5 Years....and one day.

The beginning

Eric and i celebrated our 5th anniversary yesterday. It is unbelievable to think that it has been 5 years. The condensed version of our last five years goes something like this: Wedding, move to Tuscaloosa, school and co-op, move to Auburn, school, move back to Tuscaloosa, school and a new co-op job, my graduation ceremony, Eric moves back to Auburn, another baby on the way, more school, Eric's graduation, FINISHED with school. Eric gets a job, moves to Florida, Ella and I move in with mom and dad. Move to Naples, FL, welcome baby Jack. Eric builds a hospital, we layout on the beach. Another baby on the way, Eric gets a promotion and a vasectomy, move to Boise, ID., welcome baby John. Eric builds a rehab hospital and i have a miscarriage. Move to Raleigh, NC, another miscarriage, another baby on the way, another vasectomy! Eric builds an addition to a psychiatric hospital. Move in with mom and dad, welcome baby Ben, move to Statesville, NC, Eric gets another promotion. Here I sit looking over the cliff notes of my last five years and i have so many memories, the one constant in all of them is my husband. The man who has stood behind beside me for better or worse, for richer or poorer, "for sicker or wellness" (in Eric's words, HA!), 7 moves, four different states, and four beautiful children. Most of those are because of him but i have to say i would follow him anywhere. Though my life is often difficult it makes it easier to have him here to help me. He does such a wonderful job taking care of me. He loves me when i have been in my pajamas all day, dirty hair, covered in food, poop, pee, spit up and any other bodily fluid you can imagine, dirty house, pile of laundry and no dinner made. Those are the bad days when he comes in makes dinner, bathes kids, cleans the kitchen and does the laundry and insists that i go lay down and rest. I am luckier than Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. I think i just might possible be the luckiest woman in the world. Our life together has been quite a trip over the last five years and i know that we have the rest of our lives for it to get even better and i can't think of anyone i would rather spend it with than my best friend, my husband.

Five years later