Dear Blake,
Happy 8th anniversary today!
It's wild to believe that it's been nearly ten years since we met in that HEB parking lot in
I'm writing you this note over a month in advance and automatically scheduling it to post on our big day because I honestly don't know if either of us will remember it's our anniversary on March 12 this year. I wonder if we will have a one week or two week old by this time? However, it was important to me not to allow this day to sneak by without telling you how much I adore you.
It's no surprise to you that I was somewhat a skeptic of successful marriages ten years ago and although I consider us still in the earlier stages of life, still constantly learning and growing, I never expected my love, respect and admiration to continue to grow for you on a daily basis. It blows my mind how even two (three by the time you are reading this) children later, my adoration for you is a thousand times stronger than even on our amazing wedding day.
I love how we have purposely built our lives together to be around one another as much as possible. I cherish the fact that we still love to run errands together, go to bed at the same time and genuinely are each other's best friends. I know this sounds dorky and completely 1980's but I truly believe you are the "Yin" to my "Yang." You are the one that has kept me in balance over the years, your dedication to me and our family on a daily basis continues to surpass my highest expectations and although I work hard to tell you every single day how much you mean to me, I don't think I can say it enough.
I ask myself on a regular basis how I got so lucky by agreeing to marry this small town East Texas boy, not even knowing how amazing you would make my life ten years after meeting. It’s the little things that you are always doing for me, coffee in the mornings, making the bed because you know how it just starts my day a little better, helping me cook and clean up everyday, having Addie’s lunch made the mornings you leave for the airport at 5 AM, texting me every single time you take off on an airplane to tell me that you love me, giving me space when I am stressed, living with all my to-do lists, allowing me to relax at the point you know I am about to over-do it and just holding me once I have “over-done” it. All these things combined mean the world to me on a daily basis and I hope I tell you thank you enough.
*** I have hid the remainder of my letter to you in a book that has so much meaning to us that we read and implemented soon after we were married.****
Now for some of the first and only pictures of Megan and Blake in 2003...
(This was probably THE VERY first picture ever of us and yes, poker chips, red solo cups and beer were involved in good ol' College Station!)
December 2003
Now for some of the first and only pictures of Megan and Blake in 2003...
(This was probably THE VERY first picture ever of us and yes, poker chips, red solo cups and beer were involved in good ol' College Station!)
These were were way before we were engaged - Halloween 2003. I think we were trying to be Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey based on the rock on my hand, blond wig and fake tatoos on Blake's arm....
These four pictures in 2003 about wrap up our first six months of hanging out and begining to date!
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