Five Long & Wonderful Years

On Friday, my husband and I will celebrate our five year wedding anniversary. Not a huge milestone to many but to us it is a milestone indeed.

Because you see, it has not by any means been an easy five years. In the past five years we have gone through three job losses, my grandmother’s death, my parents moving three hours away, my brother’s move seven hours away, a pregnancy, two college graduation’s (his Bachelors and my Associates in the same year) and lots more little things that I am probably forgetting. And most of the above happened within the first two years of our marriage.

So in honor of our five-year milestone (and nine years together total this fall) I am dedicating this post to my husband who I love so much and that I am so glad is holding my hand through all of these ups and downs or else I would be heavily sedated.

I love that it seems like we have known each other for forever. And that you knew me and liked me when I had big hair and shoe boots.

I love that we have had so much fun with each other as friends before we even started dating.

When we reconnected years later, I was going through a divorce and had a sweet two-year-old daughter. Things were really crazy back then, I was going to school full time, working part-time and raising a child. You were working and living the bachelor lifestyle when we came into your life.

I loved watching the relationship between you and Annie grow.
I know it must have been really hard to go from being single one day to hanging out with a toddler the next.
Yet you did and while there were bumps along the way, she fell in love with you right alongside me.

I love the little fun memories we share together.
Remember the flight home from Hilton Head and how “Jessica Simpson” vomited all over the airport floor?
While we were waiting in line to get french fries.

I loved the little family we were starting to become.

I love how everyone who describes our relationship uses fun as the first adjective.

I love how excited we were to make it “official”, how to this day Annie still calls it “our wedding” and how you have never called her anything other than “daughter”.

I love how you have been there for the big things in Annie’s life.

I love you despite being a big Michigan fan. Go Buckeyes.

I loved watching you get to be a daddy all over again but this time you started at the very beginning.

I love how our family is now complete.