Our 3 Year Anniversary on 09/09/09

Lesson: You’re as happy as you want to be.
 
Three wonderful years ago today, Mark and I started the beautiful relationship we now share.  It’s funny when I think about it because I knew I loved him then during our first year together, but I feel like I love him so much more now.  I’m starting to think that is what love is all about.  It’s not the "I love you now just as much as I did back then" I don’t think that’s really true.  It’s more like "I love you more and more each day."  I feel like we know each other better today than we did yesterday and that makes me love him more.   If that makes since. 
 
I’m glad this is a day we remember and celebrate because it’s important to me, and to us.  It’s like OUR holiday where we remember how the US began.  We don’t really exchange gifts.  I’m sure he will get flowers like he always does and we just write sweet little love notes in cards and exchange them.  This year though I bought him a Mike Vick jersey since he’s a huge Eagles fan and now he’ll have it right in time for football season.  I just freaking hope it came in the mail today!  Ha oh well, it’s okay if it’s late.
 
I told Mark that this year on our anniversary I wanted us to tell each other one thing we want the other to do differently for our next year together.  I already thought of mine, which gave me the idea in the first place and it’s very simple…. I just want Mark to watch a sweet, girly, chick-flick with me every once in a while lol.  May seem silly, but I like to watch a girl movie sometimes, not all the time or anything, and it sucks watching them by myself.  I just want him to let me pick the Netflix movie and bare with me even if he doesn’t like it.  I don’t know if he remembers I asked that, but I’ll ask. 
 
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That was written earlier in the day, sooo this is how the anniversary dinner went… When we exchanged cards we both laughed because we said a lot of the same things! And it’s even more ironic because of my first paragraph in this entry way earlier.  We both said "I love you more and more every day" and both said something like I want to be with you forever, we’re going to have a great life together…. it was adorable.  I love him!  His card said "p.s. I owe you flowers when Stinky leaves" and that is a smart move because we’re cat-sitting Stinky and he eats all plants, flowers, leaves, anything really.  He was even chewing on my flip flop last night, like a wild cat lol! But I love him too!
 
Mark and I went to Red Lobster and it was deliciousss!  I got a crab alfredo pasta, as usual I always get pasta, and Mark got the endless shrimp.  We just chatted and enjoyed our meals together with out the TV or any cleaning up to do afterwards.  It was very nice!
 
I asked him about our "new years resolutions" for each other and I told him I wanted him to watch girly movies with me sometimes and we picked on each other and laughed about it.  When I asked him what he wanted me to do for him in our next year together he just said, "Nothing, I like everything the way it is."  It was a good feeling.
 
No, my gift for him didn’t come in the mail yet so it will have to wait.  Maybe today.  I did give him a little teaser though and told him I had something for him but it wasn’t ready yet and he got excited.  He’ll be so happy to get it, I know!
 
At the end of the day, it was a wonderful anniversary and as long as we could spend it together, that’s all that matters!
 
Friends kept asking if I thought he would propose on our anniversary and of course I didn’t really know for sure, but I kinda figured it wouldn’t happen just yet.  I think it’s obvious we will be engaged one day with how much we talk about the future and getting a house and kids etc.  We’ve both imagined and talked about what married life would be like together.  We’ve even talked about our wedding and who will be in the wedding party and lots of other details.  And we’ve also talked about not getting engaged until we’re ready to get married and we’re not ready for marriage right now.  I know maybe others don’t feel this way, but we think that we should at least have real full time jobs before we start a life together.  I’m a secretary and he’s a football coach.  Mark is on the right path in his career, but I’m not and something like that should be figured out first because then life gets too busy and too crazy to really focus on you and your personal/career needs.   
But to be honest though, even if he would propose today, I would still be ecstatic haha!  It would just feel like a symbolic thing like yes, we’re going to be together forever. Yes, he loves me just as much as I do him.  Because even though we’ve talked about it a lot, that would mean it’s REAL, like this is REALLY the beginning of us being together forever. 
 
It touches my heart to think about what we have and how lucky I am to have such a great person in my life.  I see friends and people around me with relationship problems and I’m so happy to know that at least this part of my life is stable.  Some people search and search for The One and God just lead us to each other, though it seemed to me it all just happened by coincidence, I know it was His plan.   I am thankful for what we have!