Marriage

When Doug proposed to me at the airport when he was going back to Japan from leave, I felt like I was the luckiest woman in the world.  I loved how he made me feel and I am always overjoyed to make him feel happy, wanted and loved.  Over the next few weeks we found out that we would be faced with some obstacles.  But I'm so proud to say that God has been the driving force in making our marriage a reality.

We were faced with obstacles that he took care of.  My lease just so happened to be up the month before we were to leave.  If it had not been then I would have had to pay way more rent to go month to month.  I found someone (a good friend) to buy my car who needed one.  He had recently moved and wasn't sure if things would work out with moving again but they did.  He found a house for all of us that will be big enough for when the twins get here in March.  There were more things that I can't seem to remember at this moment but God was with us the entire way.  I have to think that the command sponsorship hasn't come yet because there's a reason that is yet to be revealed.  The one thing that I've learned to do is trust and have faith.  God never puts more on us than we can handle.

When we found out the process we would take to get married in Japan, we were both very excited.  It was a step above getting a double proxy marriage in Montana where neither one of us needed to be present.  Friends were sad that they wouldn't get an opportunity to see us get married and we thought it would be nice to write our own vows and say them and send a copy of the video back to family and friends.  As of this day, we haven't said our vows to one another but we did email them.  We are definitely a family into technology LOL.  I hope that one day we will be able to fulfill this request and say our vows in our garden, when time allows.