About 365 days of marriage

I started this blog in April of 2011. At the time, Bret and I were wedding photographers and it was a way to share how marriage is more about the day to day and so much more than the wedding day itself. For about 5 years, I blogged about the joys and sorrows of the Christian walk, marriage, work, family and friends. I’ve blogged every day since a few weeks after I started. In May of 2015, we photographed our last wedding. Now, I have become passionate about simplicity, particularly in marriage, Christianity, business, travel and life. For a number of reasons, we have become minimalists. I’ve found that having simplicity makes life so much deeper, refreshing and joyful. I hope that this blog will help others see the benefits of living simply.

Day 2546 – Lazy Day

Posted on June 30, 2016 by 365 days of marriage

Our trips to visit Bret’s family typically include a lot of hanging out with family and friends. Some days though we have a chance to just sit back and relax. 🙂

Day 2545 – Game Fun With Family!

Posted on June 29, 2016 by 365 days of marriage

One of the things we love to do on our visits is play a ton of games with family and friends. A few days back, we had a hilarious game of Apples to Apples!

Day 2544 – Road Trip Part 5 – Yellowstone to Jenny Lake

Posted on June 28, 2016 by 365 days of marriage

Our last leg of the journey to California was through Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. I’m so glad we decided to take the slightly longer way to Yellowstone through Montana. Such a beautiful state! And sooooo friendly and trusting. The first gas station we visited let us PUMP FIRST and then pay! WHAT?! We’ve traveled through a LOT of states and we’ve NEVER experienced that.

We actually used maps this trip!

Yellowstone was such a great stop!

Then we stopped to see Old Faithful. I have the sunburn to prove the wait! Old Faithful kept giving us little teases like it was about to go off, but nope! It was really neat to see it!

Next we drove through the Grand Tetons. This was my favorite part of the trip. Such an amazingly beautiful place. Wow.

The place I was most looking forward to seeing was Jenny Lake. See, I was partially named after Jenny Lake. At first, my parents were going to just name me Jenny, but thanks to my mom and my grandmother, they decided I needed a more formal name. Thus, Jennilyn was created. Sadly, I was not the first, but I was at the beginning of a lot of them! I love my name. 🙂

And here I am crossing the Sierra’s, almost to Bret’s family in Cali. 🙂

Day 2543 – Road Trip Part 4 – Devil’s Tower To Montana

Posted on June 27, 2016 by 365 days of marriage

We stayed the night in Custer and it was a great break from the drive. So nice to sleep in a bed…even though we normally sleep on the floor. In the morning, we made our way into Wyoming.