#loveandmarriage

So, today marks one of those days you both cannot believe is happening and feel like you wait forever for...our anniversary!  Four years later, Tommy still says "I love you" every morning when he wakes up.  The day we got married was so perfect, and each day I am so thankful to everyone that made it happen.

To some, four years may seem like nothing.  I mean, when you have been married for 70 years, I can see how, in perspective, four years may seem small.  But some days, I feel like this four years took a hundred.  (some days?  our wedding feels like yesterday.)

You see, when we got married, both Tommy and I felt like maybe we wouldn't get married (his mother sure thought so...she still thanks me to this day for coming into his life).  We were both in our late twenties when we met, so not exactly "old"...but I think in some ways, the idea of marriage was not on our radar.

And so now, four years and four dogs later,

I remember yelling at Tommy to get out of the water at Pacific Beach so I could eat (oooh, I'm a cranky mama), turning around to yell again for him to hurry up, seeing him kneel in that water and knowing our lives were never going to be the same.  That ring sparkled like the day is long and I still, to this day, catch my breath thinking, "I'm married to the best man in the entire world!"

Add one sparkly, pretty anniversary band, selling a house, moving into a double-the-cost-half-the-size apartment on Oahu, transporting four dogs, a POD, and two cars over an ocean, and here we are today.  Turns out the move was not nearly the trial I thought it might be...we even laughed a few times while eating airport muffins the size of our heads at five in the morning waiting for our one way flight.  He's a good man, that Tommy.  I cannot wait to celebrate four hundred more.

xo