Love & Marriage, Love & Marriage

Saunders and I celebrated our fifth anniversary yesterday (December 27). It is hard to believe we've been married for 5 years! Sometimes it seems like it should only be a year or two, and other times it seems like we've been married forever. In January, we'll have been together for a total of ten years! Although we definitely can have our sparring matches, we are truly a matched set and soulmates. We agree on almost everything but disagree on just enough to keep things interesting. We work very well together as a team, and we work very hard on our marriage- being thoughtful, helpful, and supportive, and taking time each day to talk to each other are big priorities. Being happy and fulfilled together is not something we take for granted, and I think that our happy marriage is a result of our efforts as well as our love for each other. I think we'll be together for "as long as we both shall live" as we promised to each other five years ago!

I can remember our wedding like it was yesterday- it was such a fun night. Some of my favorite memories of the day are... Saunders's face as I came down the aisle, listening to Phillip Dothard sing The Lord's Prayer, the feeling of leaving the church as Joy to the World played, how surprised everyone was at our choreographed first dance, the delicious food- especially our cake... just the whole night! I'll never forget how all our guests danced and danced, either. We had such a good time that we stayed until the very end! Saunders got out our wedding video a few weeks ago, and we watched it and relived the whole thing. It was so fun to see everything again- especially our toasts and all the messages that guests said to the videographer. Some of them are just hilarious!

To celebrate, we went out to dinner at D. Morgan's downtown last night. We had a drink in the bar like two real adults, and then we went upstairs for a delicious dinner. I had French onion soup and shrimp with grits, and Saunders had hummus and steak with potatoes and asparagus. Afterwards, we went to the movies and saw Twilight. (I finished the fourth book on Friday.) I really enjoyed the movie, and Saunders did, too. Here's his quote as we were leaving the theater: "I can't believe how not terrible that movie was." :)

Here are some pictures of us throughout our relationship as well as one we took before going out last night.

Our second date - how young we were!

Homecoming Night- Fall of 1998

Senior Prom

Spring of 1999

Cartersville High graduation
UGA graduation
The happy couple!
Our first dance!
On our honeymoon...

The king and queen at Atlantis...
Yes, we even planned our honeymoon trip so we'd be in Florida for UGA's bowl game that year. That's dedication!

Us last night- Happy 5 Year Anniversary to us!