I decided to follow my good friend, Bri's idea of doing a highlight of what's been happening in Christian's World the past few months. Hold on tight!
1. I got engaged. And then I got married.
- Yep, I Christian Joseph Robertson is off the market, forever. That is official as of June 29, 2013. I was lucky enough to wed the beautiful and unique Blair Leonard(now Robertson). It has been great. She is the girl of my dreams and I am very happy. She believes in me and loves listening to my crazy "starring in a movie and having a house with water slides and Freestyle Coke machines" dreams. We had a great wedding and enjoyed having our friends, family, and co-workers there. Truly, a night to remember. We honeymooned to the Domincan Republic, which was beautiful and quite an experience at the same time. That is all I will say about that.
I suppose I am not super surprised that I just so happen to marry a teacher, being that I had a crush on a number of my teachers growing up. True story. It was real love, in my eyes anyway. More on that soon.
2. Colorado.
- If getting married wasn't a big enough change for both Blair and I, we tacked on moving to Highlands Ranch, Co. For those of you who do not know, I will clarify briefly. Weeks before my graduation last year(May 2012) I felt God calling me to go help serve at Connection Church(my home church, Crossroads, church plant). It was something entirely from left field in my eyes, totally not in "my plan". But God has a funny way of changing things, at the last minute might I add. After being convinced of this, I told Blair and she was on board. Fast forward a year, we arrived here a month after we were married. It is beautiful here. Very different from Louisiana for sure. The church family has done a great job of making us feel welcomed. Pastor Shawn is fantastic and I believe he is the man for the job. Also, it has been great to reconnect and serve alongside Lee, Bri, and Laura once again. Oh yea, people are Bronco crazy here. Sure beats people being Saint's crazy. I'd say this is an upgrade. I hope that burned, just a little bit. Go Falcons. *ahem*
3. Friends.
- I never was the friend who moved away. I was always the one who stayed. This time is quite different, obviously. I have missed my friends back home a whole lot. It is hard imagining their lives going on without me being there. Blair has felt the same way. It definitely takes some getting used to. Both old friends who've been there from the beginning and new friends who I've grown closer to recently are all missed. So if you get random text messages from me, you know why.
Besides our new church friends, who by the way are great, it hasn't been "easy" making new friends so far. I think once I score a job and get around people on a regular basis, I think it will change. Blair's off at work teaching all day, so I get a lot of time alone. To keep myself sane I hangout at the local Starbucks. I've made one friend or maybe just an acquaintance; his name is Darren and he's a Barista from Cali. I tried the sparking random conversation with people thing, but it hasn't worked too well. Maybe they aren't used to random people talking to them, or maybe I just come off as weird. Who knows, but someone will talk to me!
4. Social Media
- Living far away really isn't as bad as it could be. Because of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, I get to keep up and interact with most of you. So post away!
Until next time....
-Christian
