Life With Our Little Ladies: Memorial Day Weekend & 11 years

Monday, February 11, 2019

Memorial Day Weekend & 11 years

Joe and I celebrated our anniversary together a few days early, because we planned to head to Lake Bluff for a couple of days for Memorial Day weekend. We walked around Troy wondering how we are old enough to be married 11 years already. Every year that we stand in this moment and celebrate is a testimony of God's goodness to us on so many levels. The things God has taught us about love, overcoming, growing together and celebrating these good gifts are too many to count. But, we spend our anniversary doing just that. We remember and we rejoice. We celebrate and we hope for the future. Most of all, we spend lots of time reflecting and thanking God for all of it.

Joe and I were up late preparing and packing up for the Bluff and then almost as soon as we fell asleep, our oldest baby crawled into our bed with a fever. It was definitely not what we planned for the weekend, but we found lots of reasons to be thankful for the silver linings in these sweet moments and slowed down family time together.

"Mommy, will you read to me so I can fall asleep?"

Since we were home for our actual anniversary, due to the change in plans, the girls did such a sweet job of organizing a special evening for us. They went into super secret planning mode that morning and only allowed us to cook the meal. They did the rest. We celebrated 11 years complete with anniversary crowns, fancy glasses and a special poem. It was the best! We told our girls stories about the days when we knew each other, but had no idea what God had planned for us. Ella giggled and said, "Well, God's plan is always better guys!"

Yes. A million times yes.