5 months of happily ever after

5 months ago, Superman and I started the most incredible, happy adventure of our lives. We're well into the fall semester here at The Master's College, and learning so much! Mostly we are so grateful - eternally so - that our hunger for God and His word has been growing in leaps and bounds. How incredible, to sit and read His word together, to discuss theology, missions, the Gospel, and, lately, the reformation. Fascinating stuff!

I am so thankful for my husband. Reading books with him, sitting and talking with him, walking along holding his hand - such precious, precious gifts from God.

Five months - can you imagine what's next?! :o)

10 Things I Love About You

The past couple of days, Gabe's given me clues to find a list of 10 things he loves about me, 'hidden' somewhere in our home. Using some pretty creative hangman puzzles on our whiteboard in the kitchen, he directed me (with clues; I didn't get it right off the bat) to his day planner. In the back, he'd written a list of ten things he loves about me.

I have the best husband in the world! He's working hard, being a full-time student and working several jobs as well. What an incredible gift the Lord has given me!

I've been working on jobs for us for next summer, fall, and winter. We have ideas where we'd hope to work, and so far it looks good - too early yet to tell, though.

Pray for wisdom, strength, and that our focus be ever and always on our awesome mighty God!

He alone is worthy - we are so blessed to be His!

4 months of bliss....

Last night, Gabe took me out to an expensive dinner. We actually realized as we were at the restaurant that we've never been to a real, nice, expensive restaurant together before! That's actually just one of the amazing blessings about our relationship - we like burgers & fries better than just about anything else in the world, so $10 will get us a great, happy date and we'll both be totally satisfied with that!

But sometimes (y'know, perhaps once a year or so) it's really awesome to go out to a 'real' dinner. I had steak, he had shrimp 'n ribs. Yeah - it was amazing.

The best part is, we never would have done that (I was thinking walking to the donut shop for breakfast would be a great way to celebrate our 4-month anniversary), but for the amazing blessing of my grandparents sending us some money with a note that said 'do something fun with this'. Gabe took it, and did indeed do something fun - he surprised me by taking me out to dinner!

Praise God for His blessings. Gabe's been in school for 2 weeks now, and we are incredibly blessed by the fact that we truly enjoy being together while he does homework and I work (on Russian, writing, reading to him, or doing 'wife things' - cleaning the house, making food, etc).

As we look back on 4 months of marriage (well, as of Wednesday - we celebrated on the weekend 'cause it's the free time we had :o) ), Gabe and I are so amazed at how much closer we've grown, even since 2 months ago!

Wow. God is great! All glory to Him!

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!