It's My Anniversary!

This is just outside the church right after we got married. Love the bear's flowers...my BFF and Maid of Honor put them together the morning of the wedding.

Happy 3rd Anniversary to me and my husband! :)

In honor of the day, a few fun facts:

• We met in Alaska. He actually had my brother's (Luke, the one who died) old job, which is how we met. It was dreamy...whales and glaciers and Northern lights and quaint little towns...such a perfect backdrop to falling in love. I remember sitting up on the roof, just the two of us, of this little boat we were on that had nudged up close to a glacier, he sitting with his back against a wall, me in front of him with his arms around me, watching the glacier calf...so magical 
• We met just a few months after my brother had died. I was a MESS. I don't know how I would have gotten through that time without my husband. He was amazing to me
• We did the long distance thing (me in Santa Barbara, he in Alaska and then Seattle) for about a year and a half before moving in together 
• I'd been married before and was VERY skittish about getting married again (had nothing to do with my husband, just the institution of marriage in general). I made him warn me before he proposed (I told him, "If you surprise me, I might freak out and say no, and I don't want that to happen.") He did warn me, which made me love him even more, but now I wish I'd let him do the big surprise "popping the question" thing...I'm sure he would have done something fabulous
• We had trouble deciding where to get married...considered Las Vegas (just could not make that happen...long story) and Thailand (wouldn't it have been cool to have had a baby elephant there on your wedding day?), but ended up in Colorado in a tiny little log cabin chuch that belonged to a freind of my parents. It was perfect
• I was SO HAPPY on my wedding day. The whole day, just ecstatic
• We're definitely a case of opposites attract. My husband's 5 years younger than me, and very smart in a math-and-science kind of way, very logical. I'm into literature and the arts, emotional. He's a night owl and I go to bed early. He likes video games and science fiction, I like the outdoors. But somehow it works. We're alike in a lot of ways too...we're both kind of homebodies, and family and each other comes first, we're both very responsible so that all helps
• I feel happier and more in love with each passing day. And we are sooooo excited to bring two little babies into our little family. I am lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky

XOXO