For Josh.

June 8th 2002

I love my husband. I know, if I was just meeting him for the first time, I would still be just as attracted to him. Just as fascinated by what he has to say. He is truly besides our 3 babies my favorite person on the planet. He is the realest person I have ever known.
When we met 8 years ago I was just finishing high school. I literally had just graduated a couple days before we met. We did EVERYTHING the wrong way the way everyone tells you not to do it!

June 8th 2009
We were inseparable from our first date on. A couple months later we decided to move in together. My Mom was so upset, she thought at any minute I would come home. At the time I was 18 and he was 20. We decided to get engaged about 4 months later. We drove over to my Mom's house to tell her in person. To make it official! Thinking back now, how young we were, I was just 18!! We hadn't even known each other 6 months, neither of us had jobs at the time or were in school. I can't believe they all didn't laugh in our faces. When we got married almost a year to the day we met. Nobody thought it would last!

Well, we made it. Or are making it. I know no relationship, no marriage is perfect. I believe in taking each day as it come. I believe in love, and in compromise, and most of all I believe in letting the little things slide! Freaking out when things don't go exactly as you want, or arguing when you don't agree JUST to get your way are the biggest mistakes I've made! It took me so long to learn to pick and choose my battles wisely. It took me forever to learn that! These are just a few things I love about Josh...

He is the best listener. When you tell him something, he really hears it. He gets it.
He never puts on an act, he is what he is. Nothing more, nothing less. If you are an insurance salesman, working at Burger King, a bank executive, or a homeless person on the street. He will treat you the exact same. He has so much respect for EVERYONE. He cares REALLY cares about people. And wants to make a change. He is such an awesome Dad. The love he has for his kids amazes me. He's so patient with them. He also helps with them as much as I do. changing them, feeding them, giving them a bath. And he LIKES to do it! I'm so grateful he hasn't had a regular 9-5 job so he has had the chance to spend so much time with the kids! He is such a hard worker! He puts all his energy and focus, into whatever he's doing. He has taught me so much about myself! Not to sell myself short. Whatever I'm interested in. He will listen and want to learn about it too. He has taught me so much about the nature of people,and what's really important. He is truly my hero. I love to just hear him talk, and he is the best whistler! Seriously, it's a lost art! He's always singing too. Always, and it makes me happy.