# 6

How long have we been married you ask?

Well, let me tell you...6 years of wedded bliss (and everything else in between), that's how many.

In 6 years, I clearly haven't figured out how to kick that smile where I clinch my teeth so you can see all of my gums and my extra chin, but hey, I am still smiling, so I consider it a win.

In six years we have moved and changed and fought and cried and been more than irretated and scared and confused and so happy and so excited and so thrilled. We have covered the full spectrum...

In six years we have left behind the "butterflies" phase, we have left behind college days, and all the "firsts" that come with dating, we have left behind the newly wed days and the lazy days of just us. We traded them in for days of working really hard for our goals and dreams together, days where we get each other through stuff no one else even knows we are struggling with, days where we don't know if we'll make it but we do and the way we smile at each other gets deeper and bigger, days that are full of them...

We've done a lot of life in the last 6 (plus) years. But the best part about them is that we are still an US in every sense of the word. We have good, we have bad, we have ugly. But we love each other. We laugh, a lot. We love each other in spite of....you know, all that "spite of" stuff. We still hold hands when our arms aren't full of little boys. We even still flash our secret love sign (ha ha ha) when it's the only way to communicate it and sometimes just because it makes us laugh(this is an advantage to marrying someone you were a "kid" with, you have secret love symbols and when you use them, it takes ya right back).

We feel blessed and thankful for the Lord's protection over our marriage.

And in the words of the great Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros,

"Home is whenever I'm with you"

and we really feel that way...and now you have your daily serving of cheese! You're welcome!

Thanks God for this:)! LOVE him, LOVE our sweet kiddos, LOVE that it's all because of you and your plans!