He still brings me flowers :)

Josh brought me my favorite flowers the other day. I really needed that because I wasn't feeling that great and it was a total day brightener. Plus, he still remembers that the blue lily are my favorite (they actually are purple, but the name is blue). Sometimes in marriage, you can forget about doing stuff like this. We always spoil it with practicalities. For instance, my first instinct was to ask how much they cost and wonder where in our budget the money came from, but you know what? I didn't ask. I smelled them instead and forgot all about the price. I always think in my head too, that flowers are so silly because they just die. But you know what else? I sat those flowers on my table and every time I walked into the living room/dining room, part of me felt refreshed by their beauty. Guys--us women may say that we don't want stuff like this, but we are only trying to be practical, we really do want our men to treat us as "fine china" (as Nat puts it). I didn't need the flowers, I didn't even really want flowers. But seeing them, made me feel more beautiful and made me think that my husband must think I'm beautiful. And thoughts like that are hard to come by. So yeah, I would say it's worth it. You may end up with less in your wallet, and dead flowers in your trash can in about a week. But what was created in her and between him and her is priceless!!

What a weekend!

The first weekend of November, Josh, Asher and I went to a couples conference in Estes Park. So much happened, I just had to blog about it. First, we show up and walk into the back of the ballroom and ask the usher guy if we could sit near the back insinuating our little one, and he says that they will not allow Asher in the ballroom. Oh great! He says we can sit on one of the chairs or couches outside the ballroom and listen. Well, we lucked out b/c we found a couch right in front of one of the open doors where you could hear and see the speaker. We got lots of attention from people during the breaks, complimenting us on our comfortable seat choice, but also we were making them all miss their children by having Asher there. The next morning we show up to find all the chairs and couches outside the ballroom are filled with people. Hmmm, they like our idea, only they didn't know we were forced to sit outside. Oh well. It was a great weekend, very rewarding. Asher was the best baby ever. And the thing I love best about Estes Park is the ELK!!!! They are everywhere. They were in the park just lounging, I found three bucks sitting in someone's front lawn, they were grazing around the men on the golfcourse. I couldn't believe how close I was able to get. Josh thought I was nuts getting that close, but I had to take the opportunity.

And to top the weekend off, we took a couple drives through Rocky Mountain National Park, it was beautiful. I decided that I love the mountains in the winter. I had really only experienced them in the summer or for ski trips. But there is something so majestic, so spectacular about the snow caps, hiding in the back. Something about them makes me feel special when I see them, it's as if God made them for that reason and much more. The beauty of them draws me closer to HIM!

When we got home on Sunday from the conference, Josh wasn't feeling well. It was our turn to teach the children for church. So we are in the middle of the story of the good samaritan when Josh turns around and throws up all over the Kautz's basement. The kids didn't realize what was going on, I think they thought it was part of the story at first. We ended up leaving early that night but it has provided for a lot of laughs since. We found out it was food poisoning. Estes Park health authority called us a few days later because they were doing an investigation on a food borne illness at one the restaurants we ate at. Pretty crazy, huh?