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Category: My lil’ family
Today marks the sixth year of my marriage to Ivan Peter Martens.
As of today (compared to six years ago):
We know each other more deeply and wholly.
We have more wrinkles and gray hairs.
We have learned to keep talking and work out our conflicts more easily and quickly.
We are closer to Jesus with each other.
We have settled into a home we call our own.
We have two beautiful daughters.
Thus we are more tired and more poor, but happy.
We have walked through grief unknown and unheard of to us when we made our vows.
We have seen God begin to pull us up and out of the muddy pit of our grief.
And we are still married and stronger because of all of it.
Six years of marriage.
So thankful.
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Here is to another wonderful, less grief filled, more abundance filled six years of knowing one another even more and walking the journey close together.
how about a message on a chain link fence?
When I was a teenager we lived in a mountain town in northern California that used to be a stopping point for loggers. We lived in a very old house that had a wrap around porch. My mom, being the Trudi that she is, put up a clothesline. For big occasions or to make a grand announcement she would use the clothesline. She would take cloth diapers and electric tape and write out a message hanging it for all to see. So I kind of copied this idea. Thanks Mom.
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Quite fun making a surprise with Audrey for her daddy. We rehearsed it for weeks prior to the big event. We used a bandanna to cover his eyes and played up the whole surprise semi-kidnapping factor.
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I left it up for a week after Father’s Day and we got many a look and then a smile and then some pointing. People would slow down to look at it, shout out their car windows, “that’s cute”, and a few kids I overheard walking by reading the sign to their buddies.
I think everyone in the neighborhood knows without a doubt that we love our daddy.
For those of you who watch Sid the Science Kid the title above is reference to the cute little song he sings when Miss Maria calls them all in for class time on the rug. I digress too early in this post. “Cousin” (aka Elliott) was over for a sleep over this past week and here are some cute shots Ivan captured in the bath tub. Please note the amount of toys crammed in with the kids. Also, in addition please note that I refrained from posting a wonderful photo of Elliott pouring water on Audrey’s head with the beads of water getting caught in the flick of a shutter; however, there were certain male parts that were in full view. Not sure how my nephew would feel about me posting that on the world wide web. But here are a few others for your enjoyment.
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