Anyway... I am moving on, because my successful day is actually not what I am blogging about tonight. Briggs and I (yes I still call him Briggs...I know its weird...I try to call him Justin but that is even weirder) celebrated our 7 year anniversary on Sunday! Seven years!! Last weekend, My parents kept Emma and we headed to Pigeon Forge for the weekend. You don't realize how thankful you should be for alone time until you have kids =). We had so much fun. We have been to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg so many times, but honestly, We still love it. (although, I do want to venture outside of the U.S. soon ;) )
I am so thankful for the Man God has blessed me with for the past 7 years. I pray that He gives us many more together!! With every passing year, time feels more obvious to me. I think about time and how fast it goes by...especially since we had Emma! I mean she will be three!!
Briggs and I were married when we were 18. When I think about that now...seven years later...I am amazed. What were we thinking?!? 18....my little brother is 18..He's not ready to get married!! at least, not in his big sisters eyes =). I am sure a lot of people that knew me said the exact same thing about us when we said "I do" . The thing is...I am more thankful everyday that we did marry young. We didn't have everything situated. We didn't make a lot of money, neither one of us had graduated college, and we didn't really have any sort of plan. Thinking back though...I had a peace. I believe it was a God-given peace. I knew in my heart, that Briggs was the one He had for me. Everyone before the wedding kept asking me about wedding day jitters and nerves. I didn't have them. Sure, I was nervous about walking down the aisle without tripping and falling, nervous about all eyes on me, nervous about everything being just how I planned it, but not about who I was marrying. I don't really know how to explain it, but I just knew. People say that you shouldn't get married that young because people change so much in their young adult years...The awesome thing about being married at 18 is...we changed...but we changed together. They say the first year is the hardest, and I would agree with that =). We came back from our Mexico honeymoon, literally just spent all of our money bartering with the locals. Came home to a broken refrigerator. The first year was full of things like that!! Seriously, we had no extra money. We went from seeing 1 or 2 movies a week while we were dating to seeing a movie once every 3 months. Our first house was small, dated, and old. Everything needed to be fixed and we were always working on it. I think our first year was the hardest mostly because we went from having no responsibility to having the responsibility of our first home added to the fact that we didn't know how to live with anyone else but our parents. We argued!! Oh my word...we still do.alot. But we definitely argued more then! We are firm believers in the phrase that if you don't have an argument once in a while, you don't have a good marriage. Another awesome thing about being married young is that we learned how to deal with things together as a couple...as One flesh. I hear people talk about getting married young and how they regret it. They tell every teenager they see...wait as looooong as you can! I personally will never regret my 18 year old wedding. And to all the people who thought we wouldn't last, I am glad that we have proved you wrong. I continually pray for God to guard our marriage and Home. Without Him, we would be nothing.
I look back at our wedding and we do seem like different people now. We have grown up a lot. We have changed spiritually, emotionally, and physically. I love my husband now more than ever. We are a team. I feel that now more than ever. Where I have a weakness, He has a strength and vice versa. We rely on each other. We don't go separate ways. We are best friends and soulmates.
At our wedding we played "For My Wedding" by Don Henley. I still love that song and so much of it is so true.
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