Celebrating 100 Months!

Happy Monday, my friends!!

Thank you so much for your kind words and monthiversary love this past weekend! We really did have the best day together. 

Since Allen's death, Ryan has spent hours upon hours working on paperwork and sitting on the phone to begin the process of working through all that needs to be done from this point forward. Pretty much every spare, non-working moment he's had since February has been devoted to that, and one of the biggest gifts we had on Friday was that his phone did not ring one time with an estate question. It had to be a God-blessing, and we gratefully received it.

We slept in that morning and went to Cosmos for lunch. We learned about Cosmos last fall when we went there for breakfast after we got up early to vote! I decided I like their breakfast food better than their lunch food, but it was still yummy. I even tried something I've never had (or even heard of) before: lemon rice soup!

After that, we headed to a place I've always wanted to go - dating back to my station days when I was in Fort Wayne all the time. There's a botanical conservatory downtown, and it's attached to the hotel that hosted the marriage retreat we went to a couple of times when we were first married. We decided we'd check it out, and apparently we picked a great day, because they even had some bunnies and chicks in the house! They had it all set up to be socially distanced nicely, with the paths roped off for one way traffic, and there were weren't a ton of people there when we went. It was really fun! One of the workers took our picture at the photo opp place:

And we really enjoyed our trip through the  buildings. (Tamar, I thought of you several times while we were there!) 

I took a ton of pictures, but I'll just share a few.

It was really fun to visit there, and we heard that their butterfly exhibit is coming up, so we think we'll have to visit again in a little while!

It was SUCH a pretty day, even if it was a little bit chilly, so we decided to head to the beautiful park downtown. There weren't many people there either, so we walked all around and got some great pictures! 

We never did have dinner that night, but we did stop for some dessert and coffee at the little shop just down from the station. I loved that place when I worked there!

And then we rounded out the day with a Good Friday service. Our friends Jon and Julie had a service at their church that was beautifully put together. The song and painting presentation at the end was powerful!!

It was a great day together - just the two of us - with conversations for hours and some great car karaoke, too! 

Love you, Ryan! Thanks for a great monthiversary!