Many Moments of Marital Bliss

Family and Friends,

I owe you a huge update. The past month has had it's ups and downs, but on this Thanksgiving Day of 2008, a number of blessings culminated in our little home. I am including a picture from the big day. We just wanted to say how THANKFUL we are to have all of you in our lives. God bless you!

Doug and Beth <><

I am pretty sure that after reading this blog a majority of you are either grinning from ear to ear, or throwing up from the word vomit of love. ;) Well for those of you who are weak in the stomach when it comes to words of love, you might want to click on another website. I won’t go into great detail about how and what happened, but I suffered a bad neck injury on Wednesday of this past week. This means that the woman of the household has been out of commission for nearly four whole days now. Now those women who run their household know that this is quite the large time to be down, and any number of things can happen to your household while out. In the Fisher household all has stayed well, due to my wonderful husband. During a time where I could barely lift my neck, let alone cook or clean anything, Doug took on the daunting task of household chores. Saturday morning we jokingly called him “Mr. Mom” (minus the whole children part). I told him tonight that he won the “Husband of the Year Award”. He worked hard to HAND-clean (aka handwash because we have no dishwasher) what seems like our millions of dishes, sanitize our impossibly small barbie-kitchen, pick up the living room, make our bed, straighten up our bathroom, and make sure that my every well being was first priority on this list. How this man does it all, I do not know. All I know is at this point there is very little I can do to repay his unconditional love; thus, I write. :) I guess this is appropriate for our year anniversary of the day we got engaged. I am truly living proof of the “for better or worse” and “in sickness and health.” Doug is an amazing husband. I am blessed to be married to the most sacrificing, selfless man in the entire world. This blog is intentionally spelled “OWED” to my husband, because while I know the it is in the territory of marriage for man and wife to give selflessly to one another, experiencing it is an entirely different matter. I was watching an episode of Oprah on how women feel absolutely spent, because they do everything around the household and are absolute control freaks. Well, I am glad to have met my match. One who be just as stubborn as myself to make sure that I am completely taken care of. So I will spend the rest of my life trying to pay back all of the love Doug shows me. Of course, I am incurring a long running tab, but by the end of our lives, I’m sure we will both call it even.

I love you Doug.

Dear Family and Friends,

It's hard to believe that at the time I am writing this blog, just a year ago today, I had no clue that Doug was going to ask me to marry him. It's been a year since that incredible day. Boy, am I so happy that Doug took the step to start our life as man and wife. While I loved the wedding planning, I am happy that we do not have to anxiously anticipate a single day of our life, but get to experience each day unfold (with a bunch of little anxious anticipations). Though this is a short note, I just wanted to say that last year the soon-to-be-Mrs Fisher is now this year an incredibly blessed and happy Mrs. Fisher. On a small side note (since my sister wants to be the one to share her excitement), on my birthday her boyfriend asked her to marry her! So now Julia gets to experience the excitement of the engagement time. Sissy, you are in our prayers! As we remember back to our special time, we just wanted you to know how excited we are for you and Andrew.

Well family and friends, we love you all. Thank you for sharing in the joy of our lives. The picture below is from that very special time, the engagement, just a year ago.

Mrs. and Mrs. :)