Brian and Libby's Blog

Good times

Back to the daily grind. Brian and I were saying this morning that we feel like we got a false sense of a "break." I use the term loosely because although we were not in our daily routine, and although we thoroughly enjoyed the last couple of weeks, they weren't as restful as we'd have liked. We fully acknowledge that this is our own doing...hey, we love a party.

Anyways, we had an incredible Christmas with my family in Syracuse, an exciting weekend before New Years (Brian spoke and he did PHENOMENAL...check out the message, it should be up later today in the northwaychurch.tv media center), an incredible New Years Eve with new and old friends, and a fireplace, football, junk food and friend-filled New Years Day. I can't count how many times we said something to eachother to the effect of "this is a good day" or "we have a lot of great friends" or "we have it good" over the past couple of weeks. Nothing and no one is perfect but we can acknowledge that we have it pretty good, and we will try to remember that as frequently as possible.

One of the highlights of the weekend was celebrating Jeremy and Shelley's engagement. Yay! What exciting news. Talking to them and thinking about what these next months will bring really brought Brian and I back. We were all sitting around...a bunch of "marrieds"...and I made an off-handed comment; something to the effect of "oh, to be engaged again, now we're just married." I thought better of it later, and told Brian that although our engagement and wedding were fabulous, I wouldn't trade what we have now for anything. I can't believe we've been married for three and a half years already, or how much better things are every single day. I can't imagine what it's like to be married for 30 years if you keep falling a little more in love every day. My mom sort of summed this up in a message she record for us on our wedding video. Believe it or not, she said she hoped that our wedding would turn out to be the low point of our marriage, because every day would be better than the one before. She was right. It was incredible, but looking back, I guess you could say it has turned out to be the "low point."

So Jer and Shel, we are sooooo happy for you guys and the next few months will be amazing. But we wish you the same...that every day will be the best one yet, and that when you look back in 5, 10 or 30 years, these wonderful times of wedding bliss will pale in comparison. :)

posted by Libby @ 8:30 AM