Four years and counting!

Four years ago tonight I was snuggled on the couch of my best friend/Maid of Honor.  We were watching 27 Dresses and laughing so hard it hurt.  I'm sure we were eating junk food and I'm almost positive at least one of us fell asleep.  And then, well after any respectable store was open, I realized I had forgotten to purchase a crucial element for my wedding day...I didn't have a garter!  How on earth did I forget to purchase a garter?!  We ran through every possible solution...Victoria's Secret on the way to Ocala in the morning, WalMart, Target...all of which seemed a little too risky...do they even carry those in the store?!  Maybe we could find a bridal store?  And then Regina had a ridiculously perfect idea...we had to go to porn store!  It was after midnight the night before my wedding and we headed to a porn store.  The first one was a little shady...we never got out of the car!  lol  (Aren't all porn stores a little shady?!)  So we headed across town to another one.  When we walked in the door we were told we had to lock our belongings in a locker...WHAT?!  Okay, we were desperate!  It took a little searching, but we found one...with a graphic, plastic ornament on it!  Use your imagination!  That came off in the car on the way home and came back to haunt Regina later!  lol  I can only imagine Angel's face!  :0)  We stopped for one last junk food push before the morning.  I vaguely remember telling Regina I was going to blame her if my dress didn't fit!  That Whaddaburger hit the spot; I slept like a rock until morning.  It was the day I had waited for my entire life.

I have never been happier, chaos and all.  And there is no other person I'd rather have by my side to hold my hand, make me laugh, wipe my tears, and make me a better person.  That day was the start of a new life; our life.  The family that was built around our love has surpassed any expectation I could have ever dreamed.  In this crazy world...

"All you need is love...love is all you need."

Photographs by Rob Witzel Photography

 "I didn’t always know it was your touch that I craved or your smile that brightened the day or your kiss that felt like home.  But when I found you I recognized these things from years worth of dreaming.  You finally crossed my path.  And despite my fears and initial apprehensions you waited, with your arms wide open for me to find solace and comfort in.  It was your embrace I had been seeking all along... 

You are all things important, reaching to all corners of my world.  You’ve made me happier and more content than I ever thought imaginable.  And although I may not always make it easy, I vow to spend every day of my life trying to do the same for you.  

Doubt thou the stars are fire.  Doubt that the sun doth move.  Doubt truth to be a liar.  But never doubt I love."

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"I enter this union with you filled with more excitement and hope than I knew I could feel.

Our path will not always be easily navigated.  It will undoubtably present hardship and challenge, as every road does.  Through these I promise to you my unyielding pursuit of our family’s health and happiness.

I promise to be your best friend, and put your needs ahead of mine

I promise to be passionate, about our love and our life

I promise to be loyal, and a father deserving of the title

I promise to be strong, and a rock on which you can lean when times are tough

I promise to be spontaneous, and celebrate us, even when moments must be stolen, and dances danced in the kitchen while dinner is cooking on the stove

And I promise to do my best to inspire you the way you inspire me

From this moment on I know

exactly where my life will go

Seems all I really was doing

Was waiting for you...."