Today, Justin and I have been married for three years. Three years sounds like such a short amount of time, but so much has happened in those years that it feels like it should be much longer. We have been very blessed to have such a happy, rewarding marriage, one in which we keep learning new ways we’re compatible and new things we love about each other.
I know we’ll soon be facing new challenges and new experiences with a brand new human being entering this household, but I know that we’ll be able to face those challenges head on as a unified couple because of the strength we’ve built throughout these years, and I am inexpressibly thankful for that because I know not everyone is so lucky, often through no fault of their own.
Anyway, I think that’s all the sappiness you want to suffer through. I’ll save the rest just for him except to say that I am forever grateful that I married a man in the best sense of the word, a man who is self-sacrificing, thoughtful, supportive, sensitive, honest, and loving. I don’t think I even realized how incredible he was when I married him (or realized how much growing up I had to do to feel like I deserve him), but I find more and more as time goes by that confirms what a truly great man he innately is.
Happy anniversary, babe!
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Happy 3rd anniversary Shannon and Justin! I hope it’s a great one for you :) By the way, I thought that your anniversary was coming up very soon. I remember you were getting married the day I was in labor with my first daughter Reagan, haha. I have this psychotic ability to remember dates…lots of dates.
Wow! Happy Anniversary you guys!
Happy Anniversary you two! That is awesome. In all honesty, I wish some of Jenny’s ability to remember dates would somehow rub off on me via this posting. I have very little ability to remember dates.
Congratulations! Happy Anniversary! That’s a really pretty photo, too.
i love you both! happy anniversary! so we (mostly the guys) got a father’s day message at church sunday…which was “be a man, and all that it entails” and funny to read your comment about Justin being a man. way to go justin, you’ve got this all figured out. :) it’s so fun to read (and see) how happy you are together…not that i ever doubted. remember – boy. dancing. unbelievable giddiness. living room. about. girl. = happiness.
happy anniversay….!! all the best for the bright future ahead of you!! ..or should i say sappy anniversary. hehe. hey, sappy is happy…enjoy!
…it’s a bit late, but happy anniversary!
we’re coming up to our 7th in a few months – on the one hand it seems like we’ve been together forever (in a nice way – but that’s what having kids does to your sense of time – you vaguely have era BC – before children and AC after children and it seems like two entirely separate lifetimes) – and on the other I’m thinking seven years? It can’t be seven years already, surely?
But since our eldest is 6 later on this year, and he was born 13 months after we got married, 7 is obviously right!
Although I’m not entirely convinced on the traditional and modern gifts. If I give the GLW a ball of wool or some pens and pencils, I’m not convinced she’ll take it particularly well…