Happy Anniversary, Two Days Late

Before I begin this post, I just want to say thank you for all of your comments about our little surprise. I appreciate all of the support and well-wishes from you guys. I am starting to get a little more excited about it.

Kevin and I were married on August 31, 2002. Our 6th anniversary was on Sunday, but we were in Utah, so I'm just getting to this today.

Our anniversary wasn't a huge deal this year. We spent Labor Day weekend with my family in New Harmony, Utah. Everyone at the house agreed to watch our kids while Kevin and I went to dinner in Cedar City. They have a new sushi place there, and it was actually really good. We came back to the house after we ate, and that was the extent of our anniversary celebration.

It's been a great six years. Kevin is my perfect match, and I want to list some reasons why that is.

He complements me:

• Kevin is a morning person, and I'm not. I love that he gets up with the kids for me on the weekends.
• Patience is not a quality that I was blessed with, and Kevin is the most patient person I have ever met. The nicest thing about this is that I think he has rubbed off on me a tiny bit in the past six years. I used to go nuts when I found out he had bought me a gift for an occasion or had a surprise planned for me. I had to know what I was getting or what the surprise would be. I've gotten a little better about being able to wait for those things.
• I over-worry, and Kevin doesn't worry about ANYTHING. This quality of his can actually make me a little crazy. Some things are really worth worrying about, like when a person needs to show up to court about a traffic ticket, and Kevin seems to not let this or anything else bother him. I think together we find a happy worrying medium.
• Cooking is stressful to me. Kevin loves cooking, or at least that's what he tells me. He says that it is relaxing to him. He ends up cooking for us most nights.
• I'm a total perfectionist (in a bad way) when it comes to certain things, like the way my clothes look or the way my house is put together. Kevin will wear the rattiest-looking pair of jeans and tell me they still look brand new when I tell him he needs a new pair. This has been so good for me. He has helped me realize that getting a tiny, unnoticeable stain on a shirt isn't enough of a reason to get rid of that shirt, or that a small nick in the paint on my wall or a little scratch on the furniture is not something that people are going to come into my house and judge me for or even notice most of the time.

We are the same in the best ways:

• We both grew up in Las Vegas and graduated from high school the same year. Although we didn't go to any of the same schools, we had a lot of similar experiences being part of the CCSD, and we also remember a lot of the same things that happened while we were in school because we're the same age. For example, I will say to him, "When you rode the bus in sixth grade, did you guys hear that song Informer like every morning on the way to school?" And he will say, "Yes. And we all made fun of it." And I say, "Yeah. We did too." Kevin and I always have conversations like this. I love this about him. It's fun to reminisce about the past with him because he always knows what I'm talking about, and he always contributes his own experiences about movies that came out, or events that took place, etc.
• We both love to watch good movies.
• We don't do a lot of outdoor things together, but we both really love to snowboard. This is actually something he taught me to do. I'm so excited to do more of this with him now that my parents have a place in Utah.
• He likes the Twilight books. I convinced him to let me read the books to him. He just finished the last book this weekend, and he thinks it's a great story just like I do.
• We both love to eat, and the restaurants we both love to go to are all the same.

There's so much more, but this is the gist of why we were made for each other. I love you, babe. Happy Anniversary.