Day 1949 – Happy Veterans Day!!

Posted on November 11, 2014 by 365 days of marriage

I hugged a vet today, did you???

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Day 1948 – Happy 239th Birthday USMC!!!!!

Posted on November 10, 2014 by 365 days of marriage

What better way to celebrate the Corps 239th birthday than to share a picture of us at the USMC Ball last year!!! I love my Marine!!! 🙂

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Day 1944 – Setting Marriage Goals And Keeping Them

Posted on November 6, 2014 by 365 days of marriage

We’ve been attempting to do daily devotions together since September 26th. I’m happy to say we’ve only missed 6 days….but! We were attempting to do morning and evening devotions. We found after about a month, we just weren’t getting much out of one of the devotionals (a morning and evening one), so we stopped reading that. So in THAT case, we’ve done some form of devotions every day. So the secret to keeping this?

First, we made it a routine. Second, for the OCD Jennilyn, I printed off a checkoff list. Not in a legalistic way, but just to see how far we’ve come.

I’m so thankful that this is part of our day now. I can see major changes in each of us as we grow closer to each other through growing closer to God.

What do you and your spouse do for devotions?

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Day 1943 – Bret Got Husband Points Today

Posted on November 5, 2014 by 365 days of marriage

One of the “secrets” of a marriage is to continually date and woo your spouse. Our alarm goes off at 5:45 every day. Most days, Bret will go through one snooze cycle. Some mornings I’ll go through 2-3. More often than not, Bret has been bringing me a cup of coffee for when I do get up. He tries to fake me out every morning….especially when I ask about coffee….it’ll take me a minute or two to realize I have a hot mug next to me.

This morning, I got up before he came back down. I walked into him writing me a post it note to go with my cup of coffee. 🙂 This guy is the coolest.

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Day 1940 – The Days Things Don’t Go As Planned And Then They Do

Posted on November 2, 2014 by 365 days of marriage

Well, we got up with plenty of time to go to church. No Daylight Savings Time got in our way! But for a number of reasons, we decided to stay home. We listened to a sermon online and just hung out. About half way through, we got a message that a family member was in distress. So we finished the sermon in the car and took care of it. We were planning on getting lunch with another family member, but since we were half way to where we were going to have lunch, it made sense to cancel. But we decided to go without them.

I mean, why NOT go to Broom’s Bloom when you get the chance?

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