Anniversaries

It seems like so many people I know are having anniversaries. April and May are just big marriage months I guess. Our 4th anniversary is in 3 days, on May 5th. Hooray for us! Four years has gone by so quickly, and it already seems like it's getting harder to remember what my life was like before Dax. Besides the gospel, he really is the rock in my life. We each have strengths where the other has weaknesses, for which I am so grateful, because he helps me to be a better person. I thought I was so in love when I was married. Not that I didn't love him when we were just married, but that kind of love seems so premature now. After going through four years of everything together my love has deepened and grown in ways I couldn't imagine just 4 years ago. I'm sure people who have been married decades think the same thing about where I am now. Steve Price told Dax when we were married, "So you think you love her now huh? Just wait until you've been through 30 years of work, hardships, good times, children, and everything else that life will throw at you. Someday you will love your wife in ways you don't understand now." I've really been thinking about that lately. I'm so excited for our love to keep growing and to live and love for eternity together.

What are we doing this year for our anniversary? Good question...Dax better have something good in store for me. On our actual marriage date he will be thousands of miles away, in what is deemed the most romantic city in the entire world: Paris, France. For the next two weeks Dax will be in various cities throughout Europe, for the global product development class he is taking. However, he gets to see Les Miserables in London, go to Paris, float down the Danube on a riverboat and have dinner there, etc. Things that I would LOVE to do! Don't get me wrong, I am so glad that he is there, and I actually pushed him to go when he was hesitant about it. I just wish I was there with him. It is going to be a long two weeks without him. Don't worry, I've only had one meltdown so far. :) Unfortunately it was at the end of Relief Society today. I made a to-do list of many projects I have been needing to do, and I'm already most of the way done with them. This could be a long two weeks. 14 days and counting.

In the meantime Hayden and I will be going to dinner together on Wednesday...pray for some nice weather for us so we can spend our two lonely weeks outdoors.