Well, all is well in the Buckhalt family... except that Johnathan as some really bad allergies and I'm missing everyone back home like crazy!! I looked through some old pictures of you guys and all these memories flooded my head, and now I feel like crying! you have no idea how much I wish there were some way for me to just drive down there and see ya'll tomorrow. I truly am blessed beyond measure to have so many friends to love. I'm sure there are people just as kind and trustworthy here, it's just a matter of finding them, that's all. I just don't know where to start looking.

Anyway, about Johnathan's allergies: He was helping his grandmother clean out an old barn (it had a bunch of old boxes in it) and he started coughing and sneezing a lot. He kept working for quite a while, but eventually had to come out and get some fresh air. He decided to sit down just outside the door and put together a crossbow he found that had never been opened. That's when I noticed his breathing had changed. It really scared me because it sounded exactly like asthma, and Johnathan doesn't have asthma. He decided to call it quits, but the next day he such a horrible sore throat he suspected it was strep. Since then he's been off and on with good days and bad days. He drinks a lot of hot tea and eats a lot of honey. Today he's gone to help his father out in that barn again, but he told me he would take an allergy pill and wear a mask. I hope that helps... and if it doesn't, I hope he will stop and go outside more often. I know he'll be fine, it's not as if he's in mortal danger, I just don't want him to feel like this anymore.

He's such a wonderful hard worker! He can get a disaster area clean and organized in just a few hours. Piles of junk don't overload his brain the way they do most people (including me). I can't even count the times when I've heard people say something along the lines of, "Oh, Johnathan! Thank you so much! This has been on the to-do list for years and no one knew where to start." I'm so proud of my husband!

Just the other day I showed him a really interesting video of the remains of Sodom and Gomorrah, and when it was over, he picked up the bible and continued right on studying the things that the video didn't tell us. When we read all the verses we could find on the topic, we kept on discussing it till 5:00 in the morning! It's so much fun being married to a man I can admire and learn from! He's got so much to teach me! I feel like I married a professor sometimes... Only the good kind of professor who doesn't charge me anything to learn, and doesn't act like he's a higher being because he knows everything! :) I can day dream with him, or even to him and he will listen and comment and love me. I can show him things I'm writing and know that he won't laugh at the silliness therein.

I trust him so much and feel so cherrished and safe, I even let him read my journals, which is something I've never really let anyone do. And you know what's great?? He actually likes reading them. *smiles and sighs* I think I have around 15 big journals and countless unmarked notebooks from since I was seven years old, and he was interested enough to read them. One he read all the way through was the one I kept when I was falling in love with him. * grins* He seemed to find that one especially interesting. He had all kinds of sound effects and commentaries he put in himself aswell. He's so cute!

Oh! Speaking of his being cute! I've drawn up a character sketch of him as a cute little cartoon kitten. I think I have five different faces that he actually does, pegged into cartoon fashion. EVEN NOW HE'S INSPIRING ME TO DRAW MORE OF THEM!!! He's so adorable.