4 years

Today is a wonderful day.

Today marks four years with my wonderful husband.

I looked at the post from our two year anniversary and our third, and realized just how far we have come.

I will say it again and again, but I am so blessed and honored to have Jason as my husband.

We met almost six years ago by chance some would say, or by a divine appointment by God as I say.
As Jason says I harassed him into hanging out with me (calling multiple times, calling his parents to see where he was!)
That's exactly what we started doing, we started hanging out, going to Denny's, sitting there for hours drinking coffee and just talking.
Sometime in there we became more than friends.
And then Jason told me he was joining a band and moving to Indiana.
I told him it was over, there was no way I was doing a long distance relationship.
Then, I had a bad day, the kind of day when only one person would make it alright, and so I called and told him I needed him.
I didn't want to to live my life without him.
He still went to Indiana.
I still needed him.
We make a lot of road trips back and forth until he finally moved back.
He proposed, (finally!)
We made plans for our future.
We were married on January 22, 2005.
The night before it snowed over 12 inches.
I can remember driving to our apartment where all our friends were staying to bring them a shovel to dig themselves out, and almost getting stuck in the road.
The mall parking lot wasn't plowed when I went with my mom to get my hair done.
Some of our friends had been plowing for 12 hours straight, and still came to the wedding.
Some of our friends drove from different states on that day.
That day was beautiful.
It was as if God had painted everything white and sparkling for our day.
The day that Jason and I became one.
We said the vows, we signed the certificate, and we kissed, but that's not enough to make a marriage.
We worked at it.
We learned about each other.
We fought, we cried, we laughed, and most important we learned just how important it is to love and respect each other.

I could not have predicted the future, but I do know that by looking at the past, I can see how far I've come, and possibly how drastically different my life would be without Jason in it.

Thank you for four amazing years. Thank you for being on this journey with me. We can only grow from here.