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for the wedding well wishes and support! We had quite the fiascos with housing and ceremony location in the days just before, but the short story is that God was (and is) amazing. (Our photographers and wedding officiant were also awesome.)

It was surreal standing on that beach going, “Five minutes, and I’ll be married — that’s crazy. The most serious commitment of my life, and all it takes is five minutes!” And Chris had to wait in the car getting nervous because none of the rest of us realized he didn’t have phone signal!

Chris and I are loving being married, and we’ve been so encouraged by everyone who celebrated with us and sent us congratulations — and ack, there are so many of you that we need to visit and really catch up with! Until then, I’m slowly but steadily writing notes to each of you, but thoughts of what I want to say run through my head a lot more often than I can write them to you.

We both came back to changes at our workplaces, plus a honeymoon’s worth of stuff to catch up on =) Chris has been sick a couple of times, and I had my fall chest cold. (My doctor’s going to check into asthma once I get rid of my cough completely, and both of us have ongoing health issues we’re trying to figure out and fix, if you think to pray about it.) Chris started his final college semester, and I’ve been working on my last entry for the Marshall Scholarship, as well as a Fulbright application. And we’ve had enough annoying little things happening for me to wonder who’s praying for our patience… and whether they’re friend or foe ; )

We’re looking forward to things settling down to a “daily grind” level! Until then, we’re trying to balance work and school and God and thank-yous and cleaning and to-dos and unpacking and time with each other — but we promise we haven’t forgotten you!

After all, you’re why we put a blog up: We hope it’ll help us keep in touch, especially since I’ve been burning through cell minutes with work and scholarships…

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