6 Great years!

Tomorrow is our 6th Anniversary

(on the right, our first date: November 2001)

It's been a great six years filled with lots of adventure. I couldn't ask for a better companion to share my life with. Sometimes I hear people talk negatively of marriage. For many reasons I'm sure. (on the right, taken a few weeks ago, 2008) Some of my single friends feel they will somehow loose themselves if they get married, they will not longer be able to fulfill their dreams and have that independence. For some, the negativity comes from years of being married and many things gone wrong, I don't actually know why. But I have to defend marriage as the best thing that has ever happened to me. It was the commitment from this amazing man that allowed me to be more free, it allowed me to be myself and it allowed me to follow my dreams and to fell complete. I've searched my whole life for someone to love me just as I am. I know that is what led me to Jesus. But so many times I had prayed, "Jesus, I know you love me, but can't you just come down here in the physical form and wrap your arms around me, help me through this life in person?" Well, God knew I needed someone physically in my life to love me for exactly who I am, in the raw, and he gave that to me in Josh. Now I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not just to get a date. Now I don't have to starve myself to achieve to look like someone else, because my hubby loves all of me, even some of the chubby parts. But that's just it, let go of the pressure to be perfect, and I soar. I strive to be better, because those constraints are not on me. Now I wanna look good for him, I want to be an amazing person because he is so amazing to me. And our dreams? Oh, how we dream together. I help him pursue his dreams and passions, he pushes me to pursue mine. In fact, I wouldn't be able to accomplish my goals and dreams if it were not for Josh. And independence? Got it too. We are not chained to the home or even to our child. We travel, we discover, we explore, we save up and buy toys, just the same as those who don't have "strings attached." This is how it was meant to be. Marriage was never intended to burden but to bless. And I've experienced nothing less! Thank you Josh for giving me all that you are for six years and to the rest ahead of us, I say bring on all the future adventures. I love you Josh!