Happy Anniversary!

This Sunday Steve and I will celebrate our first year anniversary. It has been a good year!
It seems like it was just yesterday that we said "I do," while at the same time it feels like we've been married forever. I could never imagine my life without Steve in it.
To celebrate we're leaving in the morning to go to Nashville for the weekend. It will be nice to get away for a few days.
Marriage has taught me so much about myself. I've learned that I'm sometimes too independant, most of the time selfish and still pretty much the worlds worst cook!
Steve & I have really used this time to establish ourself as a family and it's been good but often hard. I can be hard headed sometimes and I'm a real thinker. For every decision I like to analyze and come up with every possible outcome and scenario that could be affected by the choices we make,. Steve's not like that so it's kind of been a year of learning to chill out a little bit for me.
For him it's been a year of a good dose of reality. Steve wasn't a spoiled child by any means when it comes to material posessions, but he was spoiled in the sense that his mom took care of a lot things for him - stuff like balancing his check book, researching auto insurance rates and the rest of the basic "adult" stuff. I've always done all of that for myself so sometimes we butt heads and he doesn't understand why I take so much time in the evenings or on our day off to pay the bills, set up appointments and stuff like that. He's never had to do that stuff so sometimes I think he gets overwhelmed when I talk about simple things like the due date for our mortgage and stuff like that.

Those are really quite trivial matters and normal stuff that come along with the first year of marrige.
At first I was a little scared about our first year of marraige because I had been warned by so many different people that the first year of marriage was the hardest, but to be honest I think it's been pretty great - for me at least. :)

I love knowing that I'll always have someone to hang out with and be myself with. Steve truly is my very best friend and has brought so much joy to my life.
Sunday is not only the anniversary of our first year or marriage but it's also the second annivesary of us being together as a couple. Yep, it's been 2 years now since I've been single. I can't really say that I miss too much about the single life. Of course there's a few things but they are not great enough to make me desire that life again. Being with Steve has been wonderful. He has challenged me and made me a better person. So, as our first year of marriage comes to an end I look forward with anticipation for the many great years we still have before us.

That's all folks!