Happy Anniversary!

Yesterday Brandon & I celebrated our six year wedding anniversary...SIX YEARS!  It's hard to believe that it has been that long already!  The time has sure flown by!  It doesn't seem like it was really all that long ago but I look at our wedding pictures and we both look so young and I suppose we were!  I had barely turned 18 but just eight days before the wedding and Brandon is two years older than me, so barely 20 himself on our wedding day.  What a wonderful day!  Some funny memories (now they're funny, not so much at the time!) from the wedding:  during our vows I started stumbling over my words during the "for richer, for poorer, for better, for worse..." part and our pastor chimes in to try and lighten things up and ease my nerves and says something along the lines of "but hopefully for richer!"  Then later as we were trying to light our unity candles someone beforehand had cut the wick so low that as we tried lighting it the wax from our candles kept drowning the wick so we could not get the unity candle lit!  I was so embarrassed and silly me thinking "I hope people aren't thinking this is a symbol of how our marriage is going to be!" but once again our pastor jumped in making me feel a lot better and said "like a good marriage it takes a little work."  Later when we were doing the cake, when Brandon gave me my bite a small piece fell down my dress and on first reaction Brandon started to reach for it but then realizing it had gone down the dress already wasn't sure what to do and of course everyone is watching during this part of the reception so he was quite embarrassed.  I went in the other room to try to fetch this lost piece of cake and Brandon starts to follow but my dad teasingly yells "you better not!" only to embarrass us even more!  What a day!  We went to Disney World for our honeymoon and it was so cool to experience so many firsts with my brand new husband!  Until that trip I had never ridden on a plane, never been so far away from home, never seen palm trees and never seen the ocean, never gotten a tattoo and never driven in such crazy traffic!  Somehow we discovered a place that let people as young as us rent a car (I think most places you had to be at least 25) so we were able to save some money by not having to pay for a cab everywhere we went and it allowed us more freedom of where to go.  One day while there we took a day drive to Clearwater on the coast and hung out at the beach.  One week was certainly not enough but it gives us reason to go back again someday...and this time with our children!

July 24, 2004