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It's so easy to get caught up in the day to day events of life that we sometimes loose focus of just spending time quietly together as a couple. Of course, we have some quiet evenings around the house, but there are still always things asking to be done. Dishes after dinner, picking up, laundry that just came out of the dryer, or even the temptation to just veg in front of a movie, etc...

This past week, Kyle worked a number of late nights at work and was exhausted. I decided to text him during his last long day and ask him what he desired to do that night, giving a few ideas that came to mind. I was thrilled when he picked the option of going to the Ohio waterfront for a picnic dinner. I was so excited and spent the afternoon making pasta salad, cutting a fresh watermelon, making homemade cookies, etc... to take on our picnic. We found some swings that overlooked the water and bridges and just enjoyed sitting, swinging, eating, and chatting. It was a perfect date night and way to relax!

This past week, on March 13th, we celebrated our 9 month wedding anniversary! The Lord has blessed us immensely during our marriage and we are so grateful to Him for His work in our lives!

We celebrated the day with a wonderful date night on Saturday. We went to Applebees for dinner then went to see Alice in Wonderland in 3D at a nearby movie theater. We had so much just enjoying each other's company. We are truly best friends and love doing life together!

This weekend Kyle and I had a great time together on our date night Friday and with friends! On Friday night, July 3rd, we had our own little 4th celebration by using a gift card and going to Red Lobster for dinner, then we went to the Waterfront for a country concert and fireworks show. It was great!
Kyle's yummy shrimp with a peach bar-b-que sauce on it and scallions wrapped in bacon with a baked potato.

My AMAZING shrimp with crab butter sauce over rice with a loaded baked potato!!! Oh, just seeing these pictures makes me want more shrimp!!!

Down at the Waterfront, as we were walking to the concert site, the ship that carries all the fireworks was passing by us. Isn't that neat? All the fireworks were set off from this ship...
The concert stage... Jo Nichols was playing when we got there.
Squinting from the flash since it was so dark outside... haha...
Fireworks!!!

Tonight Kyle and I attended a concert at Southern by Keith & Kristyn Getty. If you are not familiar with them, they wrote the much loved song, In Christ Alone, that many churches now sing. The concert was so wonderful! As I mentioned to Kyle afterward, the neat thing about going to a concert like theirs is that it's like your just worshiping together. It's a night of singing and worshiping together, one voice, one passion, one Savior and Lord! Our eyes were turned towards our Savior as we sung about his death, his compassion, his grace, etc...

They have some new songs coming out on an album in a few months that we got to hear tonight and they were wonderful! The most recent song they wrote was on Christ's compassion towards us. When they sang it tonight it was such a genuine song, full of praise towards our Savior. I can't wait for it to come out on CD!

I'll post a few videos so that you can be introduced to their beautiful music.

Here is also a link for an interview video with Keith and Kristyn if you're interested.

On Friday I captured Kyle for the afternoon and evening to take him somewhere special for his birthday. We drove about an hour away to Madison, Indiana where we enjoyed the little historic town and scenic park. We spent the evening walking up and down Main Street, checking out the Fudge shops, coffee shops, music stores, etc... It was so relaxing to just get out of town and enjoy a simple, laid back atmosphere!!!

Here are a few pictures from our time together:

Hey all!

Of course, we had to take pictures on the train track...



Mr. Kyle... :-)


One of the highlights of our evening was finding this tree. As we were walking down Main street, looking in the shop windows, there was this tree that had been warmly dressed for the winter outside a shop that sells crocheted and knit items. We both laughed so hard when we saw it!!!


Hahaha... we quickly fell in love with the tree... ;-)



haha... notice the full trash can... totally makes the picture... eh? haha...


once again...