(Joshua Writes:) Okay it's hit me... I'm getting married. I always knew I was getting married but then... the phone calls. You know those phone calls from friends and family that start off well intentioned but by the end they make you more nervous than you were before they called. My boss called me today and offered me a TDY to Antartica to play basketball for the base or something to that nature; I considered for a minute... *kidding.* Alright so tonight I just wanted some alone time to go be by myself and enjoy a few more hours of single life... So I figured a few hours at the gym wouldn't do me any harm. The one place where no phones could stop me and no one would bother me. Yeah didn't go that way. It's hard going anywhere when you're a "High Profile" Airman. Not because of anything bad, but just because you're the "go-to guy." My nick name is high-speed cause i've done more by the time I was 20 than most people do by the time their 30. I did my B.S.O.E. degree in 19 months. I'm everything every military leader has wanted. So over the last two years at Luke, people have heard the name, it's not the easy to forget, and i've developed a reputation as the golden boy. Talk about pressure. But I love it and to the best of my knowledge I handle it well. So i'm at the gym trying to do my thing and once your this high profile everyone knows everything about you. So I get the typical "So your getting married?" This happens over and over again. So the one thing that I wanted to get away from for a few minutes has followed me like the plague. I do my best thinking when I run... and I'll for 20 some odd miles when i've got enough on my mind. I wish I would have run further to sort it all out, but before I even got into a rhythm I realized that I'm ready for this marriage and that I have nothing to worry about. Ashley loves me so much, I have no idea what I did for God to bless me with such an amazing woman, but ohh how glad I am that I did. I was always told that you can't find love because love finds you. Well if that isn't more true with Ashley and I then I don't know what is. Neither of us were looking for us, but it happened, and she is... the most amazing thing that has ever happend to me. So what sort of epiphany can I decipher at 2130? Well for one thing I'm still nervous, but now I realize i'm not nervous about spending the rest of my life with someone, it's being good at spending the rest of my life with someone. And if I had to get it right with ONE person... it's going to be Ashley. Secondly, I can take the advice that all of you have given me and apply it. Open that Bible up and KEEP applying it to my life. Finally, God has blessed me with the most amazing woman he has ever made... and when I think about that... that God made this woman... this magnificent woman for me to love for the rest of my life... how afraid could I be? I'm ready. Ashley... i'm going to marry you tomorrow... I love you with all my heart.

And to all of you that have taken the time to read a little about who we are and the love that we share, I thank you.