A wonderful day

Yesterday, Superman and I had a pretty amazing day together. We've been getting up earlier (practicing for the school year) and swimming most days right before or after breakfast. It's an awesome way to start your day - especially when you're an Oregonian living in Southern California! Ahem. Excuse me. My husband is still working on teaching me - it's 'So Cal'. And never 'Cali'. Anyways, yes. Back to yesterday. So, to start our day of interestingly, we found a lizard in the pool! It was a little tiny lizard - pretty cute, really. we thought he might be dead (Y'know, when they don't breathe and lay there all limp in your hands, it's kind of a hint...). Our lizard, however, turned out to only have been 'mostly dead'. A bit of rubbing (expertise thanks to watching 101 dalmations as a kid) and the little guy started breathing again. He was pretty scared, so we brought him inside and put him in a box. And...woohoo! A pet!! Our keeping of this pet was pretty short-lived, though, 'cause about an hour later he came to his senses and decided the indoors was no place for him. We let him go, and he happily scurried off to...well, we're not sure where. Somewhere.

So yes - it was fun! Our day was great - rather productive, and then in the evening, we went for a walk around TMC's campus. It was a warm evening (aren't they all...), and the sprinklers were going, so....that's right. We grown-up married people ran thru the sprinklers. THAT was awesome. Then we came home and had root-beer floats (with soy ice-cream, of course).

It was an awesome day - this week has been an awesome week. God's grace knows no bounds, and marriage is truly one of the greatest earthly gifts ever given. 3 months - and we love life with all our hearts. God is so awesome!

My husband is my hero. At one point during our engagement, I called him Superman, and it stuck. He is most definitely my Superman. It's not because of the things he does for me - although they are most definitely endearing and precious. And he's really good at doing them. It's because he captured my heart, and made me feel like a princess. His princess. And he does it every day. We are so excited to be each other's best friend for the rest of our lives, and we're committed to fighting for that. It's awesome, to have a precious, wise, caring man as my best friend - my husband, my hero.

I have now been married to my best friend for 85 days. Somehow, it seems impossible 85 days have gone by - and somehow, it seems impossible that it's only been 85 days. 85 days ago, we had a beautiful, blessed wedding, and every day since then, I have understood more and more how wonderful it is to be married.

We've been learning a lot this summer - mostly about patience. Not with each other - although we've been learning that a bit too (by God's grace, we've both adjusted to married life quite happily and shockingly easily). Patience regarding the wonderful world of job searching. It's been an awesome summer of being able to spend lots of time together and do fun things, creative things, and lots of free things (parks are good. Very good.), and it's been awesome that Gabe is an umpire, and therefore we spent a good deal of our summer at baseball games (he, working, and I, listening to people critique his work from the stands), so that's an incredible blessing.

God is so awesome - He provides exactly what we need. We've just realized this summer that He's teaching us to trust Him, and that's a humbling thing to realize - even if it is tough, it's oh, so good.

Life is incredible - not because it's easy, but because God is good, and He has blessed me with the most wonderful husband in the world. I am married to Superman - to me, he's the hero I always dreamed of, and so much more!