4 years

Wishing my hubs a happy 4th anniversary today. It's been a life-changing experience for me, this whole marriage thing. I wouldn't change it for the world. I'd just move "the world" a little closer to my side of the country.

So I asked him this morning for 4 favorite memories. One for each year that we've been married. He started to say, "Seeing you walk down the aisle. . .Seeing you walk down the aisle. . . seeing you down. . ." Then I stopped him. I said, "Nope, can't use the same answer 4 times in a row." So he said, "Seeing you walk down the aisle, just having you in my life, you being there with me when my parents passed away, and watching you see your very first whale because I love to see you get all excited." (Sweet, I know.) Then I told him mine. "The roses you had delivered to the church to surprise me the morning of our wedding, a drive down through the Gorge last spring and stopping at almost every single waterfall along the way, bringing him home from the hospital alive last summer, and this one time we were at a scrapbook store and I was looking for these particular rub-on letters and you actually found them before I did." Then he goes, "Babe, I always find things before you do." That is true. So very, very true. I'll be in a store looking for something for like 5 minutes and then I'll turn around and he's standing there, looking all suave and debonaire, holding the exact thing I'm looking for. I don't know how he does it.

My friend Sandra left a comment the other day on one of my previous posts that she couldn't believe 4 years has gone by and that it only seemed like yesterday she was in the room with me and a bunch of our friends. This is for you, Sandra. (That's her, in the green sweater, with Melissa. And I love the expression captured on Melissa's face!)

I was blessed to have so many of my friends come from all over the place to see me get married. Here's to the best friends a girl could ever have (and Phil is still trying to tell all of you apart from each other!)


*Seriously, I wish all of you could've been wearing those pretty blue spaghetti strap dresses that I didn't pick out :)



Then there's these two - the cutest pillow-flopping ring bearer and sleeping flower girl ever! I get such a kick out of them when I watch the video. You know, all the stuff they do that you miss out on when you're gazing lovingly into your groom's eyes! They've grown so much in 4 years. Darick's going into 4th grade next year and Hannah will be going to kindergarten.

So many things I love about that day: finally becoming a Mrs., knowing that everyone was thee to celebrate us, all the beautiful hydrangeas, walking down the aisle with my dad on the aisle runner Kerry hand-painted, the music, my dress, the big long juicy kiss that startled the pastor, the tulle and white lights, the cake, the "This wedding brought to you by Christian Matchmaker" on the big screen as we were walking out, driving to the Savannah drive-through to get something to drink after the cake reception, telling the people working there that yes, we really did just get married, & coming back to the church to find out my car had a flat tire, dancing with Phil and then being totally surprised about dancing with my dad and crying my eyes out the entire time. The list could go on and on!



Happy anniversary, Babe! I love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very lots :) Thanks for being such a wonderful husband, my knight, my own personal Dr. Phil, the guy who spoils me, my spider-squisher, and my best friend.

(And now we're heading to the coast to celebrate 4 years together but first we're stopping at the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate my 35 years of life!) Yes, I'm turning 35 on Friday, the 13th. Oh my word. That's half-way to 40.