What a wonderful five years!
Today is Josh and my fifth wedding anniversary. It is so wonderful to spend today reminiscing about our wedding day. What a wonderful, magical, amazing day full of fun and celebration! There was a sense of newness, a sense of my life really starting. Isn’t that funny? I’d already lived a lot of life and a WONDERFUL life to boot. But this just felt like a new beginning because in a way I was becoming something and someone else. I was taking on a new last name. I was taking on the title of ‘wife’. I was living in my own household with our family of three (Josh, me, and Shadow). I remember my Mom telling me that my new house will feel like home before I know it and she was right! Their house is and will always be my home still too, but this house and life and little family of my own (now our precious Lillian makes us a family of four!) is such a wonderful new home of my own. A wonderful life. It is so amazing to think back to that wonderful, beautiful day five years ago and realize that we couldn’t have dreamed we’d be blessed with such a gorgeous and perfect daughter who we welcomed into our lives with such anticipation and joy! What a wonderful first five years of marriage we’ve had!
Having the man of your dreams become your husband and life partner is such an incredible feeling. What an exciting moment in my life! And now that I’m not only his wife but the mother of his child makes me the happiest and most fulfilled woman in the world! Starting this journey of our new life together is such a blissful time!
Today as I write this it is pouring rain and that makes us want to stay in and celebrate here today. We don’t want to expose Lillian to cold weather and rain unnecessarily. We were planning to do our yearly dinner out (usually at the Hotel Del Coronado) and to do our buying of the annual Christmas ornament. People at Hotel Del Coronado (waitresses, shopkeepers, etc.) have told us for years – since our Honeymoon to be exact 😉 – that they can’t WAIT to see our babies. Last year they knew I had one in the making and told us they couldn’t wait to see the little one! We sure can’t wait to show Lillian off! But our yearly shopping and dining there (we will get to use a gift card sent to us by Josh’s mom!) can most certainly wait until the weather is more cooperative. For now we will broil some steaks, maybe light a fire, watch our tear-inducing wedding videos, and indulge in these mouth-watering treats my parents sent us!
Hopefully this year’s picture will be coming soon, but for now here is a look back at the last five years!
Lillian was just a tiny growing baby on our last anniversary! Here is a post and some more pictures from our 4th anniversary. I was not mentioning that I was pregnant yet because I was too paranoid to announce it publicly until the second trimester! As you can see I wasn’t writing much at the time. That post brings back all the nausea I was experiencing and thinking and hoping it would end in my second trimester. It never did end until I gave birth to the placenta, but boy is Lillian worth every second of nausea I endured!
Happy fifth Anniversary Sweetie! And we will have many more to come!