Happy Anniversary to us. (:

Eric and I were married six years ago today in the San Diego Temple. It was a beautiful ceremony and a joyous day. We had known each other for eight years, and been engaged for three months. We knew each other pretty well. They say that people change a lot during their lives, luckily we were able to see many changes in one another and ended up still being in love. We both served missions which I would say changed us individually tremendously. We had also been through some ups and downs before we made the commitment that we did. So for me that was an important aspect in choosing my eternal companion. I wanted to feel like I really knew him and knew what I was getting into.
After the wedding, I discovered that I was pretty much right about him, but not so much about what I was getting into. (: Marriage brings so much happiness but I found it also takes work. After six years we are very happy, but we still have our ups and downs. For example, last night Eric slept on the couch. I was thinking, well this will be a lovely anniversary... haha. When we occasionally quarrel, usually over the kids, I have a tendency to end the conversations before things have been resolved to his liking and go to bed, which leads him to be angry and go grocery shopping, (a stress release for him), and then come home and sleep on the couch. But I am happy to report that we made up today and now have a full refrigerator.
On the other hand, we know even more about each other now and how to make each other happy even better. For example, Eric told me early last week that he had a surprise for me on wednesday and 5:30. After bombarding him with questions and asking for clues he let me know that he had made me a hair appointment with my favorite hair dresser for a cut and low lights. I had been wanting to get this done, but knew it was really expensive and so I just kept putting it off. So he made the appointment for me and paid for it and all that. So sweet.
I know how much Eric loves Entertainment and movies. He loves to study how much money they make, who is in what, what the audience thinks, and of course watch them. So some friends of ours are going to watch the kids tonight while we go see Star Trek. I admit, I get something out of it too, I get to watch a movie with no interuptions, but let's just say Star Trek would not be my first choice. So that is what I am doing for him.(: It's nice to be able to just sit and hold hands though and talk on the car ride there and back without somebody spilling a drink in the backseat or screaming.
So here's to us, on our sixth anniversary, may there be many more, and to Rico, I love you will all my heart and feel so grateful to have you as my husband.