Here's to another year

photos by Tara Whitney

Well here we are again.....past due for a mushy love post from me about my lover. I'm not quite sure how it happens but I always seem to wait to write about my thoughts on being married and celebrating our anniversary until way after the fact. In my defense our anniversary is like a week before Christmas (thank you school breaks), and it get's a little crazy around here.

Non the less, Steve and I celebrated our 8 year anniversary back in December.

What do I have to say about that? I almost feel at a loss for words when I think of my relationship with Steve. I could get all super cheesy and say how he completes me, I could get all serious and say he is the best decision I have ever made for myself...the list is endless. What it all comes down to is the fact that my relationship with Steve is perfectly imperfect.

Steve told me once that we really lucked out. I mean how much do you really know about a person that you are going to spend the rest of your life with? I felt comfortable with all the major stuff about Steve....he was super attractive, he had a killer testimony, he was kind, he opened my door for me (still does), he loved his family and had a great relationship with all of them, he was a hard worker, he had goals and ambitions, you know..all the good stuff. What I didn't know in the slightest was how it would be to live with Steve. Would he snore? Leave the seat up? Do his own laundry? Who would make dinner? Who would handle all the money? What kind of crazy quirks would he have? Steve always says that we really lucked out because neither of us are too crazy with any of this stuff. As much as I like to think we lucked out as well.....I think it's more than luck. I think I knew in my heart that Steve would make me the best possible version of myself I could ever imagine to become! It's not hard to over look the little things when we are on the same page about all the major things in our lives. We both have the attitude that we are in this for the long run (for ever and ever and eternity...that's a long time!).

So while Steve doesn't always remember to take out the trash, or put the seat down, he always has a way of making me feel like I am the most special person in the world (unless he is watching a Jazz game! the zoning out gets pretty bad *wink*)! Life's not perfect, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I love Steve SO much more today than I did when I said yes over 8 years ago.

"You know you are in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."- Dr Seuss

Here's to the old ball and chain for another great year...I love you Steve!

Celebrate!

I'm kind of embarrassed to say it but Steve and I celebrated our 7th anniversary back in December. I have been meaning to post about it for a while now but I couldn't find "the perfect" picture of us together. I still don't think I have the perfect picture but think it's far over due to post about celebrating our anniversary....because we just did!

I guess that is what happens when you decide to get married during winter break from school about a week before Christmas....things get CRAZY that time of year and it makes it harder to celebrate how it should be celebrated. I know that my sister Britney is gasping now because she is all about celebrating things on the day that they happened (something I love about her!).

Don't get me wrong we know how to celebrate around here but decided to play it a bit more low key this year with everything going on and opted to go skiing. We did go to dinner and a movie the weekend of our anniversary, and I will say that has defiantly struck a cord to get out and go on more dates (which we've done a lot since then). I can't remember a time before we had Katy that we went on a date, just the two of us. I guess we just really enjoy Katy's company, because she is a blast. But I am grateful for that date in reminding me that we need to make the time to get out and do some more of that as a couple.

Well like I said, we celebrated 7 years in December and we went skiing last Friday! Ha....better late than never. And I will say that it added to my birthday weekend celebration (more on that later). But about the skiing.....Steve is not too shabby on those skis I tell ya. He pretty much had a season pass for as long as he could remember, until we got married! I guess, in a way, skiing to celebrate was an homage to his old skiing days, because they are long gone!!!! We laugh because when we were going to school at the U we didn't really have time to go skiing because we were in school. And now that we are graduated we cant go because we don't get those killer school deals and cant afford it! But Steve was in heaven, he was lovin' it!

About my skiing. I had a season pass from 9-12th grade because I worked up at snowbird. Did I use it? Not once. LAME!!! No one I knew went skiing and I obviously had no idea what I was doing so I never went. I know people that travel here every year to partake in the greatest snow on earth are cursing me now! I went one time in high school. Other than that Steve has been my only ski instructor. I haven't been a million times either so I am not a pro by any means. I can get down the hill relatively unscathed, although there were some 6 year olds that were making me look bad! Another thing that is note worthy are my skis. I guess I need to take a picture of them and post it because you will probably have a good laugh too, but they were the TOPIC of conversation while we were on the lifts. You know the old pointy ones? Those are mine! One of the ski instructors said, "Ma'am, I had a pair of those skis when they first came out...that brings me back." First, I consider these skis "vintage"....isn't that all the rage now? And second it must have been my birthday weekend to be called ma'am....I guess I am old now? I felt that way a bit, thanks a lot! I'm pretty sure we made a trade with Jon and Michelle for them back in the day. They work. They get me down the hill. They are "vintage". What's not to like?

Mom was off work on Friday so she watched Katy for us, and we SO appreciate it!

Seven years? It doesn't really feel like it's been that long to be honest.

I met Steve through a mutual friend in February of 2003, before I went to Hawaii for school for the summer. I feel in love with Steve when I was gone. (In fact, I wanted to shout it from the escalator as I was going to claim my baggage at the airport, but totally wussed out!) It was kind of a unique way to get to really know someone, through phone calls and emails. I'd say that ever since that day I knew I loved Steve, my life has only gotten better. I am still as much in love with Steve today as the day I said yes. Getting married has been the most rip roaring, fly by the seat of your pants, rootin' tootin' good time I could have imagined it would be. I appreciate the person I have become being a wife, and more so the mother I've become.

Hopefully the lack of a season pass has been worth it for Steve too, because I'd trade one for him any day of the week! Here's to our 8th year....let's see where it takes us! And for crying out loud let's go skiing for our anniversary this year, in DECEMBER!