Sicky

This is the first time I have truly spent all my time with Sam while he is sick. I was really worried at first that I wouldn't be a good nurse....but I think that in most cases it's all about being with the person you love when you're sick. I really enjoyed serving Sam and taking care of him. This has also been a really good opportunity to just spend time with one another, it seems we are always saying, "we need more time in the day so we can cuddle all day." This might be bad but I loved all the sick time because we just cuddled, laid around lazily, watched movies, ate soup (even though he HATES soup!), watch every sunset, walked on the beach (very slowly), and did I already say cuddle? Oh yes, but it's my favorite part. Even though this is such a small thing it is a new thing to us and I now know that I love taking care of him and loving him.

snow bunny

It's been a while since we last updated this thing and I dare say we have a lot of stuff going on. I will most likely not blog about most of these things just because I don't tend to try and go over everything and I also tend to over do it when I do try. 

We have been having so much fun lately (even with the lousy weather) This weekend me, Sam, and the whole Nowlin crew went up to kirkwood for a ski trip. It was brutal! Well at least for me... See I'm not what you would call a good snowboarder but I try to be and I am learning. I pretty much fell, a lot, and also learned a lot. Sam is so good to me he is the most patient and encouraging man. He would wait for me during all the runs and give me really good instruction, and even when I sucked he told me I did really good. I had so much fun with him! This was our first official snow trip as a married couple and we fully enjoyed it.

 Another thing that was really interesting was doing this all with Sam's family. They were really encouraging as well and would yell things to me while they were on the ski lift (yes they are really FAST and I would be half way down the slope and they would already be on their way back up haha) I loved it and can't wait until we do it again next month!

Family.

Love is a very tender thing, when you have you feel like you are on top of the world and when you don't you can feel worthless. I have had some people in my life the past year or so that have shown me how important it is to have love and show love. They have shown me how someone can become very cold because they do not feel like any one loves them. They have also shown me how to give love with "no strings attached."

God's love is so amazing I am so very very loved and I know it. Not only by Sam but by my friends and family. Sometimes I need some unloved people to remind me how lucky I am.

Joshua Wilderness

So we had some wonderful friends from our Joshua class come over last night for dinner. It's always good to see people you love and just catch up and be silly. One thing I think we all (in one way or another) realized was that we are harboring some bitterness towards our Joshua class, directors, teachers, and Hume lake. It was a sad moment for me because I didn't know these things about myself, or at least didn't want to know these things. I'm a bit angry and annoyed with somethings that I remember going down. Well I was last night because as I talked them through with my fellow Joshua's I realized how stupid I was for holding on to something so peaty. God changed me for the good in that place and my worldly perspective changed me in the bad. A place is not going to be perfect because it's in this world, this world of sin and sickness. Even if it is Hume Lake one of the most beautiful places I know of. I'm ashamed of my bitterness and I'm sad that I have been carrying it around with me for so long. Thank goodness for Hilary, Jacqui, and Sam because they really know how to knock sense into me. I loved every moment I got to spend with them and I love God for working through people and in my life.

-M

Delta

Our good friends Matt LaMarche, Joe Ruppert, and Ryan Nickel (and probably a few more) have been tell Sam over and over and over that he looks like the lead singer from Delta Spirit. Even friends we haven't talked to for years have sent him links of his picture to show Sam he looks like him. So, it just so happens that they were going to be playing at the Fillmore in San Francisco the beginning of December. Our friend Matt says "I will buy your tickets if you will go and watch them" and we took him up on his offer. We set off to go and see "Sam's twin" with a big crew of people in tow.

Basically they were amazing!

Sam doesn't look like Matt Vasquez and I should know I look at him everyday. He also definitely didn't because he shaved is head the night before!

Honestly I only took one picture and it's not very good. They was a woman dancing in front of me that was AMAZING! There was also a woman that was angry at me for trying to take photos so basically there were just WAY too many distractions.

Heres a video you can judge if Sam looks like him or not : )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPDcYcjbxFE