Love {Megan}

Our next little love dare is from a neat girl named Megan. Megan is a fellow photographer lover, and lives really close to my home town. I've had lots of fun keeping in contact with her these past few years and seeing her little daughter Angela grow, as well as watch their adorable house renovation. If anyone knows me--you know I love remodeling older houses, and Megan and her husband have done a great job!

Her advice is really touching to me and Jace, as we are now married, and it's great to see love's perspective from a married couple. We do truely think it is the little things that make the most happiness.

So, THANK you Megan for the wonderful love dare. I enjoyed reading and learning from it. And I hope all the readers learn something as well!!

"Being a young married couple is always difficult and sometimes it's a challenge to keep the romance going after a few years. However, you never really know a challenge until you throw a child into the young marriage. Tyler and I have attempted many times to do things for just our selves and nothing ever seems to become a reoccurring event. For a while we did a sort of camp out on an air mattress in our living room watching hockey movies and then we'd fall asleep out there. But that soon faded with an infant waking you up...the air mattress shifting as you get off of it tends to kill the mood. We soon found a love for cooking together. We'd throw on some good tunes, crank them up real loud and whip up a new meal that we had seen that morning on Rachel Ray or some other show. However life started getting in the way with that one when Tyler started working shift work. He wasn't always home and when he was it was such odd hours that cooking to loud music was out of the question...it would wake the baby. However, I think we may have found it. We combine the four things we both love to do every other saturday night...or friday night, whichever one works out best that week. We start off the evening with cooking up a meal, usually some good homemade chili or buffalo wings and enjoy a family dinner with our daughter. After dinner and dishes are settled, we have a dance hour. The three of us put on the best music that we've come up with from that week and we dance to it for an entire hour. Tyler and I get to practice our polka, swing, two stepping, jiving, and Angela(our daughter) gets a kick out of the movements and laughter. Since all three of us our worn out from the dancing, we settle Angela into bed, and while she winds down we read a chapter out of our books to each other so we get an idea of what the book is like...its easier to decide if you want to read it after them or not. And when the chapter reading is over and done with, we pull up a movie on the computer in our bedroom and drift off to sleep cuddling. It doesn't seem like much, but after a few years of marriage you begin to notice that it's the everyday, miniscule things adding up together that turn out to make the best of nights. "