Two Years!

Happy 2nd Anniversary Us!

I'm so happy that I get to be with my favorite person every day.  He's taught me so much about patience and love and how to simply be happy. I know I've grown more with him than I ever could have on my own in the last two years and he truly helps me improve and come closer to my best self.

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I made Barrett let me try to get a shot of us before dinner. I loved the idea behind the book One Day to look at one day in a couple's life over the span of their entire relationship. How could I not try to do a few self-timer pics to help us remember where we were on June 4, 2012?!

These were the two I liked the most. It was a pretty difficult task but at least we tried. 

Then we headed to Ruth's Chris Steak House.  It was my first time and I LOVED IT!

Yes, I got the Petite Filet and the Asparagus (and my great sis-in-law Jenny guessed exactly what I ordered)! 

Then this Apple Crumb dessert was on the house!

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Here's a little excerpt from a talk I was reading by President Gordon B. Hinckley called The Marriage That Endures.  I really look to him and his wife as an example of a couple that found a way to be truly happy with each other. 

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Every man who truly loves a woman and every woman who truly loves a man hopes and dreams that their companionship will last forever. But marriage is a covenant sealed by authority. If that authority is of the state alone, it will endure only while the state has jurisdiction, and that jurisdiction ends with death. But add to the authority of the state the power of the endowment given by Him who overcame death, and that companionship will endure beyond life if the parties to the marriage live worthy of the promise.

When I was much younger and less brittle, we danced to a song whose words went something like this:

Is love like a rose

That blossoms and grows,

Then withers and goes

When summer is gone?

It was only a dance ballad, but it was a question that has been asked through the centuries by men and women who loved one another and looked beyond today into the future of eternity.

To that question we answer no and reaffirm that love and marriage under the revealed plan of the Lord are not like the rose that withers with the passing of summer. Rather, they are eternal, as surely as the God of heaven is eternal.

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