This week we entertained our first guests, a young couple (also just married this summer) from our church, New Life Bible. They are both UT Arlington students, and each week they spend all day Tuesday and Thursday on campus. So we had them over for dinner on Thursday evening.

Since Amy won’t tell you this, I will: the food was fabulous. We forgot to take photos on Thursday, but we had leftovers for lunch today, and I snapped a photo of the corn, potatoes (thanks, Ruth Bixby, for the recipe) and the chicken wrapped in bacon (thanks, little sister-in-law for that recipe).

Good job, Amy. And thanks for the fine cooking!

For the past several months, we’ve been praying for UTA campus housing, but as Josh’s semester approached, the Lord did not see fit to make an on-campus apartment available to us. So we found another apartment 10 minutes away from campus and left for Texas on Tuesday, August 12th. Upon arriving in Arlington Wednesday night, we found out that we would not be able to move into our apartment until 4PM the next day. While we waited on Thursday, we were contacted by The University of Texas at Arlington and told that someone had canceled his housing reservation and that there was a campus apartment available for us to move into – not in 30 days – but that very same day!!!! We were amazed to see how the Lord worked every detail so perfectly and we continue to praise Him for our on-campus apartment.

This evening we played our first game of Monopoly as a married couple. We have a beautiful set received as a wedding gift from Rebekah Pringle. (Thanks!) The last time Amy and I played Monopoly was at Jon and Ashleigh Sutter’s house. One of us might have taken the game a little too seriously — at least that’s what the other thought.

So tonight we began around 9:30 and played till 11:45. I won’t bore you with the details. Suffice it to say, it’s a good thing that I’m in charge of the budget in real life, too. One of us ended up with almost all his or her properties mortgaged and $335 in debt to the bank. (He or she was married to the banker, who floated an extra loan — which started as theft but was graciously legitimized.)

If I weren’t being tickled right now, I’d write more. But I think it’s time to retire for the evening.

Dear Josh ~

Thank you so much for creating our very own blog!! I’m very excited about sharing our lives with all our friends and family! I a-d-o-r-e YOU!

~Your Amy

Dear Amy,

This blog is for you. As we agreed, I’ll try not to spend too much time on the little details…. But it is fun!

Happy 2nd-month anniversary! I love you!