery shopping. How does this translate you are probably wondering? Well it usually means that Jenni and I will talk about once a week to trade sale tips (I took her up on one and went to the store and loaded up on chicken breasts at $1.79/lb.) and that usually involves sharing things I saw while I was at the store, like vine ripe tomatoes for .99/lb at Safeway this week or her letting me know about the deals she found. (If you have coupons it gets even better! )This week at Giant Turkey Hill Ice Cream was on sale for $1.99 for a half gallon, it being hubby and I's favorite ice cream how can you not buy three half gallons? The sad part is...we have $1 off coupons but didn't get back fast enough to use them(sigh). But it's been great fun learning what good prices are and now that we have a second fridge (thank you Lord) it has made stocking up to save so much better. But in all of this I have to thank my Mom for training me well to look for the deals and for teaching me how to have my own stocked reserve pantry in the basement. Thanks Mom! I always think of you when its time to grocery shop. :)