July 12th

I have been married 5 years now. oddly, I feel like my wedding was yesterday, yet I can't even remember my life before Liela let alone life without Mike. Mike is my very best friend. I love that I knew Mike when I was younger. (I always thought that I wanted to marry someone I knew b/c I didn't want to find someone at college and then find out their family was crazy or have to move to Oregon or something) He can remember the first time he wanted to date me. That's pretty sweet. He used to call me before we dated and just check up on me. People used to ask me about him like we had a secret friendship. "why does that guy call you, does he like you?" "what is sherf calling here for....you know sherf is out!?" "does he write you a lot of letters?" "how do you guys know each other so well that he would call you?" (Mike is 3 years ahead of me in school so it was an unlikely friendship) At the time I thought, 'man, we're just friends. He's just nice and wants to see how I'm doing.' Now I look back and thank God for letting me have such a cool friendship with my husband before I knew he would be. I can't believe in 5 short years of marriage we are where we are with the two sweeties we are here with. I can't imagine anything better than my husband. Which is what the Bible says about heaven. The mind can't even imagine how sweet it will be. So for now I will take this picture that God gives us of Christ and the church and I will cherish every minute I am allowed to live with my Mikey.