Married Life

I have decided to start a blog so I have an easy way to update my family on what's new in mine and Brett's lives. We have been married for 8 months now. Married life has been fun. I feel like life changes after marriage. Brett and I have known each other for years and we dated for a long time before getting married, if you count the time that we dated when we were in middle and high school. However, something in me changed the moment I got married. I feel like I am no longer one person, I am living for someone else now too. 

Here is an example of how life changed immediately after getting married.

Brett and I went to Bend, OR about one month after getting married. We were in Bend for family quilting at my Aunt Sue's house so Brett and I decided to stay for a long weekend. While we were there we decided to do some site seeing and a little bit of hiking. We decided to go to Paulina Falls. This is an awesome waterfall, or two waterfalls rather, that drop about 20 feet to a bunch of rocks. 

When Brett and I made it to the top of the falls we were irritated because some people had decided to climb the rocks at the bottom and we were having trouble getting a picture of the falls without them in it. Anyway, we decided to hike to the bottom of the falls. When we got there Brett decided that it actually looked fun to climb the rocks to get a better view of the falls. If you climbed high enough you could actually get pretty close to where the falls met the rocks. 

Now here is where marriage has changed me. Any other time I would have climbed the rocks with him and I would have thought that it was a good idea. But no! I immediately told him that it was stupid idea and that he was not allowed to climb the rocks! It was dangerous. Well Brett didn't listen and told me I was being irrational and ruining his fun. So he climbed the rocks anyway. While Brett was climbing the rocks I was at the bottom standing on the trail crying at him that he was going to get hurt and die. Then I was so angry  that he went despite my pleading that I started yelling at him that I was taking pictures so that when he fell to his death I could have it documented! This is so out of character for me. But I will tell you, I had no control over this reaction. It scared me to the core and I couldn't rationalize. I was mad even after he made it down safely. It was like I could see my life falling apart at my finger tips and I couldn't imagine life without him. 

                     

Other than this trip to Bend we haven't had much to time to go out adventuring. We are happily married and loving every minute of our marriage.