We're Best Friends

Johnny and I recently had a quiet dinner together at a nice restaurant.  There was no one pulling on our legs, no one needing their food cut up, and no one wanting to get up and run around the restaurant.  We sat together, we looked at each other, and we talked.  We talked briefly about the scary dark cloud that seems to be stuck over our lives but we also talked about how truly blessed we are by our kids and each other.  It was a good evening.  It was a much needed evening with my best friend. 

Later when I sat down to think and write I was drawn to the memory of my wedding day.  I remember our ceremony vividly.  We planned each minute of the ceremony from the songs to the verses that were shared and I remember the moment I vowed to spend the rest of my life with Johnny.  We vowed to love each other for better, for worse, in sickness and in health, in joys and in sorrows, until death do we part, and if I'm being honest, we had absolutely no idea what that meant.  Of course, at the time we thought we understood.  We had the most sincere intentions and whether we fully understood or not, we both made that promise to love and to cherish each other and we trusted that with God as our center we would be a force to be reckoned with and I think we are. 

But like I said, neither one of us knew what was coming.  Neither one of us knew that Satan was going to try to wreck our world and try so hard to wreck our family.  We never imagined that we would lose our third child.  We didn't know that days were going to feel impossible to muddle through.  We had no idea what sorrow really was or how it could change our entire perspective on life.  Now, as I think about our vows they mean so much more than they ever have before.  I need Johnny.  I have given literally all that I have and all of my love to him and he has done the same.  On that sacred day we made a promise and I am so glad we did.  I am so glad that I have him by my side for better or for worse.      

Our First Bath

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We loved our time at home (once we made it here).  The first bath was eventful (to say the least).  Johnny manned the camera as I took on the challenge of bathing two babies in the sink.  Here we go! 

Best Husband

If there was ever something I wanted to add in our backyard it was a hammock. I have begged and planned out (on actual) paper where it could go, what it would look like, and how exactly my sweet husband could make it happen. The thing is, if you know my husband at all, you know that he is obsessed with our yard (He loves yard work as much as some people love going on vacation. If you don't believe me, check this out!) and the idea putting something like a hammock in the middle of his yard was less than appealing.

So imagine my surprise when he came home one day and said, "I really want you to have a hammock in the backyard. I know you have really wanted one..."

My eyes lit up! I actually kind of thought he was kidding!! But as you can see from the picture below he started to make my one wish come true in our very own backyard. It wasn't an easy job either...he used concrete and it was dark outside...still so impressed.

Who doesn't want to lay in a hammock and read a book all summer! (And, those books will have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with graduate school because I will finally be done!!) What a good feeling that will be to just relax. All it needs now are a couple screws and my amazingly comfortable looking hammock!