2 Days Before V-day

For the next few days I'll be featuring some of my favorite bloggers. I asked them one simple question, "Where do you see you and your husband in fifty years?" Feel free to leave your answer in the comments...I'd love to feature your comments in a post later!

Today we have the amazing Amber from Goodnight Moon as our guest blogger. After reading her guest post, make sure you show her some love over at her blog. Thank you Amber!

Our wedding date picked itself.

When you choose to marry a Marine

{or any military branch}

you have to understand that you kinda get married on

Uncle Sam's terms.

Did I ever think I would be getting married in the month of February?

Heck no!

Nope.

Not at all.

I really don't like the month of February.

It doesn't hold anything special in my heart.

No particular day stands out to me besides the obvious

Valentines Day.

And with that being said

I'm not to crazy about Valentines Day.

To me it's just another Hallmark holiday where

your suppose to confess your love extra special to one another that day.

It's just a day where women want men to read their minds

and

when their man fails

{because lets face it they aren't even close to being mind readers}

we as women get all upset

and

heart broken

thinking that they don't love us enough

or

know us well enough because they didn't deliver

our expectations.

So when

Fox

and

I

sat down to look at the calender to see when we could get married

we weren't able to pick a date that held a special meaning to us

or

pick something silly like

03-04-05

or

05-05-05.

As we sat down

and

looked at a calender for the year 2005

we also had to have Fox's work calender right beside us.

February 12th was the only weekend we could get married

within our wedding window time frame

due to Fox's training schedule.

But to us it wasn't about the date

it was about us spending the rest of our lives together.

Fox

and

I

decided against a big wedding.

We were married in Las Vegas

and

had an open invitation to anyone that wanted to fly out

and

be apart of our special day.

We held no expectations of anyone.

We booked a cheesy chapel to marry us

and

had about 30 guests that flew in to be apart of our special day.

The best part was

we didn't have to entertain any of them

Vegas did that for us.

Our wedding day was about our love for one another.

It was about simplicity.

I remember standing in front of Fox

as we exchanged our vows to one another

our eyes never strayed.

We lived in that moment.

{This picture was taken from a very old school camera. The date's not even right?}

I married my best friend

on a February day

that is 2 days before

Valentines Day.

But that doesn't matter

because each anniversary that we never get to spend together

{sadly this is true...and when I say never...I mean never which will also includes our next anniversary}

is another year that I remain one lucky lady.

Marrying Fox was my destiny.We are so completely connected

and

in tuned to one another

that sometimes its really scary.

Where do I see us in 50 years?

Sitting on our front porch

rocking in our Cracker Barrel rocking chairs

holding hands

and

still in love

and

hopefully neither one of us will have dentures.