Eight Years Ago....

I married the woman that I couldn't have even dreamed of. I was thinking tonight as we were out about how I fell in love with Kendra, watching her on stage in Guys and Dolls, knowing that the star of the show had the hots for me. Watching her sing in a swing band, sing to me, in a bar full of guys wanting her hand. She would sing Fever right to me, like she did on the way home tonight. Today I took her out on the town. First we went to Ulta to get her the new fangled hair iron that she has had her eye on. Then we drove down town and parked, she was asking me the whole time what we are doing and where we are going, to be honest I had only one plan for the night and that was dinner later, but I was going off the cuff during the day. So we walked around the up and coming area of downtown Phoenix and checked out the old buildings, new condos, and little nuggets that we will take in another day. One of the most recent, and much needed, additions to town is the lite rail train that runs from north Phoenix to west Mesa. We hopped on the train and headed to Tempe to walk around the college district of Mill Ave, had a coffee at a local shop, walked around and window shopped, then hopped back on and headed back into town, literally ridding into the sunset. After arriving back in town we headed to the only place I had planned to go, La Piccola Cucina, a small mom-and-pop eatery in Phoenix. It had won "best of" Phoenix last year and Kendra and I are always up to going to the local spots over the chain. It was an old house turned restaurant, run solely by mom and pop, and daughter. It was us and two other couples, enjoying the food and vocal styllings of pop. After being wished well by the two other couples, married 42 and 21 years respectfully, we drove home wondering what this next year will bring. More family time, more friend time, a lot more ministry time with our leadership at LCC, but what we are most excited about is the prospect of bringing a child home soon into our 9th year of marriage. We have had tough times, we have been blessed, but we know that we know that we have each other. That we love, and have love. Thank you everyone who has loved us for 31 and 28 years, thank you to those who have loved us for 4. We couldn't have done it without all of you, we couldn't have done it without the Lord. Also I want to thank those of you that have helped recently with our adoption fund, to find those cards in the mail has really blown us away. Know that everything we get goes in a special box and will be dealt out as the charges come in. You are amazing, thank you. Babe I love you, you amaze me. My beautiful, my star, my song. I am blessed, blessed indeed.