Makes Me Smile Monday

Today, I’m smiling because I celebrated 6 years of marriage yesterday.  Ideally, I would upload a photo from our wedding day, but they’re on my external hard drive, and I’m feeling lazy tonight.  So, instead, you can go here to see what I wrote on our 4th anniversary, or here for our 3rd anniversary.

So, here’s to 6 wonderful, blessed years of marriage, and here’s to many, many more!

Happy Anniversary!

On Wednesday, March 25th, Marc and I celebrated 3 years of marriage. Yay! So, Happy Anniversary, Marc! I love you! We've had a busy week, and Marc's actually out of town for the weekend, so we celebrated our anniversary with dinner out on Tuesday.

We went to Rockfish Seafood Grill @ The Streets of Southpoint (thanks for the coupon, Tiffany!). We enjoyed a nice bottle of wine, great dinner, and the most scrumptious slice of Key Lime Pie. Yummy!

Rockfish Seafood Grill

Love of my Life...

Self Portrait

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Wednesday, we hosted our Life Group at our house. Dave Ramsey is just awesome. He makes things sound so simple! And I understand that the concepts are, indeed, simple, but he just says them in a way that everyone can comprehend! Love Financial Peace!

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So, on Thursday morning, I woke to a little discomfort on my right side of my mouth. Not a big deal, I figured it would go away. I swished with some Listerine and also some salt water throughout the day. No big deal, except that it kept getting more uncomfortable as the day progressed. I called to ensure I could see my awesome doctor before the weekend, and got an appointment for today at 12:00.

Well, when I woke up this morning, the 'slight' swelling that definitely increased to extremely swollen, and extremely uncomfortable. Still haven't felt any pain, but it's just been a bother. Well, the infection finally started draining around 10 a.m., so the swelling went down significantly. It was so swollen when I woke up this morning, that it was pulling the right side of my mouth down. Pretty bad, even for me. This picture is me right before I went in to see the doctor. If you look at the left side of my face at my jaw line, you can see the swelling. Normally, my face is symmetrical, so you can see that it's not exactly normal. Dr. V drained and flushed the incision, which is where the infection is, and placed a pack in, like he did on the other side. He is just so nice! He really feels bad that I'm having so much trouble! It's pretty typical for me, though, so I'm not too surprised! My face is closer to normal, now, but I'll spare you the photos!

I hope you've had a wonderful day! I'm off to bed to finish watching the Duke/Villanova game! =.)


"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God." ~ Philippians 1:9-11

Weekend guests

This weekend, we are going to be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Marc's grandparents (let's call 'em Ma and Pa J). We're going out to eat on Friday night with his dad's family - everyone we see at Christmas. It's about 20 people.

And Marc's dad and stepmom are staying with us this weekend. It should be fun! =.) We'll play spades, and maybe a few other card games, maybe we'll get Apples to Apples to play, too. On Sunday, Ma and Pa J's church is going to be honoring them with some sort of ceremony. I don't mind going, at all, nor does Marc, but we just really love Crosslink! I hope that doesn't make us church snobs! I also have a feeling that this will be a really traditional church, so that plays into a bit, as well. Anywho...should be a great weekend! We haven't seen Lyman and Melinda in a long time...maybe since Christmas?!? Too long!

Also, if you're in the area, and would love a contemporary church to stop in and check out, please take a look at Crosslink. Pastor Ken is awesome - you'll definitely walk away with something to think about and a challenge for the week. We're in the middle of a series on Vision, and God's Vision for our lives, for Crosslink, etc. Love it! =.)


And speaking of anniversaries...ours is coming up! March 25th marks 3 years of marriage for Marc and me! It's crazy how 3 years has gone by so quickly, yet seems like we've been together forever, all at the same time! I do have to say, though, that we've been dating since 2000, so maybe that has a part in the feeling like forever side of it! Have a wonderful day!


“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”- Galations 5:22-23