Happy Anniversary

Happy *cough* anni*cough*versary *cough-cough* sweetheart!

I wish this past weekend would have been one filled with high romance and long passionate kisses. Instead, the boys and I got hammered into the ground by some kind of devilish chest cold. I can tell you now though I had plans..oh yes I had plans. I swear I did. Really.

Anyhoo. 7 years of marriage. What the H? How do you do it? Why do you do it? Why is the sky blue? Where is Jimmy Hoffa buried? All these questions...

Now if memory serves, we have been dating/going-out/seeing-eachother, etc. for...holy cheese...almost 14 YEARS! Is that right? Woah. Try this one; next year at this time, we will have been together for half our lives. Freaky. Cool, but freaky.

It seems like just yesterday I was standing in my parents' backyard holding you and asking you to be my girlfriend. I was 15 years old. If I had known all that hung in the balance of your answer, I might not have asked. What if you had said no?...

There would be no first kiss. I would never have gotten to know your absurdly large family so well. I wouldn't have had to face your Dad and his legal pad of questions when asking for your hand in marriage. There wouldn't be a ring under the tree on Christmas Eve for you. No hilariously boring wedding "classes." No wedding. I wouldn't have seen how beautiful you were in your wedding dress. No standing up, kneeling, sitting, kneeling, kneeling, standing, kneeling and sweating profusely in a rented tuxedo with a smile on my face as we took our vows. No kick-A reception afterwards. No San Diego. No first apartment. Nothing. There would be no us.

And there would be no THEM. No Jake. No Brady. Phew! Man, you really hit a homerun there slugger! I served it up slow and straight, but you really drove that sucker deep. How about that? All you had to say was one magic word, two times, and look what we got out of it.

Thank you for all that your life has brought to mine. You fill my heart up in ways my feeble mind can't express. I love you forever.