Like my new look? Decided it was TIME. And the reason being was that I was sick and tired of having itty bitty little pictures on this blog. So, I had to change everything to get my pictures big. It really needed it though. Andrew thinks the owls are creepy, what does he know anyway?
Speaking of that guy, hey! I've been married to him for 3 years now! Yikes!
I wanna say it's gone by fast. But has it? The honest and true answer to that is: NO. No way. Is that bad? I hope not. It's felt like 10 years. Or more. The reason being this: We have been through SOOOOOO much in those 3 years, it's not even funny. Well, actually it IS funny now. We look back and giggle.
Here are some of our adventures, obstacles, triumphs:
*The first 2 years of our marriage, lets just say I had a VERY, VERY hard time adjusting to the whole "in-laws" thing. It was rough, and many fights stemmed from that particular subject. I've matured a little, and everything is hunky-dory now, THANK GOODNESS FOR THAT.
*We haved moved. and moved. and moved. 6 times to be exact. St. George, then Logan, then another place in Logan, then Maryland, then Tennessee, then we split (he was in St. George, I was in Richfield for a month. No, we weren't fighting. We were trying to find a place.) Then St. George again, and now Washington (Utah). Good grief.
*We had a baby. Now, to those of you who have had a baby, you know that things get pretty ugly (physically, emotionally, etc!) Andrew stuck it out with me somehow through that gosh-awful pregnancy. And the 26 hours of labor. And the pushing. And the devastation of the pushing not working. and he was right there during the ever so traumatizing C-section. I wanna say Andrew is a trooper, but I think I get the points on that one!
*We've been across the country and back with a young baby. (there were NO airplanes involved). We saw and experienced all sorts of tests to our sanity on that trip. Findin out Andrew is NOT a salesman, then packing up and moving to Tennessee, where we were soon out of work, so then heading home, where there we had a ROUGH time finding jobs and a place to live.
*We've battled hobo spiders, cockroaches and now ants.
*We lived in Logan. That right there is a something to be proud of. (jk, I am just bitter cause I was pregnant. Oh, and I hate winter!) While suffering out the dreadful 9 months of winter, we really learned what "being on our own" meant. We were 4 hours from my family, 6 hours from his. We grew together so much.
*Andrew has worked his butt off. After Jaxon was born, he would work 16 hour days. When we moved back to St. George, he was working 7 days a week for a few months! We've experienced being over-worked and also being laid-off from work.
*We stuggled together with trying to make it to the temple. We would go up and down. Finally, we DID make it!
*We've dealt with wasting money on crappy cars, making stupid decisions about selling cars, and now being down to only one car.
*We've been to Yellowstone, Catalina Island, Las Vegas, and fun little other vacations. (Andrew held me when I cried and cried and cried after finding out my family was going to Hawaii, and I couldn't, because I had a new-born baby! Someday, we WILL go!)
*We've been through the ups and downs and parenting. We've had to make decisions together about what on earth we're supposed to do.
Sorry that was so long. I'll stop. I just felt like it was worth sharing. Even though maybe you don't. We got thinking how nice it would have been to stay put since we got married, had a plan in mind, and recieved tons of help with everything so we'd never have to worry. But , where's the fun in that? I know we would not be where we are today if we hadn't gone through all that! I almost for bad for couples that don't get to go through that. We've learned and grown SO MUCH.
ON with the acutal anniversary. It was great. We had planned on California, but had to cancel cause of that stupid stuff called money. But we did some AWESOME stuff anyway)
ZION:
this was where we got engaged. Way more memorable than California, anyway.
We compared the trudging and struggling through this river, whose current was going against us, to our marriage. SAD!
Can I just say this was the COOLEST place ever! You get to cook your own meat right in front of you, and the FLAVOR! Oh my gosh. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. If you haven't been , you must go to the ANASAZI. Not cheap, but YUMMY!
THEN, ANNIE AT TUACAHN!
yes! We even got in free. Andrew got stand-by tickets at work. We had way way good seats. It was SO CUTE. Even Andrew liked it!
what a FUN day that was. And it was spent entirely Jaxon-free. Thanks to Andrew's parents!!
