From the day I demanded to be introduced to him at that stake dance 11 1/2 years ago, I had a crush on him. I thought he was way too good for me. (With one exception), The only guys who showed any interest in me were the ones with nefarious intentions :P Then, 5 years later, we found out that we both liked each other! We settled things quickly enough :)
In 6 years of marriage, we have moved 4 times (and that is counting the first move into our first apartment). We've borne, birthed, and brought up 2 delightful children. We've laughed, screamed, pouted, giggled, tickled, vegetated, cuddled, and worked side by side. We've grown together, which we all know isn't the most fun thing in the world, but worthwhile. And by the blessing of heaven, as we've grown, we've loved each other more.
I don't know about Tim, but I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I wish I could convey in words what this last 6 years have done for me, but it is simply impossible. Heavenly Father gave me a life I did not come close to deserving, and I will be forever grateful.
To celebrate, we went to Rubio's, then drove over the "hills" to Montara beach, then came back and ate cake and ice cream and ordered gigantic New York pizzas. I kinda had the idea that our kids should enjoy our anniversary as much as we do, since it was our marriage that brought them into this world :D I think they had fun; I know we did!
We had a blast at the beach. We played with the sand, watched the waves beat on the sand, watched surfers, got our feet wet (but no more than our feet, b/c the riptides there are so strong and the beach slopes so sharply that people have literally been swept away and drowned when they got deep enough to be wading in the water...), hiked and climbed, chased and tickled and played freeze tag, joined a game of kickball, and took lots of pictures!
We came home and ate chocolate cake with chocolate ice cream, from the awesomest grocery store in the world, Trader Joe's. (We figured, birthdays are anniversaries of birth, why not do cake and ice cream on anniversaries of marriage?) We ordered the biggest pizzas we'd ever seen from New York Pizza. Those things are 2 feet across! We watched Anastasia on Netflix. And now it's the end of the day. I'm working on uploading the pics to Picasa to share with everyone :D
BUT! Lily was very cute yesterday and I took pics :D so here is one of those! (It was a strange day, Jack napped while Lily was wired and hyper and happy!)
"I'm not sleepy, Mom!"
I'll put up the link to the Picasa album when that is done :)
Her hair is super cute in that photo! :)
ReplyDeleteOh I'm so glad you noticed, I spent hours styling it just so!
ReplyDeleteShe does like it when I put things in her hair, so that she can take them right back out! Trying to actually do something to her hair as a style to go out with, is impossible :P