6 years and counting!

Daddy and Erik window shopping

Erik at the table (notice his entree of milk!)

Becky and Mike!

Yesterday was Mike and I's 6th wedding anniversary. I must say the years have flown by! We've survived moves, job changes, pregnancy loss and fertility woes...and this year we have survived the birth of our first child...finally!

As I was remembering this day 6 years ago it was a non-stressful wonderful day. Mike and I had been planning our wedding for quite sometime. First it was to be in Tahoe in June - but that wasn't convenient for someone, so we changed it to the fall in Half Moon Bay but that wasn't convenient with those starting school, so then we changed it to December, but that wasn't convenient because of the holidays and it seemed like no date or time we picked made people happy. We had already booked our honeymoon in September since that was the easiest time for both of us to get off work. A week of that trip was at the beach house, and another week we thought would be fun to go to Vegas. By the time we got to Vegas we were so sick of trying to please everyone else's schedule that we just went ahead and got married while we were there! It was non stressful - no wedding dress, no flowers, nothing but the two of us, (and Shanan and Martin as witnesses). The justice of the peace was lovely and made us promise to cherish the little things each day and not sweat the small stuff!
We were married at 6:20pm and then went to some old casino for dinner. I wish we had stopped there with all the wedding craziness. We went ahead and had the big white wedding in December with all the stress, flowers and last minute going's wrongs (the wrong color cake, music that wouldn't work etc) of any weddings and I remember as I was walking down the aisle that I was thinking - it's ok, it doesn't matter we've already been married for 3 months. The big wedding wasn't necessary (I thought that for YEARS as we tried to pay it off), I tell anyone these days it's not the big ceremony that makes a difference - it's just the two of you that count. You can get married in a box as long as you're both there and take those vows seriously. The decorations, how much money you spent, none of it matters 6, 10 or 20 years down the road. It only matters that you're still together!

We went to Half Moon Bay today (the three of us!) and had a lovely walk around the little shops on Main Street and then a yummy lunch at Sam's Chowder House.

I can't believe that 6 years has gone by so quickly and now we start a new chapter - Parenthood!

Sometimes the nights are hard trying to figure out things like why is this baby crying when he should be happy? Worrying about his poop/pee and if he goes enough, or too little? Why does he bend his neck that way? Why does he sound like he is going to choke when he's drinking? Why Why Why? Whatever the answer - we'll figure them out together!

Here's some pictures of our day in Half Moon Bay!