I picked up a second job! Some people have been confused by this so let me explain a little bit. Technically, I work part-time at the church. There are a lot of weeks when it is a full time job, but I am officially only part-time. I got a call from some friends who explained to me that their mom was looking to hire somebody at her shop for only a couple afternoons a week. It seemed like a great fit because she needed somebody who didn't need a lot of work and it allowed for me to do something like I felt like God has been calling me to do - which is get out in my community more. So, on some afternoons, you can find me downtown here.
Then, Kris and I celebrated three years of marriage!
Okay, so I just have to talk about this for a minute. I threw this picture up on Facebook because we take a picture every year on our anniversary. (A family friend made us this really cool scrapbook for our wedding that has a space for an anniversary picture every year for 25 years.) This picture got over 100 likes. That blew me away. It was strange and cool to see that over 100 people care about us in some way. I told Kris, I don't even know if I could name 100 people off the top of my head. So thank you, dear friends, for liking my picture. It really blessed me.
Three years. Wow. What a ride. What a journey. What an adventure. What a... I'll stop. I didn't do an anniversary post, but I will say this. Dearest Kris, you are truly the love of my life and I will admire you and honor you until the day I die. And then maybe I'll come back and haunt you every now and then.
We celebrated by taking off to Sacramento for the night.
We stayed in an awesome hotel with what Kris referred to as "character." There are two types of character people in this world. People who say character and mean dumpy and people who say character and mean absolutely charming. Thank goodness Kris falls into the second category and booked us a rockin hotel with character and charm. We fondued at the Melting Pot and watched cable TV. It is really the little things in life. And no, we don't have cable at home. We probably never will again and our children will hate us.
After Sacramento we came home, you know, to go to church and then headed out for Lake Tahoe. Every year, in September, we head to Lake Tahoe for a Pastor/Spouse retreat with all the other pastors in our conference. It was a fabulous time and I truly had so much fun getting to talk with and hang out with all the other pastors and spouses. There is a kindred spirit among us and it is such a blessing to get to serve alongside of these people. Plus, we got to go on a boat ride. Wooo!
Lastly, I am sure many of you are wondering how our dear cats are. Let me just tell you, they are doing fine. No? You didn't really care? Oh. I just wanted to show off another picture of them. :D
I hope you all are having an awesome week! I'll leave you with this funny FB post my friend sent me after Marriage Monday. It made me lol.
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