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Welcome to the "Marriage After God" podcast.

We your hosts, I'm Aaron.

And I'm Jennifer.

We've been married for 14 years.

And we have five young children.

We started blogging over 10 years ago sharing our marriage story in hopes of encouraging other husbands and wives to draw closer to God and closer to each other.

We have authored over 10 books together including our newest book "Marriage After God" the book that inspired us to start this podcast.

"Marriage after God" has a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose.

To reflect his love.

To be a light in this world.

To work together as a team.

Using what he has given us.

To build his kingdom.

Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey.

As you boldly chase after God together.

This is "Marriage After God".

Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the "Marriage After God" podcast. We're are Aaron and Jennifer Smith, your hosts. I hope you have an awesome week. I just wanna start off by sharing a little thing that I'm doing with the van, Jennifer.

You're going to tell him about the van?

The van.

Okay, but it was my idea, like give me a little credit.

It was definitely your idea. So we love to drive which we'll talk about in the actually today's episode.

I have a normal van. Like it's not a minivan. It's not a, what is it?

Well, people call it...

They call it, it's the full size. It's a Ford transit, it's a big old boy, it's huge. It's got all the seats you could want.

For all the kids.

But you know what it doesn't have until now, a toilet. But I put a toilet in that van. And the reason we did that is because we like to drive. We like to go on road trips, especially with all the kids. It's so easy to, that's how we go see our family.

Yeah.

We get in the car and we drive

But it takes us like 15 hours to get there. So imagine being on the road with five kids, that's a lot of bathrooms stops and sometimes that's all we're stopping for. And so I told Aaron, we need a bathroom in here even if it's like something easy to sit on and...

And it is, and so I've been work. Something I've been doing as a hobby is work at building vans. And so I took my van and I built this box out in the back and I put a toilet in there today.

He showed me today, it actually looks really awesome.

I'm really excited to use it this spring, summer, fall.

All of our adventures. I told them, even if we go.

It's gonna change everything.

Even if we go to the lake for the day. Imagine how nice it will be when we're out on an adventure and even though we're kind of close to home we don't have to rush home. If someone has to use the bathroom, we can use that. And you're gonna put like a handheld shower thing.

There is gonna be a hot water shower in the back? Not like to take a full-blast shower in the van. We can rinse the kids off. We can rinse the boards off. We can, it's just gonna be awesome. So cool, guys I'm stoked about it. I'm pretty proud of myself. I have a friend helped me and we're doing a pretty good job and it's coming out nice. So this is totally in our van now.

Called the adventure wagon.

Yeah, it's awesome and it fits all the kids. Plus one, if we needed another seat.

Oh,