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Bring your fun spirit to the marriage. Stand your ground.

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Use your wedding ring to open beers.

The Lords Prayer and Tithe

The strip on dance

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Peter talked Elias into joining him in Montreal to watch the elite cross country skiers which to Peter were the most Elite Athletes of the world. We get to this small town and land a front row parking spot. All to find a Jr. Ski meet and that at the actual meet was supposed to be the following month.

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JD and Peter rented a cabin and brought corn chips and tuna to hike a 7 mile hike with an electronic map that couldn’t connect to the internet to find out they went 5 miles the wrong way. When finally getting back to the cabin they were so hungry and tired they ate the food, fell asleep, and then left upon waking.

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Communicate with your wife. Over-communicate.

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You set goals together. Let the goals help you to be intentional about having fun.

Pray together.

Go to marriage counseling. It is awesome!

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"The Knot" "Peter Lamb" "Karen Vitaley" Money or Williams and Sanoma. Garnet Hill. Amazon

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Been married 10 years and we are just now starting to be open. In my mind things should be a certain way….doesnt work. Be open to how she might see it too. And be quick to forgive.

You find the women that you want to get married to. Then you learn to love this women after you get married.

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The wife is always right. Learn her love language. Learn how she interprets your love with her. Don’t assume you know her love language. Based on the book 5 love languages. Find out what hers is and share what yours is.

Marriage is a lot of work. The wedding is only the beginning. The beginning of a commitment to everything.

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When she has an issue you both as a team have an issue. #teamworkmakesthedreamwork

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Pray together. Sometimes its a grind. Just show up and you’ve got half the battle covered.

My neighbors were arranged and have been able to make it work based on Eric Johnson’s point of learning to love the women after the wedding.

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Its easy to spend time in the early years without kids. When you have kids things get very busy. Keep a weekly date night. Protect and be intentional with this time. Especially when things get busy.

3 relationships: yourself, the girl, and the marriage

Phillip Mamalakis at Holy Cross in Boston. Wrote the book on Pre-marital counseling.

-Uses research from John Gotman and others and integrates it into the world orthodox views.

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Came to visit at a bee keeping conference. Tried to take a tub of honey back with him. Absolutely sure they would hold. When he got off the plane the baggage claim guys were not happy. Honey went everywhere!

-they didn’t reimburse him but gave a bunch of mileage.

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John Mathis moved in. Peter was dating his friend and John took Peter’s girlfriend.

Peter: He wasn’t a roommate he was a tenant who lived in the closet.

Someone: How much did the closet cost to rent?

Someoneelse: 1 girlfriend

Peter: the reason the girl broke up with him was b/c he didn’t have his life together. Says the girl who dated the guy renting a closet from Peter.

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Last minute trip to Vegas from LA, but we kept getting carded at every casino. We realized that Peter was wearing his Little League jacket ("it still fits") and he looked like he was 12 (but he was over 21).

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Traveled from Main to Alaska to visit peter. Went to value village and got some tapes for the tape deck. Omertà was the tape (like “The Godfather”) that stands for the scilian code of silence. They also found Teddy Ruspkin and put this tape in him so he could read the book to them.

Also found a soundtrack that was inspired by the movie “Lethal Weapon 3”

Also Hootie and The Blowfish

The Orange Flight Suit. Peter comes up the isle in this orange flight suit and wore it everyday and all the time forever more. Halloween was a big Orange flight suit wearing time.

Peter decided it would be good to sneak back into the truck and leave Noah to almost be trampled by a herd of Buffalo.

All of these stories were with Peter’s Jeep Truck “Red Sonja”

Another tape was “African Folktales of a Nanny”

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Elias to Peter Money email notification: “Payment for Heroin” on an electronic payback.

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Elias to Peter Money email notification: “Payment for Heroin” on an electronic payback.

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Running race. Made a chomp/gew with chia seeds and water. The chia seed/water mix broke open allover Eric’s car as Peter was shaking to share with Eric

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Went to Cane’s head. Got lost. Had to swim around the point to beat the tide.

Peter: Hannah and her sister insisted that they were lost and the guys guaranteed they were not. But they were

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-Took revealing photos on Eric’s disposable camera of themselves as young boys at church camp.

-photos of young boys in their boxers with duct tape on their mouths.

-When going to pick up the picture the girl at the photo counter gave Eric a very weird look.