Two Years Down, Forever to Go

Thats right - it's our anniversary. It seems odd to me that it's only been two years. We were together almost four years before getting married so even though it's two years of marriage we've been a couple for nearly six. Sometimes I feel like we are an old married couple already. We are so comfortable with each other, I don't think there are too many surprises left for us - from each other I mean, not from life. We can often finish each other's sentences, know just how to push the other's buttons and can easily make each other smile & laugh. We've had trials during our marriage and have both thought at times "what was I thinking" - most honest marriages have I'm sure - but we have stayed committed to each other, our marriage & our family. It feels like we are out of the 'newlywed' phase - having two kids quickened that some I'm sure - but we are still young in our marriage. We are still learning how to best communicate, compromise and care for each other. I think that as long as we continue to grow, learn and be willing to change we'll be just fine. My hubby is so great about making sure I know that he loves me. He tells me about 324,948 times a day I think, but not just with his words. He works hard everyday to provide for me {and our kids}, when he notices that I'm having a hard day he pitches in with dinner or the kids, he comforts me, he listens to me & he talks to me. I love it when he is in a playful mood - he is so much fun. I am so proud of him and how far we've come. Our marriage is not perfect and it's not sunshine & roses everyday but we've got a good thing. I wouldn't trade him for anything. I'm not sure what we're going to do to celebrate today. It's a three day weekend so he's got the day off. {We're not sure why, Armed Forces day maybe? There are a lot of extra holidays in the military so we don't question, just enjoy.} We have to mow, weed whack & trim the lawn - and by we of course I mean hubby. I have my usual household chores to do. I was thinking it would be fun to take the kids to the park since we haven't gone in a while & I'd like to go before it rains again - around here ya never know. Our challenge will be to get out of the house and away from the kids. We don't really know anyone out here that we can just leave the kids with. All of Shawn's friends are younger and don't have kids. Lydia goes to bed around 7 so we'd be free after that, if we had someone here to sit with Michael for an hour & make sure the house doesn't burn down. I really do want to get some time for just us and out of the house. Shawn will be gone for our next anniversary so if we don't celebrate this year we won't be able to until our 4th. I'm hoping something will work out. We still have a couple things we may be able to look into. Crossing my fingers! Yesterday we had a much more relaxing day than Saturday. I did a little cleaning but no big projects. I took advantage of both kids napping at the same time, I think I had a full two hours with both of them down, and scrapped. I didn't get much done because it took some time for me to find all my stuff. That is my next organization project. I need to put all of my photos, scrapping magazines & craft stuff in one spot. I did get some done though and am hoping to do some more today so I'll post photos this week. I've been working on my 'Bride to Be Photo Journal', it will have all of the events that took place before our wedding. I had already done the pages with photos of finding my wedding dress {finished journaling}, so I started with photos from my bridal shower. After that will be photos of the bridal tea my grandmother threw for me, our rehearsal & dinner and the night before the wedding. I haven't decided if I'll put the day of preparations in this album or the front of my wedding scrapbook. At the rate I'm going I've got plenty of time to figure it out. I haven't scrapped our wedding photos yet. I was very intimidated at the project so I've stuck to focusing on the family & kids' stuff. I recently used my Picaboo software to create a wedding album which has inspired me to start on wedding stuff. I've put some photos of our wedding in this post. You can view my complete wedding album by clicking here if you would like. We had a fun wedding day. I loved the location for the ceremony. I had looked for two weeks to find a place that we could have an outdoor ceremony, indoor reception, was in budget & available for my day. Finally we found the perfect place. The reception room could have been a little nicer but it served its purpose. And as all married folk know {and unmarrieds need to know especially if you are planning a wedding} there's always something that doesn't go quite right at a wedding. Some are worse than others, but it's always something. We had a couple things. First I was late in starting to get ready because I had to make a trip to the store for our communion bread, juice & a few other last minute items. Second, my veil came loose from my tiarra & had to be re-sewn. Due to delays me & my bridesmaids had to wait until after the ceremony for our formal shots. And here's the big one - my wedding cake fell apart. Twenty minutes before the ceremony it fell over. My stepmom dashed over to Albertson's & talked the baker into letting us borrow a fake display cake & bought a small cake that we could cut. Our original cake was still edible, just not pretty enough to display so everyone still had cake. I was confused & surprised when I saw the new cake but relieved when I found out the whole story. The only bummer about it was there weren't any photos taken of the fallen cake. There may be video footage - I still haven't seen my wedding on video. It's a long story but I'm hoping to have it by next month. At the end of the day we were married and that's all that matters. I'd love to renew our vows one of these years, maybe on our 5th, 7th or 10th anniversary. It would be fun to do again but smaller this time. Thanks for visiting. I probably won't be on a lot today. But I will be posting daily this week I'm sure. See you next time!