Thanks so much for joining me for Simple Life Sunday.  Grab your cup of tea or coffee and sit down with me and join me while I look through all the wonderful posts everyone has shared! Before you leave be sure to share one of your favorite posts.

What an AMAZING week!!

Thank you all for your prayers!!  The Mountain Boy ACED his driving test on Friday and he and I had a wonderful week driving in town everyday so he could get a lot of practice in.  I was EXHAUSTED!!!  I think ALL those trips to town did both he and I in!!

We have recovered and he was SO excited to have passed on his first try and to be an official licensed Idahonian!

God is so good ALL THE TIME!!

Then I got to switch my attentions to my Mountain Man who celebrated his birthday yesterday on the 4th as well as our anniversary!!

Marrying a man on his birthday guarantees he will remember your anniversary too!! 😉

We spent the day as a family out hiking, dinner just the two of us and a night's stay in our family built log guest cabin which was SO nice and SO relaxing!

I am blessed to be married to my Best Friend and it is hard to believe that 5 years have passed so quickly!

Here is a little something I shared on Facebook in regard to my thoughts on a healthy marriage….

Ephesians 5

25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her.

32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.

33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

This is an important aspect of marriage and a dynamic that when followed and when respect is mutually given a perfect marriage is formed….

We are not perfect, but we mutually respect one another and are best friend's.

As this respect grows so does the strength in your relationship and your relationship itself…. ♥

I encourage you to put your marriage first and your spouse!!  The rewards are AMAZING!!

Thank you all for sharing your posts last week…  What a great variety of posts!!

I was drawn specifically to Rhonda Crank from The Farmer's Lamp with her post titled The Farmer’s Lamp Readers Share Their Stories.  Have any of you ever read the Reminisce magazine?

I LOVED Reminisce because of the place it took me.  All those wonderful shared stories from a time past – a time that I felt I belonged in!  I love being able to listen to people's stories of times past and sharing in their excitement as they share!  Being able to make our own lifestyle here in the wilderness makes me feel like we are so close to those times and it does my heart good!

I would LOVE to have you share your own personal stories below today as well as your posts….  Please feel free to take over my comments below and share away….

Rhonda thank you so much for sharing and it was such an awesome pleasure to be able to chat with you this week on my Mountain Woman Radio show…   Stay tuned folks, you can listen in on our interview later this month!!  Blessings my dear friend to you and yours!  ♥

I would also like to encourage you to read Gregg from the Rural Economist‘s post titled Life Lessons with Ants and Bees.  Great post of amazing encouragement…  Blessings to you and yours as well my friend!!

I would like to wish you all a very blessed Resurrection Day!

 Thank you for sharing and I would like to invite  you to join Kat's Sunday Social (our sister hop).

I look very forward to seeing what you will have to share this week!

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God bless you and yours and may your day be filled with Simple Pleasures!

Tam (MWJ) ♥ <><

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