You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.” ~Henry David Thoreau

Friday, March 13, 2009

Eleven years & still smiling.

Some random things we THINK we have learned in our 11 years of marriage.....
~ Love is hard work that takes compromises, sweet compliments, and a real listening ear(and doing the dishes without asking).
~ Time shares even with prizes & dreamy sales pitches are a total waste of time!
~ homemade Chocolate chip cookies make any horrible day much better.
~ Flowers for all occasions really do fall off of trucks!
~ Our motto, which we made early in our marriage, "Wealth is Wasted on the Old", is a hard one to follow in such poor economic times.
~ raising children is tough, but worth it!
~ folding underwear is not necessary.
XOX Happy Anniversary to us! XOX

Please not:This year we will be switching our anniversary date to July 11th! Some of your may recall that the date 7-11 was our original wedding day. Every year we are so focused with Atticus' celebration (March 8th) that we let our day kind of slide by. So, make a note, mark your calendar, and remember to hit your local 7-11 store for your choice of a Happy Dame Anniversary Slurpee, on us!! (Okay, so their free anyway that day!)

Holy Cats, this was taken in our younger years even before getting hitched! At an Indigo Girls concert in Atlanta. We were still teenagers with tans!

The latest photo of us in Spokane going out on a real date!

4 comments:

Sorensen said...

Happy Anniversary!

Shannon said...

Happy Anniversary to you. I love the then/now photos. You two look great!

Krystina said...

I too agree that folding underwear is not necessary!

And Erik and I will be celebrating your July 11th anniversary by going to see Coldplay at the Gorge! Yay!

Anne said...

Happy Anniversary! It was fun looking at the pictures.