Pink Mama In A Blue World: marriage

Today marks a great day in history. Not only was our sweet Channing born on this day last year but on this day eight years ago, Josh and I said, "I do". It was a perfect day. We were married at The Liberty Theater in Puyallup. It turned out to be a beautiful and extremely hot day. Like 90 degrees or something! We had about 150 family and friends attend. It also happened to be the same weekend as Meeker Days, an annual street festival. I think the highlight of the day (besides marrying my sweetie, of course) was walking through the festival in my wedding dress, Josh in his white tux, and everyone saying congratulations. We even were beckoned to the stage by the band that was performing at the time and they had everyone clap for us. I'm not one to enjoy being the center of attention, especially in front of a lot of people, but this was unusually fun. We enjoyed yummy food and fun music (Josh enjoyed socializing while I enjoyed the music=). We stayed later than most and were seen off by our closest friends and immediate family. We then took the hour long drive to downtown Seattle to stay in the beautiful Hotel Andra. On the way we got stuck in a major traffic jam, at 11pm! We found it comical as everyone was honking at us and yelling out the window, "Congratulations" because our car was screaming, "We just got married" thanks to our bridal party. We did make it and the hotel was amazing. Probably the nicest hotel we've stayed in, to date. The next morning we drove to University District to have breakfast with my sister and her husband. Then the four of us went back to our apartment down the street and opened all the presents. It was so fun! Then we left the house in a mess and headed to the airport to start our honeymoon! We flew to the Caribbean to the British Virgin Islands. It was an amazing 10 days! Now we're hoping to go to Hawaii in two years for our 10 year wedding anniversary which also happens to be the year of our 30th birthdays! It will be a great celebration!
In eight years we've moved to a new town, bought a house, got a dog and three cats, each had new jobs, traveled, had two sweet boys and had our many ups and downs. I love you babe and look forward to many, many more years! <3