I love being married to Nick! He's pretty awesome. And I love his family too... I couldn't have asked to be married into a better family. His mom took the kids on Saturday (ALL DAY!) so we could go to a marriage conference at our church. It was so nice. As an anniversary gift I got Nick an ice cream maker and he got me some speakers for his Ipod. :) (They actually WERE for me... I wanted to be able to listen to his Ipod when I am downstairs...) And just for the record, I DO NOT have the 7-year itch... nothing could be farther from the truth. It's not a lie when I tell you that I love being married to Nick exponentially more today than the day we married. I couldn't be happier or more excited to be his wife. He's so kind, loving, generous, compassionate, humble, giving, and supportive... and he's FUN... and cute... and adventurous. I am much closer in my walk with Christ because of my husband... He'll always me my only one!Next topic-- the Daniel Fast... We are BOTH so over it. Meaning, we can't wait until Thursday. It's getting very, very hard. I have seriously considered quitting early SEVERAL times today, (and yesterday and the day before and the day before that.) For some reason last Thursday was when the rubber really started to hit the road and it started to get REALLY difficult. So, we just went to Whole Foods to stock up on some delicious whole foods and are trusting that while we want to quit, God has a plan for us during this time. It was especially hard today when it was our anniversary... (In full disclosure I DID go out with some girls LATE on Friday night and we ate "non DF" foods-- still no meat, but I don't think Southwest eggrolls at Chili's are part of the plan... or Yuengling :) ... but anyway... As I learned this weekend at the marriage conference, "We all stumble in many ways..."
So funny story-- Nico is quite the mimic. He mimics Nia all the time, he mimics Nick and I (especially if we are yelling... he gets the intonation just right!) and then the other day he started mimicking our dog Strom. He likes to lick his hands like Strom licks his paws-- and he actually does it quite often. Well Nico was apparently mimicking Strom the other day and I came into the room and this is what Nick had done to him...
Yup, that's the dog harness on him. The funny thing was that it was actually too loose for Nico. Then a few seconds later he crawled over and picked up Nick's shoe in his mouth-- which actually puzzles me because Nico has never seen Strom do that... he hasn't done it since he was a tiny puppy over 6 years ago...
Alrighty, gotta go to bed... oh, and BTW-- Nico did have strep. I stinkin' LOVE the minute clinic!
