8 Years!

8 years ago today I stood in front of friends, family and my Creator and committed to love Sarah until my dying breath.  What an 8 years it has been!

We’ve made so many memories and had so many laughs.  We’ve traveled and we’ve been happy just relaxing at home. 

It has been my greatest joy, however, to see Sarah become a mother.  To see her grow from the 20 year old I married into a mature woman, seeking after God’s will in her life.  To see her love poured out on Caleb and the patience she has developed with him.  Yes, we’ve been married 8 years, yes “We’re old” as she says, but she is more beautiful to me than she was when we started dating in High School, more beautiful than she was when I asked her to marry me on the boardwalk in Ocean City, and more beautiful than when we were married those 8 years ago.  We have many more years to go and I’m sure she will continue to grow in beauty even as we age. 

Sarah,

I love you from the depths of my heart and can’t wait to see what the future brings. 

P.S. I used beautiful in the above blog post as a term that reflects Sarah’s outward and inward beauty but just for clarification…she’s also still smokin’ hot!

Dollar Shave Club

So I stumbled upon this company through a friends recommendation on twitter and now I feel the need to pass the word to anyone else who reads my blog. 

I’m not writing this as an ad or anything.  I just wanted to let guys (and girls) know that there is an option out there besides the big names in razors.

For years I have always used the latest and greatest name brand razor when I shave every morning.  I prefer Gillette (mostly due to them sending me a free razor when I turned 18 which kept me in that brand ever since).  Before I discovered Dollar Shave Club I used the Gillette Proglide Fusion Power (Sounds like a video game weapon doesn’t it?).  These blades, when purchased through Amazon’s subscribe and save option (giving me a discount and the cheapest price I could find) come out to $3.68 per blade.  These are great blades and I thought they were worth it to have a nice shave.

Now, anyone who knows me knows I’m a hairy guy and no matter how close I shave, I will have a rough face and a shadow by lunch time.  My facial hair is very coarse so a disposable BIC was never an option for me.  Obviously the Gillette blades really racked up in terms of cost for me so I knew there had to be a better way.

Enter Dollar Shave Club.  This company is great.  They remove the mark up and the marketing and will set up a monthly subscription where they mail you the blade refills.  There are 3 different blades ranging from 2 blades, 4 blades, or 6 blades in the razor.  I went with the middle and got the 4 razor blade model for $6 a month.  For that you get a razor and 4 blades (one a week) shipped to you.  Shipping is included in the $6.  $6 for 4 blades that’s $1.50 per blade.  That’s less than half of what I was paying before.  At first I wondered if they would last as long.  And I have waiting until I used them for 2 weeks before posting this.  I can say that they last about 2 days shorter than the Gillette blades do (on my face) and so it is still a much better deal for me. 

So anyway, check it out, give it a try if it will save you money and see what you think.  If you do decide to jump in and you want to be nice use the link below so that I can get a free month of razors!

https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/ref/1zek/njdrv8