Bragging on my hubby...

So it's been awhile since I've blogged and thought it was time. Today I wanted to brag on my husband. I have shared frustrations in parenting and recent joys but I don't think I've shared much on what a wonderful husband I have. Brad, please take note I am writing this in what I think is Colts Blue.....just for you, baby!

I met Brad during my freshman year of college and then didn't see him again for another year. Although I thought he was very cute, I knew he had a girlfriend so I went on with life.....as the saying goes, "there were plenty of fish in the sea." I mean, come on! I had just left Shipshewana for Anderson University. I thought I was in a whole new country!!!! So a year later when we met, I stayed up talking to Brad about his current girlfriend and how he felt like he had already broken up with her in his heart, yadda, yadda, yadda, until 5a.m. I'll never forget calling home and telling my mom.......I think she thought I had committed the ultimate sin........PREMARITAL SEX! After assuring her that I wasn't into that and she didn't need to worry about it, I told her that there was something "different" about this guy that I didn't see in others. However, I had just decided that I was going to not worry about dating so much and just focus on my relationship with God, so you can imagine what kind of a loop this sent me into.

Soon after our long talk, he was breaking up with his girlfriend and we found ourselves spending more and more time together. I really liked this guy but was scared to death! By November of my sophomore year, we had decided to see each other exclusively. Since then, my life has been nothing but sunny skies. I always dreamed of being happily married but never thought I could actually have the prize. For the rest of our college careers, there was seldom times that we went more than 24 hours without seeing each other and if we went more than a day, you would have thought one of us traveled out of country for a long period of time. We enjoyed being with each other that much! It was like a sickness!

I think the one line that grabbed onto my heart and made me realize that this was the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with was this...we were talking one night about marriage and raising a family and he said, "When I'm married and have a baby, I'm gonna be fighting my wife to get up at night with the kids." Well, I'm here to tell you, I'm still waiting on that fight! But, on April 27, 2002, I married him and I have never looked back. Brad goes to work everyday to provide for his family and when he gets home at night, after a long day at the office and frustrations that sometimes come with the job, he joins me and we're a team in parenting the kids together. He never, ever has taken frustrations out on us. He jumps in and helps with both hands and never, I mean NEVER complains about it. Even in the midst of all my crying sometimes about the long day I've had with the kids, he brings such a calm spirit into our house and even though I don't always like to admit it, and sometimes I just want to remain angry about my tiring day, he takes all the stress away from me. He finds a way to make me laugh EVERY DAY and I can't tell you how much that means to me.

Brad, I just want to say thank you. You are my knight in shining armor and my prince charming all wrapped up into one! Thank you for making all of my dreams come true. I love living out our dreams together and can't wait to see what the future holds! I love you, "to the moon and back." Thanks for loving me in all the ways that you know how.