2 years

Last week, on June 2nd, Nate and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary. It's always great to have an excuse to go out for our favourite meal of the day - breakfast. After a hearty meal of meat and eggs galore we decided to climb one of my favourite mountains, Mt Kiera, despite the pelting rain.


By the time we started out the rain had slowed to a drizzle and then the sky cleared for the rest of our trip except for 1 nice shower on the way down. The weather on our many adventures always reminds Nate and me that we are like little children who are constantly getting good gifts from our Heavenly Father, who can calm or stir a storm.

Above is a statue at the start of the climb with the clearing sky behind.

What I love about Mt Kiera is that it is only about a 2 hour round trip (although now it's a bit longer for a pregnant lady) and involves climbing a "waterfall" (never more than a trickle), scrambling up steep, loose hills with hands and feet, scaling a few large boulders, getting dirty and finding the odd leech. Nate always beats me in the amount of leeches we pick up on wet walks. This time Nate won hands down 5 -0. He even had one on his belly!

We are making it a tradition to sum up our marriage for the year in one word. Last year we easily came up with "revealing". This year it took about all of Mt Kiera to come to an agreement. We decided to sum up our 2nd year with the word "adventure". Since June 02, 2008 we've been blessed to visit Puerto Rico, Europe and Australia (and to have a 2 night stay in Asia if that counts) not to mention plenty of wonderful adventures in good old Kentucky. Each place holds a new story and lesson for us. Most of all, our marriage has been full of adventure and excitement metophorically. Learning more about God and each other has been the best part. And I can tell you, be it on our futon, a camping mat or in a foreign land, there is nothing much more exciting for me than the joy of waking up next to Nate each morning