5 years!

Today is mine and Eric's 5 year anniversary! 5 YEARS! Wow! It's amazing how time flies but at the same time it feels like much longer than 5 years...in a good way! In my opinion Eric and I have a very interesting story...here's the Reader's Digest Version. We both were suppose to live different places but instead ended up in apartments 50 feet from each other. Eric was in his final year at BYU and on the list of things he was focussing on girls were last. I had just gotten out of a relationship so dating was something I desperately wanted to stay away from. Eric was not at all the type of guy I normally even dated (which should have been my first clue that I was making the right decision!). Logically everything told me to stay away from getting into a relationship but as most of you know logic plays no part in love. Eric knew right away we would get married, however, it took me a little longer to figure it out. And when I say a "little" I mean it because from the time we started dating to the time we were engaged was only 3 1/2 months and only another 3 1/2 months before we were married. To some I'm sure that is extremely fast, and looking back I'd have to agree, but it's what worked for us. Recently, Eric gave some advice to his sister that just got engaged. He told her to think about real things like, who would do the laundry and the dishes? She laughed but it's so true! I consider myself very lucky because our whirl-wind relationship didn't leave a lot of time to seriously talk about life and what we expected out of the basics! I knew Eric was a good man raised in a good family but I didn't realize how lucky I got. We never discussed our philosophy in raising children and it's interesting how similarly we agree on most things. Eric is a better father than I had ever imagined or wished for and it's obvious in how much our kids love him and want to be with him! Eric understands me so well it's almost scary at times. He puts up with my craziness and moods and never complains...well hardly ever! Considering we have very few common interests it's quite amazing how well we get along and how good our marriage works. Not to say that we don't have our moments. I hate those couples that talk about marriage like it's some kind of heaven on earth that is always perfect. They are either lying or in complete delusion. Marriage is not perfect but I love to be married and I love who I'm married to. I feel very blessed to have such a wonderful man in my life that I know will always take care of me and our family! So long story short...3 moves, a dozen or so jobs, 2 beautiful children, and 5 years later here we are! 

Here are a few of our engagement pictures. Man we look so young! (I blame the kids for aging us!)