4 years.....already?

Well dang it! I missed the opportunity to write a wonderful reminiscent post on our wedding anniversary. I missed it by a day (that DOES NOT mean I forgot the anniversary itself) and I don't know of any way to back-date these posts, so now there is proof that this post is a day late.

At any rate, I just wanted to mention that as of yesterday, David and I have now been married for 4 wonderful years. In that time, we have had three different residences, plus two more that were only temporary. We were homeless for a couple weeks (when we moved to Lubbock ...thank heavens for the kindness of our realtor in letting us stay in one of his houses). We have lived in two states. We have earned 2 college degrees. Somewhere along the lines, we picked up two dogs. We have held jobs with 10 different employers between the two of us (and a new one for me starting on Wednesday...yay!). I have made somewhere around 1,500 pillows. We have owned 8 different cars/trucks, a scooter, a quad and a boat (I think this one is a little ridiculous...David gets the car-buying bug way too often). And thankfully, only one trip to the emergency room.

It has been a great 4 years. I wish I was better at expressing my thanks to David for moving to Lubbock with me for school. He is the best husband in the world. Here's to the 4 years already behind us, and to the rest that lie ahead of us.

It's just kind of a bummer that we didn't not get to see each other yesterday. Out of 4 anniversaries, so far we have spent 2 of them in different states from each other. For our first anniversary, David was in Reno, and I was in Socorro for my graduation from NM Tech. But that was okay, because the next day we met up in L.A. (me with our frozen top layer of wedding cake in hand) and left on a cruise. Our second we spent in Reno...probably went out to dinner. Our third we spent in Lubbock. I remember we went out to eat, and it was the first time we had a chance to go out in a long time. We had just been spending so many hours working on our house, late into the night. And for our fourth, once again we were apart. David is in Lubbock with Ruka and Riley keeping him company, and I am in Socorro.

I guess that's the way it goes. It really doesn't matter where we are. I still think I found a keeper, and I'm glad I have David to share my life with. HAPPY 4 YEARS TO US!

"Hey Elaine, what do you say, if neither of us is married in ten years, we get hitched?"
"Make it fifty."
"We're engaged!"
- Kramer and Elaine, in "The Wife"