Happy anniversary to us!

8 years ago Doug and I got married...not just for this life, but for eternity. Eight years seems like a while, but in some ways it has gone by quickly. It seems like we're still learning new things about each other that we didn't know before. That's exciting. I'm so grateful that I get to spend forever with my best friend. I love spending time with him even if it's watching a sporting event ( of couse I appreciate a good basketball or football game like any girl-no, seriously I really do). I love how he wants to share the exciting moments of the game with me. "Hey Jen, watch this!" as he rewinds the TV and then shows me what was so cool. I like that he gets excited about things and shares them with me. Too bad he doesn't get as nearly excited when I show him a cool cooking manuver or something funny on 'Iron Chef'. Oh well. We have eternity to perfect that one! I love that he is a hard worker and people respect him. I'm very proud of him for all he's accomplished. I don't even know how I would have gone through school with two children being born, having a full time job, and traveling across country to find a new one. I love that he respects me. That was one of the main reasons I fell for him (that and his blue eyes and his rear looks really nice in jeans!). I love that he respected women and that was quite nice after some of the jerks I dated. I love his sense of humor. Granted, I may roll my eyes at times, but it really is a very sophisticated sense of humor- another reason I fell in love with him. Ask him to tell you the Little Miss Muffet joke. You'll roll your eyes too, but it's an example of his humor. I love watching him play with the boys. He is Jungle Dad. They love playing with him too. Too bad I don't have the energy to be climbed upon for an hour. The boys look up to him and love him. It's so nice when he comes home and they both go running for the door, shouting, "Dad!!" and then they wrap their arms around his legs. It's so cute. I appreciate all that he does for us. I really appreciate that he values my girl time and my need to get out. I know that is unique about our relationship (that I get a weekly girls night). I remember his mother telling me that we have a very unique relationship. I believe that this is because we were such great friends before hand. I'm grateful for the foundation of friendship we had for nearly a year before we started dating. I'm grateful for his courage to come up to me one Sunday afternoon over 8 1/2 years ago telling me that he was attracted to me but didn't want to jeopardize our friendship, so what should we do about it. (of course he told me in french so it wasn't nearly as scary for either of us!) I'm grateful for his mother and that she taught him to be such a wonderful man. I can only hope that my boys turn out as well him.

Well, I'm getting verclempt (a SNL term from 'Coffee Talk'). I thought I'd post a few oldies but goodies from that wonderful day 8 years ago.

This one is us as we came out of the temple as Mr & Mrs.

Don't you love the poses that your photographer makes you do?

Cake cutting. We were both very nice with the cake, but who would expect anything other than niceness from Doug with a handfull of cake. When we were taking this picture, I was like "hey, where's my fountain?!" They messed up, but it was shortly remedied by propping up the cake on a pedestal and putting the fountain under it. We actually did save the top part of the cake in our freezer. It was chocolate with a mint filling. And it was not that tasty a few months later when we got it out. There was no way we were waiting a whole year to eat that thing!

Maybe tonite for family movie night we'll fire up the video camera and watch wedding videos. Then again we haven't really watched them for 8 years. I think that it would bore the boys. We'll get them out when they get ready for their own weddings. Hee hee. That would be embarassing for them.