feeling: really good!
listening to: Matt Maher radio on Jango. listening for some new Christian Rock bands to introduce to my high schoolers this year!
today is my ANNIVERSARY!!! today Matthew and i have been married for 7 years! SEVEN! oh my goodness i feel so old! 7 doesnt seem like that long, especially since i can still remember our wedding day very well! but we were together for 6 years before that, that makes us an old old married couple! haha!
we've been through so much in the last 7 years and as i look back on it sometimes it just didnt seem like we'd make it through. there were times when we both were trying to decide how we'd support ourselves when we were alone. but we powered through and here we are. another year down and we are happier than ever! i told him a long time ago that i knew he was the one i wanted to raise our children with and hes the one i wanted to be sitting with when we were old and gray. he still is! even when i'm mad at him or he's griping at me for something, at the end of the day he's the one i want!
i consider myself very lucky to have found the guy i want forever when i was so young. we started dating when we were Sophmores in HS. we were just kids. i hardly i knew him, except through mutual friends. but we started dating and found out we actually had a few things in common. we always joke that we have NOTHING in common-and thats actually closer to the truth. we hardly like any of the same things. and i honestly dont know how we even started a conversation! but God knew we were meant for each other and He helped us out a little i think.
we dated through the rest of high school. he gave me a promise ring a little more than a year after we started dating. he promised not to marry me, but to always love me no matter what.
he joined the Navy after high school. i was supportive even though i didnt want to be..... he was in Chicago for boot camp. he always looked super hot in his whites. (salior uniform). he went to Gulfport, Mississippi for A-School. i got to go visit him a couple times there. then he went to Spaine for more training....and drinking! and then it was 9/11. i think i was in a daze for a week becuase of everything and then i cried for 3 days because he told me he'd have to go overseas. this was in 2002 and he promised me he would be back and we'd get married. we set a wedding date, August 22, 2003. i'm sure i told him he had to be back or i was marrying someone else on that day! he was overseas for the longest 3 months of my life. i think God was truly looking over us because Matt somehow caught a break and got an early flight home, he was one of the only ones who got to. he was home finally! that was early in the year. i told him he was out. he had to get out because i couldn't do that stupid military thing anymore! (to you military wives i give you a huge thumbs up! i was lucky becuase Matt wasn't in too long, but i couldn't have handled it any longer!)
we were married on Friday, August 22, 2003. the entire week before that was stupid hot and humid. the schools were closed because it was so hot. and then Friday came and the weather was PERFECT! i'm talking low 80's, a nice breeze and sunny! it was the first day school was back in session and my brothers didn't have to go!
me and my girls were up early at the salon getting beautiful! then we went to Treasured Portraits for my family pictures and pictures with my girls. Matt and his guys-well, to this day i still dont ask too much of what they did before pictures, because i've heard different stories and not many of them are great! haha!
we finally saw each other at the church after almost 2 hours of being ready. i was pacing i was so nervous. but after we saw each other it all melted away.
our ceremony was short and sweet, just how we wanted it. all our friends and family were there with us and it was wonderful! we walked out to people blowing bubbles and those are some of my favorite pictures of the day!
then we took a few more pictures then headed off to the reception! we danced, ate, danced some more, talked with everyone and just had a great time! our first dance song was Alison Krauss, "When You Say Nothing At All"
i have no idea if something went wrong, or if something wasnt there. to me everything turned out perfectly! looking back there are just a couple things i would have changed, but nothing major and nothing i regret. well, okay, one thing. i really really wanted candles in the front of the church, like tons and tons of candles! i got talked out of it because it was August and hot. now i know i could have gotten the battery powered ones.. and that'd been sweet!!
when i look back it couldn't have gone better. i was happy, i married the man i loved and we are now into living happily ever after!
to celebrate last night we went to eat at Centro and it was AMAZING! i seriously haven't had that good of a meal for ages! and to end it with a perfect homemade cheesecake was to die for! we could have both just laid down in our booth and slept happily the rest of the night! we then we to Lowe's. my present to Matt was to go tool shopping with him. hes like a kid in a toy store. he got a bunch of new stuff that he SAID he needed.......i'm not so sure! :) then we went over to see Ben and his new apartment. we hung out with him and his friends for a little while. i know it doesn't sound like a great anniversary celebration, but we had a good time!
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