Happy 7th Anniversary!

 


Today Bill and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary! It seems like way longer than that though. LOL. I'm not sure why. I guess because it feels like we've always been together. We treated ourselves to a date afternoon/evening. I have really been itching to see the Our Bodies: The Universe Within exhibit ever since I noticed it advertised in Orlando. I never got a chance to go. Well, I found out that it was at the University of Texas I asked Bill if we could go. I'm not sure he was as enthusiastic as I was, but he did agree that it was really cool. The price tag is a little steep, but it was spectacular. It really was such an awe inspiring experience. It totally illustrated to us how magnificient God's plan for a human body to work is just amazing. Seriously, our bodies are marvelous machines. And the exhibit while graphic in some regards (ie a man was holding his own skin) and even a little emotional in others (ie the babies that died before they had a chance to live here on Earth), it truly was an amazing experience!

 
 
 
 
(photos are not allowed. i found these on the internet and they are of the displays that we saw.)

After leaving the university, we headed to Round Rock to the French Bistro/Cafe, La Madeleine. We each enjoyed a sandwich and pasta salad and sampled a couple of their little pastries before heading over to the Cinemark to catch Iron Man 2. We knew that was the movie that we had to choose since we saw Iron Man on our last anniversary date when we celebrated our 5th anniversary. We both agreed that it was good, but that the first one had a better story line. We laughed and marked our mental calendars for our 9th anniversary date to see Iron Man 3. LOL.


 
 

After the movies, we headed home. Bill did me a favor and put together our wagon that we've had for nearly years and that I need tomorrow while I went out and fetched our traditional anniversary treat carrot cake. We really loved the ones from Publix that we have had before, but this one from Walmart wasn't too bad of a substitute.
 

My gift is doing double duty. It's a 22 carat gold bangle from Bahrain. It's beautiful! Bill said it's for Mother's Day and our anniversary!

 
 

OH MY! I am SOOOO SPOILED!!

Total shock!!! My husband spoiled me so much! Thank goodness Stephanie came over and found this on my porch or I would have never known it was there. I guess it couldn't have been received on a better day since today IS my anniversary and today IS Mother's Day!

Thank you, Bill! You spoil me too much!

2 Reasons To Celebrate, One Blessed Day!

Two reasons, you say? You probably figure that I am blogging about being the mother to 2 amazing boys and that they are my 2 reasons to celebrate. Well they are only 1/2 of the 2. The other is my wonderful husband! Today marks our 6th wedding anniversary. As I would have had it, we wouldn't have been married on May 10th. But as it turned out, wait I mean as the Army would have it, we were unable to keep the July 12th date as we originally planned because of an impending deployment. So when we scrambled to find a date, the only one available was Mother's Day weekend because no else wanted to marry the same weekend that honors mothers. As it works out, it's nearly perfect! How do families begin? With mothers and fathers who get married and promise to love, honor and cherish each other all the days of their lives. Their promises before God to live as one and to be fruitful and multiply are how I actually now have the honor to celebrate Mother's Day as well.

So six years ago today, I was a blushing bride. It was a glorious day of tornadoes and thunder storms, wedding vows, family and friends, and the promise of a wonderful future together. I got married in the church with my 3 best friends standing beside me and my husband in front of me. Everyone who was important to me was there in spite of the weather and when the ceremony was over, the sun came out so full and radiant that there was a rainbow! You see promises were everywhere!




The past few years have passed in a blink. My husband deployed in July of that year and was gone for a year on a deployment. When he returned, we moved to South Carolina, had a son and watched with wonder as we learned to be parents.

(Ian Curtis 11/06/05)



Another PCS to us to Florida where we were blessed with another son and here I am today in Texas surrounded by 2 wonderful little boys that I am entrusted to raise to know God and to become good men like their father. Each day I look into the eyes of my children and now know a little more about how my mother felt about my brother and me.

(Aaron William 7/14/08)



Being a wife and mother has only changed me for the better. I celebrate today with my husband who is across the sea working to help keep everyone in this country free. I celebrate with my children the honor of being their mother. But mostly I thank God for giving these wonderful people to enrich my life. I am truly blessed beyond measure.

Happy Anniversary, Bill! I love you so very much. Thank you for everything that you have provided me and the boys with over the past years. Thank you for being my constant friend and confidant. Thank you for being my husband and for being such a great father to my children. Without you, I wouldn't get to celebrate this wonderful day as your wife or as a mother to our boys! I miss you, but I know that you are thinking of us in the same way that we are thinking of you. Be safe!


(Mother's Day 2009)