to many more.

Today marks one year of being married to my sweet husband.
One year of laughter.
One year of hard work.
One year of compromising, learning, loving, growing, teaching, traveling, training, and believing in the future.
One year of marriage.
Not easy.
But beautiful.

One of my sister's favorite author's when we were growing up was (maybe still is?) was/is Madeleine L'Engle and she has a few really great quotes about marriage. This is one of my favorites.
"Ultimately there comes a time when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take. It is indeed a fearful gamble. Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take. If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation. It takes a lifetime to learn another person. When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling."

Happy Anniversary Chad...I will tell you what I ended up gettting him later. Not that he reads my blog anyway but just in case.
I told him that he didn't need to get me anything since I got a new ring with my grandma's stones so we will see if he does get me anything. I knew he wasn't romantic when I married him so it is really ok...