Randoms

Beautiful flowers in San Fran....look at that amazing color! Makes me SO excited about Farmer's Market coming up in the Spring! Even if we can't afford to pay the crazy prices, it's still so much fun!

Another pic from beautiful California...can you count how many different shades of blue are in this picture?

My first "Big Mountain" (not sure if it really needs to be capitalized, but better safe than sorry) experience! We finally got there after 3 hours driving in zero visibility. Makes Dallas winters feel like the stinkin' summer!

Nate and I before we started skiing Winter Park.

Winter is turning out to be a lot of fun...I'm not horrible at skiing anymore, I'm getting used to the snow, and I've recently discovered a love of running in the snow (who knew?) Nate and I went and looked a house the other day...didn't really turn out to be ideal (i.e. structural issues) but it was such a surreal experience in and of itself. We've discovered that it might actually be less expensive to buy a home here, so we've started looking around just to figure out if there's a place that meets our stringent guidelines. Hey, not just any house can be a Disarro house.

It's become very normal/still weird to think about grown-up things like buying a house and mortgages and interest rates (still sounds like a foreign language). I guess it's got to happen sometime, but I feel kind of funny even typing it out!

Bunker has been having SO MUCH FUN in the snow! He loves running in it, and it's hilarious when it makes him all frisky. He hops around a lot when it gets cold out, so we have a great time taking him on walks and everything.

I think that's about all...we're kind of boring other than the growing up stuff, but will definitely continue to try to keep this updated more often!

2 Years

Tuesday of this week marked our 2 year anniversary! And what an interesting two years it's been. I think that Nate and I can both truly say that we have never had so much fun and we've never undergone so much hurt, selfishness, loneliness, and just overall instability. Super fun, right?

We were told when we were getting married that marriage is like a mirror that you see the "real" you reflected in. At first I thought that was really dumb, and like all engaged couples (I'm sure), I thought that surely MY husband and I would never have that experience. That we were open and honest and truly capable to enter into marriage and not have a flaw. I'll tell you though, marriage and love in general truly is a mirror, and it makes you see some of the best and some of the worst you have to offer.

I've learned that no matter how much you plan and how many precautions you take, the Lord's plan for you will probably not match up to everything you plan for. For example, we live in Colorado now, and for the longest time I was sure I would be a Texan for life. With such a great state (and I still truly believe that) why would you ever want to leave? But after two years in Dallas I started to feel trapped and completely unlearned in the ways of other people, even in our own country. Nate and I both felt called to leave, and not knowing what would happen, we up and moved to Colorado. I think that the drive to leave and start something new is what led us on our road to discovering what marriage is about.

Once in Colorado we were truly alone (not as in there are no people around us, but just without people we had really known before). Helping to start Watermark in Denver helped us to become less selfish because there were needs outside of our marriage to fulfill. The Lord began to show each of us how selfish we were being with one another, and began to help us communicate our needs and wants in much more mature ways. Not to say that everything is perfect, because I think that is an improbability in this world, but we have realized how truly and amazingly blessed we are in our marriage. We love one another so much, and can't wait to spend the rest of our lives together (cheesy but oh so true!!!)
On another note, our sweet sweet Bunker turned 2 years old on the same day! This is one of the first pictures we took of him, circa 8 weeks old and 9 lbs. To this day, he doesn't realize he's not 9 lbs. anymore (he's about 100 now). That's one big baby boy!