Our 3rd Anniversary

For our anniversary, we thought about heading to a nice cabin up at Mount Rainier, but since we have just come back from a trip and things are pretty busy around here, we're going to stay close to home for now.

It's always fun to look at wedding pictures, especially when they're you're own and you get to relive that day in your memory. This year, the weather has already turned cold and the leaves have begun to change colors. Our wedding day was a warm, sunny 70 degrees that felt like the summer was lingering on. We are forever grateful to God for the weather that day!

The Salt Ceremony--Red salt (mine) and white salt (his) blending into one. They cannot be separated. The salt ceremony in the bible was the highest covenant you could make with God apart from a blood sacrifice.

Married! I remember just feeling numb that day...or maybe it just felt right. I wasn't necessarily excited or nervous; it seemed like what we were supposed to do. It was probably God's mercy since I was so scared about getting married. It's nothing to enter lightly, that's for sure!


I am so very thankful for God bringing us together across two different continents by a string of events that only gave further proof of His divine plan. Ryan is a wonderful husband who seeks to become more like Christ, to learn about me, and I am secure in his faithfulness to me.

Thank you Lord for the gift of my husband, my best friend. Thank you for these three years of marriage, and I pray for many more together.

Part III--The Gili Islands

Here's the third of probably two more parts! If you're still checking out our pictures, I hope you're getting a good overview of this part of the world. If you read the captions, which I'm not including in the slideshow since they're long, then you'll better understand the culture of Bali and Lombok. Of course, we only got a short view of the culture there and other tidbits, but hopefully you're enjoying learning some of the things that we learned on our trip.

This group of pictures is not of Bali. It's of two very small islands off of Lombok, which is an island just east of Bali. This was our relaxing get-away that we had been looking for. It was a bit crazy getting there, but well worth it once we arrived. A few of these pictures were in an earlier post, but I added them again here where they could be "in context".

Here's the link to see the pics larger and read the captions.

Bali Part 2

Here's our second set of Bali pics. There will still be more to come! Again you'll see the pictures best and be able to read the captions to understand the pics better if you click this link and scan at your own pace. Otherwise, here's a quick slideshow below.

Back From Bali

We made it home late Wednesday night. It's now around 3:15 am on Friday morning and I'm not tired since I took long naps during the day (which was the night in Bali). So, I thought I'd do a little blogging. : ) Of course, there is too much to write about all that we saw and did on our trip. You probably don't want all of the details anyway, but I hope to give you a good picture of Bali and some of Lombok from our vacation. Though the beginning of our trip was frustrating and laden with culture shock, the middle and end of it were great. I took about 1,500 pictures, so I'm trying to narrow those down. : P I'll be posting them in parts. Part one I'm linking below. You can click on this link http://picasaweb.google.com/estutzman2005/BaliPartI# to best view the pictures and read the captions at your leisure. Otherwise, I'm embedding a small slideshow version below.