who gets married four days after christmas?.....

{favorite 2012 photo of us}

we do. well, we did. 

today is our 28th wedding anniversary.

i was twenty when we got married, and he was twenty two. wow, we were so young, weren't we? i don't know how we've done half the things we've done or how we've moved as many times as we have, but i do know one thing...everything i've done in the past thirty two years {we dated first} i've done with him. my best friend.

not only is he my best friend, he's my rock. he's my biggest fan and my loudest cheerleader. how either of us knew in high school that we were meant to be together is beyond me, but somehow we knew. call it luck. call it intuition. call it love. call it being in the right place at the right time. whatever you call it, we've been blessed. blessed in love and living and blessed with two amazing kids.

now before you start rolling your eyes, because i know some of you are, we've had some ugly days together, too. don't believe for a second that we live in the land of rainbows and glitter, because we don't. we've had fights and tears just like everyone else. honestly though, we hate to fight, so they never last very long. believe it or not, we've never gone to bed mad at each other or made the other one sleep on the couch and because i was born with the gene that prevents me from being quiet, well... silent treatments only last about an hour around here.

so today we celebrate. we celebrate love and patience, honesty and understanding, hand holding and back rubbing, secret words and nicknames, knowing glances and smiles, truth and openness, tears {happy and sad} and hugs, cuddling and making out. but even with all of those amazing things, we first and foremost celebrate putting each other first and making each other number one.

my hubby's dad {my wonderful father-in-law} told him years ago...."put each other first...make each other number one NO MATTER WHAT." so when life, over the past twenty eight years, has lifted us up and then turned around a few days later only to throw us back down {and stomped all over our vulnerable places while doing so} we've put each other first...we've made each other number one.

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so, to the love of my life, happy anniversary. thank you for loving me the way you do.

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