The first time I met Julie I immediately noticed her bright smile, friendly eyes, and easygoing manner. Within several hours I noticed the most important quality to me in a wife – a huge heart for God and for service to others. Fast forward several months to the beginning of summer 2014. Sometimes things happen […]
At 37, my heart was really content with singleness. Life was full of friendship, a rewarding job, adventure, challenge, and excitement. Looking back, God really protected my heart from longing for a life I didn’t have – a married life with a husband and children. In the back of my mind, though, I always wondered […]
By guest writer Nathan Cunningham “I feel like you’re going to become a bride soon…” I overheard another passenger tell Holly as we made our way back to Alabama. It was February 2011 and we had both joined a missions trip down to New Orleans to evangelize during Mardi Gras, one of the world’s largest […]
Wow. How do I even get my mind around this idea? I’m a dad. I have to sit down every time I think about it. This has got to be the most exciting thought I have ever dwelt on. A little boy is coming out of our love story…quite literally out of Ann! Only God […]
I wrote the song “Let’s go on an Adventure, Ann” as a Christmas present to Ann last year. We decided to bring the song to life by making it into a music video during a recent trip to British Columbia, Canada last August. Destroy Nate Allen sang and produced the song…and did a great job! […]
One evening last spring, Ann and I ran into a friendly National Geographic photographer while waltzing along the boardwalk that follows the Huangpujiang River in Shanghai. He gave me pointers on how to better capture the brilliant Shanghai lights, and we learned that this guy had been all over the world. He talked about New […]
Katie is a distant friend of mine from high school, and after we ran into each other a couple summers ago in our hometown of Rapid City, SD, I invited her and her husband, Jeff, to write for our blog. These two have an awesome story to share about their love for each other and […]
Joe and I heard about the West Coast Trail about two weeks before our trip to Canada after doing a simple Google search. We had plans to travel to British Columbia for a week and a half after finishing Creation NW in Seattle. Knowing we both wanted to do something epic to celebrate the end […]
I grew up thinking that the words “I love you” were a statement of my endearment for someone. So whenever someone would say, “I love you” to me, I would sweetly say, “thank you” with a wink. And whenever I shared my endearment for another person using those special three words, I expected nothing more […]
In the fall of 2011, my wife, Stefani, and I awakened to reality. We only have 12 short years left to shape our children’s lives, to teach them the way of Jesus’ mission and the values of His Kingdom. And these are the years they will remember. These are the years where stories are created […]
One of the best parts about living in Colorado Springs is having the Garden of the Gods practically in our backyard. When we were living in our cabin, rent only cost us 400 bucks a month, but we felt like we were millionaires. When we walked out the front door, we could smell the mountain […]
I never would have thought that at 26 years old I’d be married, running three businesses with my husband, living in Colorado Springs, and talking about having kids. That’s not to say that I never thought these things would happen, just not in this particular combination 🙂 And truth be told, I couldn’t be happier. […]
We are sad to tell you that we have decided to take a break from continuing to develop our Wild Love Story blog. It has been fun to share our stories and develop this platform but it is important for us to direct all of our attention on our ministries and our marriage. We are […]
I feel like every couple should have a life mission or a theme to their relationship – something that defines their purpose as a couple. We found ours in Jeff’s 1st and 2nd Samuel class at Grace University. They had just finished reading through 1 Samuel 14. The Philistines were camped on one side of […]
Seeing a new extraordinary place for the first time is a wonderful experience. If it requires a bit of struggle to get there, it is almost always worth it. And if you have to struggle with someone that you love most, the experience will take your breath away. That’s why Ann and I work so hard […]
