1,825 Days and Couting...

Five years ago today is one to celebrate! My best friend became my husband. Isn’t it funny how once you are with “the one,” time seems to creep by. Engagement feels like an eternity away. You talk together about it all the time, make plans in your head, dream about the ring, etc. And then, before you know it, you have been married for five whole years! It seems so crazy to me!! Our wedding day is a big blur now. It seemed to be here and gone in a blink. All those months leading up to it I wished away, and then once the big day had finally arrived, I wished I could freeze time and stay in that spot in our life where we had pledged and promised our lives to one another. Life is funny like that…time doesn’t stand still. Days turn into months and months turn into years and before you know it that upbeat newlywed couple is now having trouble staying awake on the couch past 8:30! That would be us!! In our “newlywed days” our biggest concern was where we were going to go out to eat on Friday night and what piece of furniture we were going to add to our house next. Now our worries are focused around having enough money in Will’s college fund and making sure our DVR is set because goodness knows we don’t watch television in real time anymore! Our life together over the past five years has certainly been an adventure. There have been moments of pure joy and moments of near breaking point…but I am so thankful that John is in it with me. We are a team. We do it together. Isn’t it funny how the person you love the very most and who means the world to you can also be the person who can irritate you the most. I think parenting brings this out. There is not a lot of down time, so at times it feels like we are constantly on edge. But at the end of the day, every day, it is my best friend laying beside me…happy or irritated, there is no one else in this world I would want there.

Our first dance at our wedding was to “At Last.” Super overdone…I know, but I liked the song and it was truly how I felt! When Uncle Kracker’s latest song, Smile, came out, I told John that if we got a “do-over” and had another first dance, I would want it to be to this song!

You’re better than the best
I’m lucky just to linger in your light
Cooler than the flip side of my pillow, that’s right

Completely unaware
Nothing can compare to where you send me, lets me know that its okay
Yeah, it’s okay
And the moments where my good times start to fade…

You make me smile like the sun, fall out of bed
Sing like a bird, dizzy in my head
Spin like a record, crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a food, forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Oh, you make me smile

Even when you’re gone,
Somehow you come along just like a flower pokin’ through the sidewalk crack
And just like that
You steal away the rain, and just like that

You make me smile like the sun, fall out of bed
Sing like a bird, dizzy in my head
Spin like a record, crazy on a Sunday night
You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
Oh, you make me smile

Don’t know how I lived without you
‘Cause every time that I get around you
I see the best of me inside your eyes
You make me smile...

You make me dance like a fool, forget how to breathe
Shine like gold, buzz like a bee
Just the thought of you can drive me wild
You make me smile like the sun, fall out of bed
Sing like a bird, dizzy in my head
Spin like a record crazy on a Sunday night

Oh, you make me smile!

We are Charleston bound as soon as work is over today! It cannot come soon enough. We are leaving little man here with the grandparents and not coming home until Monday. Lots of people who have been have asked us what we are going to do, and suggested activities for us....my reply is always the same. Sleeping in and eating are on the agenda....anything else will just be an added bonus :)