3 Years.

On August 26, 214, Garth and I celebrated our third anniversary! 

I wrote a special post about Garth which can be read HERE.

Garth has had to work on our anniversary for the past 3 years, but he always plans something special for us to do. Instead of buying each other gifts every year, we decided we would rather spend the money doing something together. In the past 2 years we booked a hotel and had our own little weekend getaway, but this year we knew that wouldn't be a possibility being in Edmonton with no babysitter. 

We decided we would wait and go to Denver, Colorado in October instead. We have been planning our week long trip to Denver and I am already so excited! Garth served his mission there so not only do we have people to visit, we will also be going to a Bronco's game and a concert!

Anyway, back to our Anniversary....

That night when Garth got home from work, he had a little surprise for me, which I wasn't expecting at all! He had rewritten the lyrics to an Alkaline Trio song and played it for me on the guitar. I love that he is musical and enjoys singing and writing songs for me, because it is my favorite thing ever. 

Here are the lyrics, which he informed me later were written while I was in the shower, right before he sang them to me haha. 

Like 2 bees in the hive we were dancing and swinging

At the sweethearts ball 3 years ago.

Time has flown by so fast but my heart is still singing

"3 years down, forever to go"

Now our son is so cute, second one coming soon

Not a clue how you do it each day,

Yes we've started to thrive, but if we're gonna survive,

There's a few things that I gotta say

Let do hot chocolate at Starbucks forever,

Tim Hortons cocoa is too cheap

Listen to music together

iTunes is well worth the fee

Now when I take you to moxies, out late, dear my darling,

I hope you'll leave one son at home

I don't think watching you shop is that boring

So please don't go all alone.

I took a blind leap of faith, the doors I started knocking

It's paid the bills for now 3 years.

The summers are hard, but I won't hear you talking,

Complaining, wanking or full of jeers.

Now on August 26th, always work, hard to fix

Your so amazing I won't hear a peep,

So I got us some gift cards to share my dear darling,

I hope you don't think I'm cheap.

Let do hot chocolate at Starbucks forever,

Tim Hortons cocoa is too cheap

Listen to music together

iTunes is well worth the fee

Now when I take you to moxies, out late, dear my darling,

I hope you'll leave one son at home

I don't think watching you shop is that boring

So please don't go all alone.

He then presented me with some gift cards, which you can pretty much guess what they are for from the song haha. Starbucks, Itunes, Moxies and Forever 21. He is so cute.

Garth had mentioned to me over the past couple of months that he wanted to make a video of our Honeymoon. We have a lot of fun putting together videos of our trips together, our family videos etc., because otherwise the videos on our computer never get watched. They are amazing keepsakes to have and so I decided to make a video of our Wedding/Honeymoon for us to have.

It is funny because when we watched it together for the first time he commented on how he didn't feel any less comfortable with me then than he does now. From the moment we spent time together we were just ourselves, always comfortable with each other and just in love. Sometimes when I realize we have only been married for 3 years I can't help but think, That's it?? It's hard to remember a time when he wasn't in my life.

I am so excited to be married to this man forever. He makes all the happiness in my life seem more exciting, and when the hard times come around, they are a lot easier to face when I know I can cuddle up to him and cry on his shoulder. 

I really am the luckiest.

-A.