Happy Anniversary!

Matthew 19:4-6
" 'Haven't you read', He said, 'That at the beginning the Creator made them male and female and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.' "

Nine years ago, Jim and I stood side by side in front of God, our families and our friends and recited our vows. We ran headlong into life together and haven't looked back. It was a beautiful, hot, dry summer day in Montana and even though we've weathered some big storms our days together have remained beautiful. It's funny to me now to look back and think about all of the planning for the wedding that we did. It was one fun party that reached into the wee hours of the next day but my true joy doesn't come from our wedding, it comes from our marriage.

We celebrated our marriage, low key style today with the kids. We took them to their first movie at the theatre... Wall-E. It was a great way to spend our anniversary since Wall-E is a love story with a sprinkling of "take care of the earth and yourself". They were SO good! We will certainly take them again. We then went to lunch at the local "grill", did a little shopping and headed home to play in the sun. Dessert was red velvet cake with a cream cheese frosting - yum! (I can hear it calling my name from the fridge...)

It feels like Jim has always been a part of my life yet, at the same time, there are so many things that I remember, even from the days that we were dating, like they were yesterday. I hope it's still this way in 50 years!