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2 Days
Just look at that title! AUUGGGHHH!!!
Something Unexpected About Engaged Life
I think the biggest thing I was not expecting with engaged life was the type of challenges we would face. It seemed like most people who would advise me on the difficulties of being engaged focused on struggles with the Law of Chastity--to the degree that I should be always on the ready for THAT to happen. CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!! Check.
However, what everybody failed to mention was the REAL challenge we've had to deal with--doubts and sometimes poopy feelings about this entire thing. I tell you what--Mr. Adversary can be a real BEE-YOTCH sometimes. {Sorry, Mom...} I remember a day (or a series of days?) last month when I could not seem to shake the feeling that by marrying me, Skyler was definitely ruining his life. Yeah--you followed that. I never doubted SKY, I doubted ME! It was c'est pas bien. All the way. Anyway, with a little help from the Man Upstairs, we shook that feeling eventually.
AND...because of these type o' challenges--as unexpected as they were--I can say I love this talk even more. Its fabulous. If you haven't read it, get 'er done. Elder Holland is the bomb-diggety. Fo' Shizzle.
However, what everybody failed to mention was the REAL challenge we've had to deal with--doubts and sometimes poopy feelings about this entire thing. I tell you what--Mr. Adversary can be a real BEE-YOTCH sometimes. {Sorry, Mom...} I remember a day (or a series of days?) last month when I could not seem to shake the feeling that by marrying me, Skyler was definitely ruining his life. Yeah--you followed that. I never doubted SKY, I doubted ME! It was c'est pas bien. All the way. Anyway, with a little help from the Man Upstairs, we shook that feeling eventually.
AND...because of these type o' challenges--as unexpected as they were--I can say I love this talk even more. Its fabulous. If you haven't read it, get 'er done. Elder Holland is the bomb-diggety. Fo' Shizzle.
TWO DAYS!!
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
4 Days
My Favorite "Sky Moment" So Far
This was supposed to come on Day 10, but I knew I needed more time to think about it and decide. There have been so many great ones! My man is a GOOD man, after all, and he has regularly been AMAZING in the last several months. So how to pick a favorite?! But...I did.
My favorite "Sky moment" (Catie's phraseology, not mine. But...I like it.) came in August when we went camping overnight with my family. Camping with my fam usually involves eating, lots of fishing, then REPEAT. Sky hadn't been fishing in YEARS, but he was willing to give it a go, so we went fishing! We went fishing Friday AND Saturday. Skyler did, indeed, catch a fish. He baited hooks. He worked on casting out the line. And he even helped clean the fish--in all that bloody glory! It was a great time being together with him and the family.
Overall, it was Sky's willingness to try something I love--even if he had little to no idea of what he was doing!--that makes this my favorite moment. Its just FISHING. No big deal, right? But it was a big deal to me and it made me love him even more.
So there you go. My favorite "Sky Moment" was watching Skyler fish at Teapot Lake in the Uintah Mountains with my funny family. Watching him gut a fish was pretty awesome too.
My favorite "Sky moment" (Catie's phraseology, not mine. But...I like it.) came in August when we went camping overnight with my family. Camping with my fam usually involves eating, lots of fishing, then REPEAT. Sky hadn't been fishing in YEARS, but he was willing to give it a go, so we went fishing! We went fishing Friday AND Saturday. Skyler did, indeed, catch a fish. He baited hooks. He worked on casting out the line. And he even helped clean the fish--in all that bloody glory! It was a great time being together with him and the family.
Overall, it was Sky's willingness to try something I love--even if he had little to no idea of what he was doing!--that makes this my favorite moment. Its just FISHING. No big deal, right? But it was a big deal to me and it made me love him even more.
So there you go. My favorite "Sky Moment" was watching Skyler fish at Teapot Lake in the Uintah Mountains with my funny family. Watching him gut a fish was pretty awesome too.Image from here
Monday, September 12, 2011
5 Days
Three Ways You Are Similar;
Three Ways You Are Different
Similarities:
- We are both "home bodies" and prefer hanging at home on the couch to going out to large parties and such.
- We are both fans of the U--GO UTES!
- We are both musically-minded. He plays the guitar and the piano. I pretend to play the guitar and play the piano.
- Skyler is bilingual to my monolingual. And he speaks French on a fairly regular basis. I don't understand him 7/8 of the time when he does that, but its fun all the same.
- We naturally communicate differently (even when we're both speaking English)--but we're getting better at understanding one another. My "say it like it is and what it IS is exactly what I'm thinking right now" Red Personality approach doesn't always jive with Sky's more mellow, low-key approach to life. I really should try to be more like him. Its more people-friendly.
- Sky's favorite pie (Banana Cream) is my least favorite pie. Go figure.
BONUS Similarity--We're both ADORABLE!!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
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