has a way of passing by rather quickly. My sweet Hannah turned four on Friday. FOUR. I realize that seems kind of young, but she was just my little baby using gurgling sounds to talk to me at four months and she was just saying dinder for dinner and musiket for music...I miss them both . Could be the age, but she is so much fun and such a challenge, but more fun than challenge. I love her love of music. We were in the grocery store and Hannah goes I know this song and neither Laura nor I even knew there was music playing, you could barely hear it..I love that. She will try to sing a song even if she doesn't know it. She has sung in her sleep. She's happy go lucky, sometimes, you can offend and she'll just shrug it off. She give the best loves and I think that's what I'm going to miss the most, Cole and Laura are kind of there, not much snuggle time. Hannah will just let me kiss all over her sweet face and that's coming to an end.
Time to have another one? And in comes timing...we have terrible delivery times of our children..more on that below Hannah's bday pics!
Our kids were not surprises and we're apparently poor or just plain non planners...
in all fairness they were all late so the scheduling should not have been so bad but here goes...
Cole's bday is the day after Christmas, nuf said, he's so sweet to embrace it though.
Laura's is the weekend of General Conference and three days before mine. She may never have a party the weekend of her bday..well we've had it on Friday night before, but still this year her bady was on a Sunday..a Gen Conf bday :). And as she gets older that's going to be a real winner.
Hannah's is the day before our anniversary, so there will always be juggling of celebrating those two. This year Mom came to Hannah's party and then took the kids for us to celebrate ever so romatically by repainting our kitchen cabinets..doesn't get much better than that, eh. We worked, but we laughed and had fun too. It was a great anniversary.
It's what twelve years does to you. And this man I married, I'm sure I've said it before, but I really did not fully understand the treasure of a person I was getting. I am awed continually.
Exhibit A. Picture below.
He's obviously receiving loves from Hannah, but you can barely see the spiked up hairdo Laura had just spent 30 minutes perfecting and mid left you'll see a black game card. He's playing a game with Cole and I that he's not really enjoying (I didn't find out until after the fact).
So in honor of being married to such a great man for 12 years I thought I'd give 12 great thoughts/memories.....
1. I'll never forget the way he looked at me during our sealing, not dreamy, but the happiest I have possibly ever seen him.
2. Our first or second Christmas being married, on a Friday, he came to my work to take me to lunch. We stopped by our house which was close by then he said we needed to go get my Christmas present. I was so surprised, so we get on the interstate and we drive past the T'ville exit and I think we're going to Madison to pick up some piece of furniture. Nope it turns out he arranged for me to get off of work, had my sisters pack my bag and had a hotel in St. Simon's Island, GA. We had the best time.
3. The next year I surprised him by getting on the interstate and he thought we were going to Orlando and we were but to fly to Idaho for Christmas...so much fun planning surprises!
4. Sunday afternoon naps in our little living room, watching him sleep in the recliner (cause he always sleeps longer than I do) and really appreciating our life together.
6. I remember telling him we were expecting Cole. He was thoroughly shocked because it happened very quickly. And then telling our parents with Easter baskets.
7. I remember how after I had Cole I had serious post delivery problems and he took care of me in every way possible. It became a little unhealthy as I remember wanting only him to help me in the recovery process even though other people were available, but he was better than any nurse I could of asked for.
8. His love for our children and their love for him amaze me every time. From watching him sing Song Sung Blue to Cole as a baby, calling Laura little one so affectionately, tummy kissing Hannah, to watching the complete devotion they have to him because of who he is.
9. Getting through the tough times. It's possible we had more than others, cause I'm kind of complicated, but I remember being mad at him because he wouldn't argue with me and I realized somewhere along the way how wise that was.
10. His sweet sweet eyes, they are what drew me to him the first time we had a conversation and I noticed how sweet they were again yesterday..you know how you go about life and don't notice everything all the time..
11. I remember telling my mom when we first started dating that one of the things I liked so much about him was his confidence. He is who he is. I of course have come to know he's not as confident as I thought he was, but I wasn't too off the mark. I love that he would never let me get away with something that he felt strongly against. Even though sometimes he lets me think he would.
12. Recently he went to Idaho for a weekend. I missed him being gone more than other times. I like to think it's because life is so good for us, our relationship has matured into a warm cozy blanket. We know each other so well (and he still likes me) and we don't agree all the time but that just makes it better. Twelve years has us in such a good place, looking forward to see what's next.
