May 13, 2014 11:01
So, today marks the tipping point where Chris and I have been together and married for more years than we were together and unmarried. Eight years ago today we threw a big party on a mountain and made it official. We had found out the week before the wedding that I was pregnant with Jonah (and I swear it was after we had already ordered the Simpsons replica "Whale of a Wife" cake as the groom's cake). Three weeks after the wedding, Chris would be offered a job at Vanderbilt and we started preparing to move to Nashville. By the end of June, we were in a townhouse in Brentwood. By the middle of August, we had closed on our first house, followed by a solid month of painting and ripping out carpet and mini blinds and wallpaper borders that were installed over even older wallpaper borders and the initialization of Operation Brass Eradication (which as of last month, we are closer than ever before).
Now, that fetus is about to finish first grade and we're thinking, "oh shit, shouldn't we really be closing in on that ten year plan of goats and guns?!"
Almost fourteen years since we met. It hasn't all been unicorns and rainbows, but it mostly is right now and that's what really matters.
goats and guns,
anniversary,
chris,
jonah,
wedding,
life,
marriage