Labor Day 07': Sawtooth Glory

I think these pictures speak for themselves...

One Year in the Blink of an Eye

Everyone agrees that their first year of college flies by, and by the time they've graduated agree that college itself passes in the blink of an eye, but the first year of marriage flies by while allowing you to still slow down and savor the gift that God has given you in your wife. Kim and I have had quite the year between me finishing my senior year at Whitworth and her working in an architecture firm downtown Spokane, to moving to Moscow where she is now finishing her education and i'm now working full time at a property management/real estate company. Life is a roller coaster after college is over and being married helps give some glue and stability to the chaos that the "real world" throws at you.

It's easy to become complacent in loving your wife. While you date someone there is a constant desire to impress upon the other person your worth as a possible husband or wife in the future. How easy it is to slip away from holding yourself to the same standard once your married and can "relax" around the other person. That's why they say marriage is a commitment, it's something that must be intentionally focused on, it will not simply work itself out the same way that dating did. We owe it to our spouses to be intentional in the way we love them and make them feel special, the same way we did when we were dating and longed to live and romance them for the rest of our lives!

Here are some pictures from our first anniversary to Vancouver, British Columbia. We stayed in some gorgeous hotels for dirt cheap because we had some hotel points through Starwood preferred guest. We looked at Regent College, a non-denominational seminary on the University of British Columbia campus. Vancouver is a beautiful city that commands green hills and blue ocean water all around it. God has blessed the earth with it's presence.