Loving my Man

Our Love Story: The Beginning

I thought it was time to dedicate a series to my man. Joe and I started dating my freshman year of college.  Joe is four years older than me and we grew up in church together. I always say that Joe never gave me the time of day when I was younger. I don't remember ever talking to him. Then the summer after I graduated high school, all of my friends ended up at the house he was renting with his friends, including my brother. I went to visit my friend who was interning at a church and Joe was brought up to speak one night. That's when I remember thinking that Joe is really a nice guy! That was probably the first time he ever talked to me. But my being realistic thought this could never happen so I did what any normal girl would do, I would avoid him! I didn't want to seem stupid! But not very long later, we'll say God opened his eyes to me! My favorite part is that Joe didn't tell me his feelings for me until after I left for college and he was four hours away at home!

That is one of our first pictures taken together almost 6 years ago. I don't really look any different! There are still days when I think to myself, I married Joe?! How did that happen? I say God has a sense of humor!




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Wedding Anniversary

Last Sunday was our 1 year wedding anniversary! We spent the day in Evansville and then traveled down to Joe's parent's lake house in Kentucky for the week. I really enjoyed watching our wedding ceremony again and looking back on this las year together. (If you haven't seen our wedding video, you need to see it here.

It has been the best and the quickest year of my life! We have really started to mold our life together, adjusted to each other and building upon our marriage. To all who have yet been married, know that marriage takes work and effort in order to make it work, but so worth it!

I love my husband!

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Marriage Lessons

Joe and I are doing pre-marital counseling with a couple who is going to get married in June. We also invited our youth pastor and his wife to the session. It was a great time discussing and reflecting on marriage.

I think 9 months ago before we got married, I would tell you marriage is a lot like dating but living together. What I am leaning is how much partnership there is in marriage. Got created marriage to unite a man and a woman. Even small decisions I make can affect out whole marriage. Joe is supposed to be the most important person in the world to me, even more important than my future children.

It's been a great time for me to reflect and see the ways that I am loving and serving Joe. I pray that we have 50 years together!

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Make sure to spend it with those you love!

I just put our Pot Roast in the oven tonight for our VDay Meal (because I refuse to get out in that mess on V-Day on a Saturday). Joe left me some potted tulips before he left for basketball this morning which are beautiful!

Here's to our first married Valentine's Day!

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Happy Anniversary

Today at work after running to grab some food, I came back to the desk where I was anwering phone calls to find this at my desk.

Hubby sent me flowers for our four year anniversary. November 7th was the day we first got together and he remembered!

Even Levi had to stop and smell the flowers!

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Peace Making

On Monday night, Joe and I along with Mike who is the Discipleship Pastor at our church and his wife April, attended a conference at Southern Seminary (where Joe attends) on Peacemaking for Marriage. Ken Sande, the author of The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict was the speaker and did a really good job of providing Biblical and Simple ways of bringing peace in your marriage. What really struck me was when Ken said that good communication is not the key to marriage because good communicators can also be good manipulators. The key to a Biblical marriage is forgiveness. That is something so simple but so hard in any relationship but important in displaying God's love. I know that I can personally harbor bad feelings for days without speaking of them but it can show in my attitude or how I treat Joe. Monday night was a good reminder to breathe grace to the people around me, especially to my husband.

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

John 13:34-35

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I Love my Husband!

I love my husband! See I hate to do the dishes...hate them. I even convinced Joe to get a disherwasher for the house before I moved in and I still hate them. After date night on Thursday there were a lot of dishes. We started watching a movie and then I was so sorry that it was too late to tackle my dishes. But I came home from work yesterday to find that all of the dishes were done. He even cleaned the rest of the house for me. I love being married!

And Happy Birthday to my mom! I won't tell you how old she is!

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The Top 10 Best Things about Marriage

I have been married now for over two months (75 days to be exact). And I really love being married. It's not entirely different from being single but there are some amazing things

10. Someone in my bed. At first, I worried about sharing a bed him, anyone for that matter. But it's really nice to look over and see him (or hear him snore).

9. We love playing with our dogs. They are our children (hopefully are only children for a couple of years) and he shares my enthusiasm for dogs.

8. He eats my cooking and gives me compliments.

7. We learn from each other. As any marriage, you come from two different backgrounds and it can be fun to create a whole new tradition.

6. I have a man around to do projects around the house.

5. I actually get to see Joe everyday. As many of you know Joe and I had a long distance relationship and even engagement. We had two summers when I was home from school but otherwise our relationship was phone calls and instant messages.

4. He accepts my quirkiness and let's me be me.

3. We do the everyday things together like napping, and watching TV, and playing with our dogs.

2. Whenever I need to someone to hold me. he's always there.

1. We experience church, ministry, life together.

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Our Wedding

We have been married for 38 days (we are practically an old married couple)...so I thought I would post some of favorites of the day.

To see the rest of the pictures go here

Our wedding was beautiful and well worth the year we all spent planning it for our 400 guests. I think what I loved most about our wedding was the music. We had a violinist and a guitar/singer for the music and we played hymns for all of the processionals. If you had still haven't seen our wedding video, you need to!

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Wedding Video

Here is our wedding video for all to enjoy!

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A New Life

I decided that it was time to leave my old blog. It was nice during college but starting a new life I wanted a new blog. Joe and I are enjoying marriage and figuring how to blend two lives and perspectives together. We have been doing some decorating and painting of the house and getting me all moved in. I start my new job on Tuesday at Columbus Pediatrics as a RN. Because of the flooding at Columbus Regional, I was unable to start my job. But through a connection at church I now have a new job!

So this will be a place for stories and pictures and adventures for all.

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