Why I love the women in my life.

Lisabeth :)

Searching.

I think that God sometimes gives us a situation, not just to deal with the situation, but to have the chance to dive into his word with a more feverish effort.

Not having anything to do with what I was searching for I stumbled upon

Romans 11:33, "Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements and how inscrutable his ways!"

Now I just can't get past that verse.

Also, it may be cliche and all, but I want Isaiah 52:7 tattooed on my foot. I just can't help it.

Farmer's Market.

I went to my first Farmer's Market in Studio City today.

I loved everything about the atmosphere of it.

There were pony rides for kids and so many different vendors.

There is a mexican farmer's market in downtown LA some people at work were telling me about.

I am so excited for a time I can check it out.

I met an awesomely unique and sweet woman named Linda.

I am not into jewelry much, but singing her handcrafted jewelry I was kind of lured in.

I absolutely fell in love with two of her necklaces.

They are so unique, so detailed and just hold so much character.

Sadly I don't have $90 and $110 to drop on a necklace, and if I did, I probably still couldn't have brought myself to.

But she was so awesome and we talked forever and I would be her friend in real life.

She has such a fun story and it was so endearing listening to her talk.

I bought 2 lemons and some scrumptious strawberries.

I don't need lemons for anything.

But the man who was running the stand was older and just looked like such a hardworking man and I wanted him to know I appreciate his work and that he should keep going. So we smiled and I bought a lemon. His oranges were also so super yummy tasting, but I didn't bring money to do real life grocery shopping. I just wanted to look around and get a feel for life.

I wanted to buy my meat from another awesome old working man.

I looked through his binder about his grass-fed cows and listened to him talk about the different types of meat he has and how he makes it and what not. He just seemed so passionate about something seemingly so simple. The lady next to me was telling me this was the best meat she has ever had. That the meat is so good for you and you don't need to eat a lot to fill up so it lasts and on and on she went. I would love to make Sundays my day to go to the market and cook all of my meals for the week. But that just won't happen no matter how ideal it may sound. I will get a rhythm soon enough. I just have to decide what is worth spending more on and what is worth just going without.

Food Inc.

Jon and I just watched this documentary about where our food is coming from.

It is atrocious.

Jon never wants to eat again.

And I am determined to make a major lifestyle change to keep my husband and I healthy and energized for life.

I am going to my first farmers market tomorrow and I am so very excited.

Making this change is going to cost us money that we don't have.

So I am determined to find a way to make this happen.

I need all of the suggestions I can get.

:-)

Challenges.

I have officially decided that being married, starting a new life practically and keeping in touch with the people that I love so dearly and have been so supportive from the 20 years of my life is extremely challenging.

I haven't figured out yet how to do it right and that is starting to bother me. I feel like there is not enough time in the day to spend with God, hang out with the greatest husband ever, keep the apartment clean and the husband fed, talk to two sets of parents, however many siblings I have now, and all of the friends that are so precious in my heart. But while doing all of that I have to spend 9 hours out of my day at work. And I am also supposed to start getting involved in church and making my own friends here...

Proverbs 31:12 "She does him [her husband] good, and not harm, all the days of her life."

Jon and I were listening to a sermon series before we got married. In one of the sermons the pastor shares a study that found it takes a married couple typically seven years before they're first response to their spouse is selfless rather than selfish. You don't realize how selfish you are until you are married. But the amazing blessing in that as well is that you don't realize how forgiving you can be either.

Jonathon has all of these newfound crazy amazing opportunities. It is so fun coming before the Lord together and just waiting for his voice and guidance.

Work is going swell. I realized today that I don't talk as much as I really talk in real life. That really bothered me. But I don't know what to do different about it. I have just found a new passion for listening, truly listening to people. I have just fallen in love with listening to different people talk... that I forget to join in. Anyone who knows me, knows this is very strange.

Some things I hated doing before that I thought would change once I got married:

Folding laundry- still hate

Doing dishes- only sometimes hate

Going to the bank- still hate

Vacuuming- still hate

Cooking- absolutely love

Pumping gas- still hate

Separating socks- still hate

We got our wedding pictures yesterday. Sooo many. They are so amazing and I am so excited to show them off.

Problem with the pictures?

The week of my wedding... I lost weight I guess.

Now typically this would be an amazing blessing.

But in my dress... you can see I lost weight.

And that makes some pictures very unflattering of me. And I thought that when you were a bride everything was flattering because you were just flawless all of the time... that's only in movies. I also thought that when you lost weight everything looked more flattering... also a myth. If I can just train myself to get over that... Ill be fine. I am also sure that if I didn't post that information for the world to see... no one would have noticed.

While looking through the pictures Jonathon told me that for the pictures he understood why I had to have as much make up as I did on, and he didn't notice then, but that he liked me better the way I looked last night... with only day old mascara on... he would.

There are dishes in the sink right now and it is majorly bothering me. But Jonathon is learning songs for this new potential gig he has... and with the water running he would have to turn the music up too loud to hear since he is near deaf and then we'd get another noise complaint and that would just be a problem. So here I sit, not doing dishes, and putting off some other necessary things I have to do because I can't stop thinking about the dishes.

I miss blogging my heart out :)

Proverbs 31.

I like Proverbs 31.

It reminds me of all the ways I need to grow :)

Easter.

It's weird not spending this Easter in Lansing.

No egg cracking contest.

It's all just so strange.

Jon's playing the youth services today at church.

So I have been having a very productive morning.

It feels good.

I am still not sure what our first Easter together is going to look like.

I want to cook a real yummy dinner but who knows what else.

Everything I think of costs more money than we have.

I have been falling in love with Jesus in a whole new way since I've been married.

Marriage just keeps getting better and better.