Josh and I have been sharing life as Mr. and Mrs. for a whole year. It's amazing to stop and realize how quickly time flies. Our first year has been a busy one, filled with joy, but also many adjustments and tears.
Just after our wedding in Alva, Oklahoma on May 23 of last year, we drove to Northern Idaho to spend the summer interning at a church plant Josh's dad started a few years ago. Yep- we're ministry folk, who realize our God is bigger and more awesome the further we delve into serving. Josh graduated just a few weeks before our wedding with a Pastoral Ministry degree from Oklahoma Wesleyan University where we met and fell in love.
When the summer ended, we packed the few things we owned as a couple, and drove back to Oklahoma so I could finish my last semester of college, which was spent in a 9th grade English classroom student teaching. Teaching is my passion, and students are a joy.
At the end of the semester, after my graduation, we packed up our things again, and moved back to Idaho, where Josh has stepped in as Pastor for Eternal Hope Wesleyan Church. We've bought a house, a miniature Schnauzer named Ivan, and find ourselves packed right in the heart of Idaho's mountains and rivers. We're falling in love with the people of our small valley, especially the families in our church, which actually meets in the local middle school cafeteria.
We're creating this blog for three reasons. The first? Peer pressure. Two of my dearest girlfriends have blogs, and Josh and I find ourselves eager to read every post to stay in touch with the intricacies of their lives. The second- we want to keep track of every detail of the love and life we share together to preserve the adventure for our future LesslieBlain family. And third- we are blessed to have Josh's family very close, but my family is still in Kansas and Oklahoma. We want to stay in touch.
And so we write, and our odyssey on blog paper begins.
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