Five Years

On Friday the 12th, Matthew and I will celebrate 5 years of marriage. It's amazing to see how our lives have changed in the past 5 years. When we got married, I was teaching 3rd grade in Farmersville, and Matthew was finishing up his last semester at Texas A&M Commerce. Now here we are, living in Jordan with a 2 year old son and a baby girl coming in a couple of months!

Each year we have taken a little trip for our anniversary, just to get away from the norm and have a relaxing, fun time together. This year we are going to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, a resort town at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. Some friends of ours went recently and told us about a great package deal they found. So, we're leaving tomorrow for a few nights! I am really looking forward to getting away for a couple of days and having some quality family time. Jeff will stay here and take care of Kaiser, but Caedmon will come with us. I would just miss him too much if he wasn't with us. Besides...Jeff has still never changed his diaper, so poor Caedmon might be walking around poopy for 3 days until we got back if we left him here! The hotel we're staying at has complimentary daycare during the day anyway, so we'll have a chance to drop him off and do some things by ourselves. My dad suggested that we go scuba diving....but I don't think anyone (including me) wants to see all this in a wet suit!

Here are a few pictures from our wonderful wedding and anniversary trips:

March 12, 2005

Honeymoon - Gatlinburg, Tennessee

1st Anniversary - Hot Springs, Arkansas

2nd Anniversary - Branson, Missouri

3rd Anniversary - Holly, Michigan

We were home from Jordan visiting Matthew's family in Michigan, and we left Caedmon for the first time overnight (he was 3 months).

4th Anniversary - Dead Sea, Jordan

~ Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. ~ Amy Bloom