Sam's Blog: 525,600 Minutes How Do You Measure, Measure A Year?

Has it only been one full year since I became Mrs. Swartz? The first year of wife life has been a whirlwind of amazingness. I did not know it was possible to fall in love with someone over and over again everyday, but some how Josh makes it easy. Some days I can't even fathom how someone could love me as much as Josh loves me. On days when I feel ugly, stupid, or worthless Josh always comes to my rescue and reminds me just how beautiful and lovely I really am. The only thing that could make him any better is if he liked Chipotle and singing along to Broadway soundtracks- he does like Hamilton though so that's a start! But in all seriousness I am so honored and blessed that I got to spend the last year of my life with this amazing human being, and I am so excited to see what the next 2, 5, 10, 25, 80 years have in store for us.

We want to thank all of our friends and family. We could not have had such a successful transition into adult married life without your love and your support. There are a handful of you adult-y adults out there that I look up to and I want thank you for being such great role models for us. My in-laws have helped us in so many ways from letting us borrow their ladder, their chainsaw, their power washer and more and for helping us with our landscaping, taking us out to dinner or mini golfing or chocolate world and by just being encouraging, showing us love and being fantastic role models. To my parents who have done more for me than I think they realize. I can not thank them enough for the love and support they have shown me during my 23 years of life before I was married, and now they get to share that love with their son-in-law. Our married friends who have such strong, loving relationships with their significant others are role models for us, we love double dating or having you guys over for dinner (I was just mentioning to Josh the other day that we need to have our other married friends over more often). Our non-married friends who understand our new lives as a married couple and who still love us even if we don't get to get together as often as we'd like to. We are a part of a loving church family who has supported us as Josh took the role of youth pastor and they accepted me with open arms into KidzLife working with the babies and toddlers in the church. We are sincerely blessed to have all of you in our lives! You all have had your part in shaping us into who we are.

And I want to send a special thanks out to Josh. I always imagined what married life would be like, and he far exceeds anything I could have imagined. He is so loving, encouraging, sarcastic, and goofy. I love how he can make me smile and laugh when I've had a bad day, how he always asks me if something is wrong if have my pouty face on, how he sometimes makes goofy faces at me, how he uses me in sermon illustrations, how he is so forgiving when I forget to get him tea at the grocery store, how he hugs me after we've been apart for a few hours, how he snaps me back to reality when I get stuck in my dream world in my head, how he is so encouraging and passionate about everything he does. I am beyond blessed to have such a strong, godly, goofy, lovable man in my life. I love you Josh, to infinity and beyond.