Five Years.

I started this post back on November 19th last year... our anniversary and totally forgot about it until I was scanning my blog posts today. Please excuse the poor pictures, my lens is not a macro but I wanted to document my new favorite thing!

I can't believe it's already been five years married to my hubby. Time goes quickly, but when I think back, it seems like we've always been together! Jarom and I decided not to celebrate until Saturday since he had school on Thursday nights. We went out to New Moon (woohoo!) and to Longhorn for dinner (YUM!). We had such a good time together, and realized we need more date nights. We often get caught in the shuffle of life and it will be a couple of months in between each "date".

5 Things I love about my Hubby

1. He is so laid back! Honestly, sometimes this irritates me because I can be so uptight about things, but MOST of the time I love it. He doesn't care if I serve him cold cereal or steak for dinner... seriously. He is so easy to please!

2. He is such a good dad. Addie adores him and he is wrapped around her little finger. I love how comfortable he's gotten with her over the last two years. He was so nervous to be left alone with her for the first year, but now he's used to it, and does a great job. I love our moments when we laugh together over something sweet Addie does or when he and Addie play "tricks" on me.

3. Jarom is such a hard worker. He works a minimum of 60 hours a week with his job and is going to school at nights to get his degree. I know it is so hard on him, but I love that he wants me at home with Addie and does what is needed to make it happen. I love my time with my little girl. I also love that he's worked school out so that most of it is online (the exception is math and sciences) so that he has more time at home with us.

4. Jarom is really creative and a big dreamer. I love that he isn't the type to be fine with a teeny house or a so-so job. He is always looking for ways to improve things. Jarom wants to have our "dream house" sooner than later, he wants to be in a job that requires less hours so we can have more family time, and he wants good things for us, so he comes up with ways to make these things happen and I love it. He is so much like his Dad in that they are always coming up with new inventions or money making ideas. I tend to me more afraid to take risks, so together I think we have a pretty good balance.

5. I know this is a little something, but it means so much and is one of my favorite things Jarom does. Every morning before Jarom leaves for work, he makes sure to give me a kiss and tell me that he loves me. Then he goes and kisses Addie while she sleeps and watches her sleep for a minute with a grin on his face before he goes. If Addie happens to open an eye while he is up in the morning he jumps on the opportunity to talk to her before he leaves (much to my dismay sometimes if we've had a late night, haha!).

There are so many other things I love about Jarom and our marriage, but those are just a few of my favorites.

Before on the left and after on the right!

For our anniversary Jarom upgraded my ring like he promised he would when we first got married. My other one wasn't in good shape and needed some costly repairs (including redipping it since it looks like yellow gold above when it was white gold) and was rather tiny (we were beyond poor when we got married). We got an amazing deal at Billy Mitchell Jewelers out at Diamond Hollow Farm in Moulton. It is about an hour and 15 minute drive from our house, but his price was about 1/3 of anywhere else we went (and trust me, we went to at least 6 jewelers and I shopped online for months). He apparently sells to places like Zales and Kay and he just recently started advertising (before he was only by word of mouth).

The detail on the sides of the ring is the same on the wedding band too!

I got Jarom his first Flight Lesson for our anniversary. He wants to get his private pilot license so I figure if I buy him a lesson for Christmas, his birthday, etc. he'll get his license before we are 50...haha! He'd like to be able to fly, so we'll see how the lesson goes and then consider more lessons after that. His new found obsession with flying came after a guy in our ward took him out flying and let Jarom fly for a few minutes. He had such a good time and got some fun sky pictures (that I'll post if I ever get my laptop back from my hubby- he's been working in Decatur the last month pretty much every day so I am stuck here with only my picture-less desktop).

Here's to another 5 fun filled years, followed by eternity!