5 years ago...

After two years of friendship,we decided to take it to the next level.

I remember, we went on our first date five years ago today- we saw "Finding Nemo". You met me in the parking lot with a stuffed talking Nemo fish and a Nemo watch for my niece. Cute.

I also remember I was very soon to be on my way out--moving to Ithaca, NY. lol God knows that plan changed.

Here we are today, through all the ups and downs. It's been a very rough and rocky road. We've had our disagreements (I still say the woman was talking and NOT the bird!), but it hasn't been all bad.

When you came along, I had asked God to send me someone special, I thought he had got it all wrong (lol) but the more we grow together I can see what he was thinking when he brought us together. We can be like oil and vinegar because you are so stubborn and such a b.r.a.t. (inside joke) But in the end we compliment each other. We are good and we fit together.

He did good.

This songs for you, my love.




A funny thing bout luv we choose
It ain't perfect but we do the best we can
Do U understand
And I luv U more than words can say
Here's to knowin that you'll stay with me
Through the complications
Baby what I'm sayin
I don't wanna give up on our fate
And I don't wanna think that it's too late
So if something is broke
Let me go and fix it
And if something is lost
Let me go and get it
Cause I don't wanna stand when all is done
And I'll b next to U cause Your the one
I said it twice
And I'm a say once more
Your the one I want
I'm never gonna lechu go
There are times
When I don't get around to say what I feel like sayin
Nooo
There are times
When it gets so hard I feel like I can't take it
U make me want U
And fight U
Luv U
And despise U
Still when it feels like I ain't got nothin left
I remind myself that
I don't wanna give up on our fate no
And I don't wanna think that it's too late
So if something is broke
Let me go and fix it
And if something is lost
Let me go and get it
Cause I don't wanna stand when it's all done
And I'll b next to U cause
Your the one
I said twice
I'm a say once more
Your the one I want
I'm never gonna lechu go
Whao whaowhaowhaowhaowhao
I'm never gonna lechu go
Whao whaowhaowhaowhaowhao
Still when it feels like I got nothin left
I remind myself that I don't wanna give up on our fate
And I don't wanna think that it's too late
So if somethings broke
Let me go and fix it
And if something is lost
Let me go and get it
Cause I don't wanna stand when all is done
And I'll b next to U cause
Your the one
I said twice
And I'm a say once more
Your the one I want
I'm never gonna lechu go
Whao whaowhao ahh ahh
I'm never gonna lechu go
Whao whaowhaowhao ahh ahh

I love you bunches and bunches and bunches times a googleplex raised to a googleplex to infinity and beyond. *poke, poke*

It's been a year and we are both still alive, mostly...

It's hard to believe that I was 25 and you were 35 when we met. It seems like a lifetime ago, not just 7 years ago. People essentially say that you robbed the cradle, but I'm quick to interject that it isn't so...you have the same mentality as I do...now whether that means you are 32 or 41 that remains for them to decide. lol

It's such a weird place to be. I remember our like 3rd date, remember the parrot? I still say that woman was speaking and not the parrot. But not you, oh no, you had to fight tooth and nail that those types of parrots can speak for themselves and that voice was all parrot. You just knew. ARGH! I wanted to go home right then and there because you were such a stubborn @$$. How could anyone have fun with you and your nerdy always needing to be right ways. Really, who could?

You haven't changed. It's still a sore spot. Your stubbornness and know it all ways.

But you had so much life, you were passionate about things, I thought you were honest and I felt you were real and you were so smart. My sisters call you the rolling encyclopedia. We just seemed to fit together whether we liked it or not. We were both totally stubborn brats.


Even though I had already been engaged twice, you are the one and only guy I ever introduced to my family. You were just as amazed as I was at how my grandmother was able to steal a salt and pepper shaker set (complete with napkin coverings) so it wouldn't spill in her purse right before our very eyes and unbeknown to us. You took it all in without hesitation and you were quickly welcomed into my family.

Little did you know just how much my family was going to become our family. But even when that happened and the kids came to live with us and I wanted to send them back. You were the voice of reason, you were more than happy to take them in and you've been accepting of them as your own and they even call you Daddy.

I am so lucky.

I know I am. Even when I lose my patience. Even when I want to run away. Even when I want to just disappear forever. I know I am so very lucky.

You spoil me every chance you get. You make dinner, get the kids to do their homework and shower and in bed when I am just too tired or can't anymore at the moment.

I don't think you know it but you keep me going. I often think, if it were just me on my own, I wouldn't be doing this. But with you there, it makes it a lot easier knowing that I am not alone and that at any given moment we are together, hating on the kids in unison and for the same reasons. lol

You work so hard and I know it. I just don't tell you. I don't know why. But I guess I am telling you now. I appreciate you and everything you do.

We are a team for life and ever after.

Happy Anniversary!

I Love You bunches and bunches and bunches and bunches!