Suprise

This morning Brandon headed off to work so that he could be there by 6. The best part was he was home before 10! He only had to work a little over three hours today. When he hits 40 hours he is off and today that happened early! It was a great surprise for me and for the boys, who were out of school today for Holy Thursday. What I did not know was this was the first surprise today, there are more to come.

I had a photo shoot but thanks to the weather it seemed best to cancel it. I probably was for the best since it started raining around 10 and it was at 10:30. The bottom fell out, but soon after the sun came up which was nice. Since the clouds had been pretty heavy for the past 2 days seeing some sunshine was nice.

UPS came this afternoon and brought me a box from FTD florists. It was from my amazing husband of 9 years and 364 days, tomorrow is our 10 year anniversary. He has always known how to make me smile and today he definitely did that. There was a very cool purple vase and once I finally got to them, the most amazing roses I have ever seen. They are rainbow roses and they are gorgeous! I plan to photograph these babies everyday so stay tuned! Definitely the most gorgeous roses I have ever gotten! I love my man for so many reasons, and these just added to it.

The boys both had games tonight. John Michael at 6:00 and Danny at 7:30. Well, John Michael made it to the second inning and the game was called. The weather got nasty fast, but did not last too long. We ended up getting to come home pretty early which was nice. I love baseball, but tonight I was tired and really just wanted to be home with my three men, and well my roses ;)

So I am off to bed, tomorrow is a day off, but it is a day filled with stuff to do including somehow celebrating 10 amazing years!

9 Years Ago Today....

9 Years Ago today I married my best friend, the one that I laugh with, live for and LOVE! I cannot believe that it has been9 years it does not feel like that much time has passed. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was one of the greatest days in my life.

The two pics are pictures of pictures...I will have to get a lot of things scanned since I am in the process of cleaning out again! Wedding pics are a must!

Each day our love has continued to grow, we stand next to each other. Neither of us are in front of or behind the other we are always next to each other, a truly united pair.

I met Brandon in January of 1995. We were 14 almost 15 and the people that we were dating were friends and decided a double date to the circus would be fun. We did have a great time, and ironically Brandon and I hit it off from the beginning. We were instant friends, we continued to meet up at the ballpark where our brothers played. We exchanged phone numbers one night, even though we were both still dating other people, but we were truly friends. It grew into something more very quickly and I knew before I was 16 that I would have spent my entire life with him. All I wanted was to make him happy and to be with him. He did break my heart and for a few months we barely spoke. We started to become friends again and would date off an on, but that was it. I was terrified of being hurt. Years later when we were out of high school and actually both engaged, we were 20 he called and in no time we were best friends again. We called off our engagements. In November of 2001 we were engaged and in April of 2002 we were married. While the details go deeper and I could write about our love for hours that is the short story. It is our fairy tale and he is definitely prince charming! We truly went from strangers to friends to forever!

Today he came home, much earlier than I expected. He surprised me with gorgeous flowers and 2 cards. We had cub scouts so we headed out for that, had dinner at Pasquale's which was very good and then onto the store to get the things for the Q & U Wedding! Now we are home and exhausted. One more note the boys' plants have started to bloom!

Before I go to bed I will remember you all in my thoughts and prayers. I also pray that everyone has the opportunity to feel a love like the love that Brandon and I share. It is magical and rooted in our faith in God.

"So Faith, Hope and Love Remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:13