It was one year ago today, that I married my darling wife Katie. What a year it has been! Here are some of the most memorable parts: 

1. Seeing Katie in her white dress coming down the aisle!!! (SO Beautiful!!)
2. Our Wedding ceremony and reception. (Wow!! It was great! Thanks to the McClures and everyone who helped pull it off.)
3. Our honeymoon trip
4. Traveling for two months of partnership development
5. Our home air conditioning unit completely breaking down and needing replacement in late July. 
6. Moving all of her stuff in (musicians have a lot of stuff. – sheet music, instruments, cases for the instruments, instrument stands….)
7. Re-learning how to do a budget and use the Dave Ramsey “envelope system” together. 
8. Katie starting Nursing School (this is a highly competitive program at FSU!)
9. Me adjusting to a new phase of campus ministry
10. Katie adjusting to being the wife of a full time campus minister 
11. Getting the house transformed from a bachelor pad to a female-friendly environment
12. Our house being burglarized during Final’s Week and having our porch finger-printed
13. Me starting Seminary distance classes
14. Learning how to communicate
15. Learning how not to communicate
16. Meeting my sister’s fiance
17. Ice skating over Christmas in Erie
18. Seeing snow and my family over Christmas
19. Me ultimately getting Katie a dog after seeing her own “puppy dog eyes” pleading countless times
20. Walks and talks at Southwood lake
21. Katie playing a horrible practical joke on me for April Fool’s Day
22. Missing each other terribly during several conferences I went to while she stayed
23. Date nights
24. Old Mexico… (need I say more.?)
25. My car getting towed at FAMU (twice)
26. Katie’s good cooking! …(Thanks for your influence Christi and Giada!) 
27. Me having to start running/exercising again regularly (a result of Katie’s good cooking)
28. Turning thirty.
29. Kayaking down the Wakulla River and seeing manatees, fish, birds and an alligator!
30. Celebrating our one year anniversary this weekend. 

I thank God for giving me such a special woman to share life with. I am truly blessed among men. 

Mathew 6:33