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Happy Anniversary To Us! :)

Josh and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary last Thursday, on the 22nd. It's been a wonderful couple of years, that's for sure! Here's the breakdown...

Year One, May 2004-May 2005: The year of firsts-- first apartment: a TINY one bedroom, so little the dining room was a wide spot in the hall and there was A closet for storage. First pet: Tess... who became Truman on her (his) second visit to the vet! And the not so fun firsts that come with learning to be a husband and a wife: first screaming fights, and slamming doors! First year of youth ministry... more fights, and lots of growing! Our first anniversary, spent in the same suite as our wedding night.


Year Two, May 2005-May 2006: A second house: this time a duplex with a real yard. We had a great time painting and decorating our new house. A second pet: Isabelle, who has certainly made life interesting. Lots of trips to SDC, we got in the swing of things for youth ministry, not so many fights! :) A really fun Spring Break trip to Jacksonville to visit Jess and Mike. A scary decision to start trying for a baby in the fall.



Year Three, May 2006-May 2007: Started this blog... and am using it to keep track of the memories now! Truman caught a mouse and let it go in our bed, one of the great stories of our marriage! My last summer of softball. More fun trips to SDC, and a Cardinals game in the new stadium. The worst float trip ever (think flat tire, getting lost, being late, setting up tents in the dark... the list goes on)! Josh made the decision that he was being called into full time ministry, and started taking classes at SBTS. A fun trip to KC for Josh's birthday- a concert, a spontaneous night at a hotel, and going to IHOP at midnight... pretending we were in college again! Our last spontaneous trip because we had already found out we were pregnant in January... found out it was a girl the week before our anniversary... bought a house in May.



Year Four, May 2007-May 2008: Moved into our new house, Isabelle went to doggie jail (told you she made life very interesting). Experienced the joys of full term pregnancy together (midnight leg cramps, gestational diabetes, waddling). Josh went on his first youth trips without me. HAD A BABY in September. Life hasn't been the same since! The last half of this year of our marriage, we have been learning some all new things-- like how to be a mommy and a daddy at the same time as we are a husband and a wife. I have fallen even more in love with my husband watching him become a daddy. He loves his little girl with all his heart.



All in all, it's been an amazing ride! I love the new(ish) country song "You're Gonna Miss This" because it is so true! The second verse even talks about a new bride in a tiny apartment, looking forward to owning a house and having kids. Her dad tells her that she will miss this little apartment, and that's so true. There are many times I think of that first carefree year, when the biggest responsibility we had was a cat! Not that I would trade our life, but it certainly has changed!



To celebrate, we took an evening away from our sweet baby girl and had some husband and wife time! We went to see the new Indiana Jones movie (definitely worth seeing), went out to eat at Sophia's, and capped the night off with a trip to Encore. Encore is a restaurant that is a cafe by day, and turns into this high-class dessert bar at night. You can go and get these awesome desserts and wine (or coffee, which is what we chose!). I forgot my camera, so I don't have any pictures from that night, but I found pictures of what we got: a chocolate pyramid and an apple dumpling. They were pretty fantastic, but my favorite part was my caramel macchiato- it was superb!


The Apple Dumpling...

The Chocolate Pyramid...

The beautiful flowers my husband surprised me with. I absolutely LOVE daisies. It's so fun because I know that as soon as the daisies start showing up in the road ditch, it must be almost time for our anniversary, because we used "road ditch" daisies in our wedding, and were TOTALLY stressed out when they weren't blooming until literally THE WEEK OF the wedding!

It was a great evening celebrating the four years we have spent together. I still have trouble believing God blessed me with such an amazing husband to spend my life with. I wouldn't change a thing about him, and I can't wait to spend the rest of our lives together. Sometimes it feels like we've been married forever, and sometimes it feels like we just got married yesterday. I think that's a good thing... :)