Reflections

Erik and I had another great weekend! We got to spend Friday night up in Dillon at a condo with a friend of Erik's from graduate school and then skied all day Saturday at Copper. It was a beautiful day! We even got a little sunburned...definitely a good sign that spring is just around the corner.
 It's been so fun to finally be together in the same place doing the same things.  I can remember what it was like 3 years ago when Erik was in New Zealand and I was back in Longmont and we were trying to figure out how our relationship would look and work. As I think back now those times now I realize that they were challenging for us, but necessary.   We were challenged to trust each other and challenged to trust our own decision to be in relationship at such a time.  There was never any question that we shouldn't be in relationship, but it was hard to know that after just three short months of dating our lives would be lived thousands of miles apart and in completely different ways.
Thankfully, both of us trusted.  A love had been established between us that no distance could break. Love won out. Here we are just 2 1/2 short months away from our wedding day and I could not be more thankful for the passions and travels that Erik pursued in our time dating.  They have helped foster a deeper love and appreciation for travel and pursuit of adventure not only for Erik, but for myself as well, and for our relationship. I so look forward to building and creating our own adventures in marriage, and will be SO thankful that no longer will we be having to fight any distance between us in marriage! Well, that may not be true, but at least we will be married :)
Thankful today for: beautiful sunshine and spring time air and an adventurous fiance.
Not so thankful today for a 30 page paper I have to write... I better get back to working on it!