when two became one...

1... the number of dates it took me to be "crazy" about him!

3... the number of days before I realized He was "The One"

7... the number of days before we exchanged "I love you's"

6... the number of weeks from our first date, to the day we became engaged

137... the number of "up in arms" and "whoa is me" phone calls and emails I received from my sister and mother

0... the number of reservations I, personally, had about marrying him

6... the number of months from our engagement to our wedding day

9... the number of years I've been happily married to the man of my dreams, my very best friend, the father of my children... the absolute LOVE OF MY LIFE!

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And it begins...



I will never forget this moment. So many tears. So much emotion!



Two become one...



The Happy Couple!

Wordless Wednesday

(Snuggling in bed with my 3.5 year old son)

Me: Who's your favorite mommy in the whole world??

Alex: Daddy!!

Now, I know he loves me. He really does. But he is such a Daddy's boy! He is right at that age where life is all about Dad. And in many ways, I love that. I delight in the fact that they are close and that he admires his Daddy more than anything. It is precious to watch him look up to his Dad, follow him around and want to be just like, "Daddy." Everything from wanting to grow up to be big and strong "like Dad" (the only way I can convince him to eat his vegetables) to wanting his hair to be "just like Daddy's." He is a true Daddy's boy through and through. And, even though I'm not his favorite "mommy" in the world... right now Daddy is... I wouldn't have it any other way.

A whole lotta love going on...

There's been a whole lotta love circulating around here in the form of love notes. Every where I turn there is another love note!!

Are they for you? .... you ask


No. Sadly they are not.


They are from a little girl who is so crazy about her Daddy that she can't stop writing it here, there and everywhere!


Exhibit A...





Dad, I love you.


You are the best.


You love me.


We go to the zoo.


I like you.


You love me and I love you.




Exibit B



Dad


I love you because you play


You make me :)


I like to go to the zoo with you today.







Another card laying around...

"Open It" (she writes)

Oh... but of course.

It reads...

Oh! Look. Here is (yet) another one...

"For Dad" it reads

"Look in the back" she writes...

And there they are again- holding hands on one page and, again, another reminder that "I Love You"

These are just a few of many, many, many notes and cards I have found laying around the house in the last week. I will bet I have found 10 or 11, at least.

Of course, this declaration of love does not go unnoticed. She received a note of her own from her dear Daddy...

And here they are. Daddy and his little girl...

Wordless Wednesday