3 Months

Happy 3 month anniversary to my wonderful hubby!  These first months of our marriage have been filled with lots of ups and downs (more ups though), a cross-country move, a new job for me, new travel opportunities, busy, busy, work days (and nights) for John, new friends, and lots of quality time spent together.  We are missing our family and friends in Utah like crazy, more so lately because of the upcoming holiday season and partly because of all the new snow we hear has hit Utah as well.

Even though we are celebrating just 3 months of marriage, we recently celebrated the 7 year anniversary of our first date.  John and I met at USU and it was the year I was Arts and Lectures VP and in charge of bringing speakers and performing artists to campus for the students.  I had a visit from a guy named Gary who was on tour with the Warren Miller ski film because he had been working on the films with Warren Miller for a few years.  I guess he was on the speaking circuit and wondered if I would be interested in possibly booking him to come back to USU for a speaking engagement/presentation of his film talent, etc.  What was in it for me?  Free tickets to that night's showing of the Warren Miller ski film.  I said yes to the tickets, but sadly we were not able to book Gary to come speak.

Well I had recently hung out with John a couple of times and he had mentioned his love of snowboarding so I thought it would be great to go together.  Luckily he was available on short notice and that night we had our first date!  He held my hand and I was smitten.  Unfortunately, it was short-lived and we didn't have our second date until nearly a year later...but we all know how the story ends (or really begins) so I guess it all worked out, right? :-)  Anyway, we have made it a tradition to go to the ski film again every year since (minus one year when we were not speaking, but I digress) and it is always the official start of ski/boarding season for us because we get really excited for the upcoming snow.  This year it will be a little different snow-wise, but I think it's really cool that we were still able to have our anniversary date all the way out here and see the same film we would have watched in Utah.  The great thing about here is that we get 4 ski passes instead of just the 1 we would have in Utah.  Yay for skiing!

I really do have the best husband ever-I know most women will say that but I really am so lucky.  He is my best friend, my number one supporter, and the funniest person I know.  He is loving and romantic in his own cute little way.  We have so much fun together and the adventures just keep coming.  He is very thoughtful and does nice things for me all the time.  He does the dishes.  Every day.  Seriously.  And sometimes he cooks too (and wishes he had time to cook more).  He works so hard for our little family and he is passionate about his work and doing a good job and being successful.  He loves kids and our nieces and nephews love him.  He is going to be an amazing dad one day!  He puts up with my quirks and my moody days and can always make me smile.  I love him so much and I know 3 months is such a short time, but we have already had a lot of years together and now things just keep getting better and better.  One day we're going to be celebrating 30 years and probably wonder where the time went so I'm just trying to enjoy every day together and really focus on the things that matter the most.