9 Years!

(photo taken by tavis johnson at betsy's wedding this past summer)

Nine years ago from today I started on a path I knew absolutely nothing about. I remember counting out how many hours, days, weeks and eventuallly months we'd been married for the first year or so. I can't believe that was 9 years ago! Where did the time go?

In nine years we have been through 4 pregnancies 3 of which were high risk and stressful. We've survived a very sad miscarriage, major back surgery when Chris could do little more than sit in bed for 3 months straight--while I was 8 months pregnant. We lasted through almost a year of unemployment. We made it unscathed through Mykenzie in the hospital for a week with RSV, the early arrival and subsequent 2 month hospitalization of Payton. We were there together through my grandparents' deaths, building a house together, adding on to the house together and the daily struggles of raising 4 kids in today's world. We've made it through a lot together and all of these things have made our marriage and our family what it is. We've learned to rely on each other, to trust one another and seriously, the true meaning of love--it's less to do with emotion and EVERYTHING to do with action!

Happy Anniversary, Chris! It's been an amazing 9 years!