After Seven Years.

On March 21st Nate and I celebrated seven years of knowing one another. We sent our annual (slightly cliché and sappy) text messages to each other on Thursday, gushing about how ridiculous it seems that we have been together for over 1/3 of our lives now.

♥ June 15, 2009 ♥Yesterday it hit me a little differently as I sat at work longing to relive this past weekend. It was one of those ‘ah ha’ moments that made me positively giddy and excited to be living this one precious life. What was it, you ask? The realization that our relationship has been growing every day since the day that we met, and that it will continue to get better every day going forward. That’s exciting, right? Every day of my marriage will be the best day of my marriage yet because we’re learning more about each other every single day. A lot of people frown upon getting married young because “people change”. But I haven’t been able to figure out how that’s a bad thing. Watching Nate change and grow has been one of my favorite things about being married to him and I hope he would say the same about me. Some of the most identifiable traits that make us each who we are today have really only developed in the last few years. Nate wasn’t a runner when we met; not even when we got married! So he certainly didn’t have a goal to run a marathon on all 7 continents in 2016 at that time! I was a blogger, but I didn’t have a sense of direction that I wanted to go in with blogging. I had no plans of being serious about photography, handmade, or lifestyle blogging as an actual source of income – but that’s slowly started to change and I’m making baby steps. We both have these relatively new interests and lofty goals to accompany them – but we love helping each other toward achieving those goals.

This past weekend was wonderful – we watched our two sweet friends get married, danced the night away at their wedding, went out for a delicious Sunday afternoon brunch at First Watch (we’d never been before!), hung out a while at our favorite local cd/record store, had a beer at Country Boy, and stopped at Barnes & Noble on the way home to buy a book I’ve been looking for. Our weekend was the perfect mix of things we both enjoy (except for the dancing – he did that just for me! haha!) and I’m so thankful that we’ve started to love a lot of the same things. I can’t wait to see how our relationship will continue to grow over the next year and the next!