One day Josh found a frog on his university campus. He picked it up, checked it out, heard it ribbit, and watched it jump — but it wasn’t of much interest to him so he set it back down. Then one day he caught the same frog again, but this time he decided to kiss it…

Seven years later he still enjoys kissing me!

Our biggest change this year was moving to Cambodia. We changed continents, changed languages, changed . . . a lot. But we didn’t have to change spouses. So thankful that we get to be on this journey together.

Looking back over the last seven years of marriage I’m grateful for some simple decisions we made at the beginning. We chose to intentionally go to bed at the same time at night. (Of course there have been times one of us has had to stay up late to meet a deadline, but we typically always hit the sack at the same time.) We chose to read together. We’ve really enjoyed reading books together before bed. We now laugh over lots of literary allusions. We chose to live without a TV. We think our sleeping, reading, game playing, and time spent together have benefited from this. Thankful for those simple decisions and what they’ve added to our marriage.

Besides our anniversary this coming Sunday, last Sunday we celebrated Father’s Day. I remember during  conversation with Josh before we were dating, my heart dropped when he said he thought having two kids was a lot of work and that he didn’t know how people had more. This would have been a deal breaker for me. I was so glad when Josh went on to say that though he understood kids were a lot of work, he was open to having more than two children. I’m so thankful for the wonderful Daddy Josh is to our kids. We are blessed.

A big thank you to Miss Lauren for watching our kiddos so we could go on some dates. Our kids think she’s the best babysitter ever!