YES WE DID!!!
Here I am sitting at the computer looking around trying to post my blog on other websites to bring more people to our website and blogs.
You know all day I kind of felt like there was something I was forgetting, missing, I just couldn't really figure it out. It was there in the back of my mind, behind the stupid cold that is still hanging around me, behind the soccer kick off ordeal, behind this humid hot weather we are experiencing today....
Ugh!!! Just figured it out, it came up to the front of my brain finally!! You know when you have something on the tip of your tongue but it just doesn't come all the way out!?!? Well, it hit me just as I was exploring another site to add my blog to......
Today, this evening, 11 years ago I became a wife to my husband in the backyard of my Moms house. It was a warm evening much like today, the yard was traced with little white lights, there were white chairs lined in rows leading from the door in the living room that opened up to the right side of the backyard which was the back of our line up leading to the pastor in the front. I was getting ready upstairs with my cousin (which is Squiggly's Mom, my closest cousin), I remember taking pictures upstairs and then walking down them, butterflies in my tummy (along with Mom Jr., but ssshhh, the pastor didn't know that part). For deeper reasons my Father was not in attendance but I had exactly who I needed to walk me down the aisle. My Grandfather walked me half ways, I remember as we started out my dress got stuck on a hook, as we hit the half way spot, there my one and only Brother who I completely adore, love, and admire for being exactly who he is, for being there for me when we were little, now, and forever...He stood there with his arm out for me to hold on to. He was exactly where he should be, next to me, the one to give me away, the one who deserved the honor of giving his blessing for this unity to take place.
In my mind all I was thinking is "please don't hiccup!!" with my pregnancy hitting the 4th month I would let out these loud hiccups, I just kept telling myself over and over again "don't hiccup". Wouldn't you know it, the minute we are standing there hand in hand, quiet as can be....here it comes my loud hiccup!!!
We just smiled at each other...the ceremony was nice, sweet, and simple...my Grandfather paid for Mariachis to come and play for us. We had a dance floor set up with a d.j. It was beautiful, friends, family, not too big, just perfect for us.....
11 years later, here I sit at my desk, with all that we have brought out within that amount of time. A house that turned into a home, children that laugh, play, and love life to the fullest, friends that we are happy to have found, thankful for all that we have, healthy children, a great extended family, a wonderful community around us..........................................
Happy 11th Anniversary to my Husband who never gave up on us, who told me we would have beautiful children, who could see what I couldn't or was just afraid of letting myself believe was possible............................................A Loving Family!!!
If I don't say it enough............I do love you, my husband of 11 years and here's to many, many, more.........................
Just a Mom who's been married for 11 years!!!!
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