6 Year Ago Today We…

Today we celebrate 6 blessed years of marriage!

Hard to believe it has been 6 years – but then we think about what has all happened in those 6 years and we ask ourselves – really? Has it only been 6 years?

On May 12, 2006, it was a cold and rainy 39 degree day, but it did not put a damper on it one bit. I honestly forgot about the fact that we couldn’t do any pictures outside. I forgot about the weather. We were just so ready to be married and start our life together.

We have learned so much since that day in 2006. Honestly, our first year was hard – I know people say that is often the case. Well, we fell into that statistic. Why was it hard? We just had SO many changes so quickly. We had just graduated college, I moved down to St. Joseph, moved into our house, Dan started full-time, all in two weeks. It was a little much. With Dan starting out full-time in ministry, it took us awhile to figure out what we wanted our lifestyle to look like. We were two independent people, trying to become one mind.

One mind.

Easier said than done.

Dan was on high doses of ADD meds and we knew that we had to do something about that – it just was not healthy for either of us. Med crashes were an everyday occurrence. After Dan did biofeedback, that helped tremendously (granted that was 2 years later). I had health issues that caused us to have to think about things that we weren’t necessarily ready to think about, like kids and the possibility of another heart surgery.

For us it just took time to get in the groove of what we wanted our life to look like.

Are we completely of one mind? No. But are we 100x closer than we were when we first met? Oh yeah! I never knew I could love the way I love Dan. I never thought I would miss someone as much as I miss Dan when he is gone on trips. We love to do everything together – run errands together – do ministry together – take walks together – pray together – sit and say nothing together. Sometimes we love to just “be.”

As we look ahead to this next year of marriage, our hearts are drawn to the fact that we could soon be parents at this time next year. Wowzers. We are eager to see where this gestational carrier process takes us. We are excited to continue serving God and growing in our relationship with Him. We are excited to see what God has in store for us. We have learned SO MUCH in this past year through all of the events He has brought us through.

And we praise God that we have been able to go through them all

TOGETHER