Year Two!

Today is our Second Anniversary! Time has seriously flown by, it feels like just a few short months ago I was being introduced to Austin at the Summer Games Opening Ceremonies! Staying out as late as I was allowed to, squeezing in every last second with him before he had to leave. We were so young (we still are) and had so much fun falling in love. We didn't have much time to get to know each other before Austin left for Basic Training but we sure tried!

Austin took this pic the day he told me  he loved me!

 A few days after he left is when I realized I was going to marry him! Mind you, I haven't even started my senior year yet and I've already met my husband. I hadn't really thought about it until my mom asked me, "do you think your going to marry him?" It hit me like a ton of bricks but I knew it was right! Austin came back for Christmas, I was with him every single day for 17 days until he left again and then came back for good in February. He took me ring shopping in March and then proposed in May, he was able to make it to my Graduation and then was deployed in June. He was gone for 8 months but still made it home in time for Christmas again! March 2nd, just two months and a few days after he came home we were sealed for time and all eternity in the Manti, Ut Temple. We barley knew each other but I am eternally thankful that we made the choice!

Our wedding day, outside the Manti Temple!

Our first year of Marriage started in Kanarraville Ut were we lived in a tiny trailer and learned A LOT about one another! Everyone says the first year of Marriage is hard, I didn't believe them until a few months after our first anniversary. I didn't realize how not perfect it was until it got immensely better! Moving in with someone that you don't know very well and trying to make a marriage work is some seriously hard work! Austin's job had him gone basically all summer, we made the best out of the time we had together but as soon as the fire season was over he was ALWAYS home. I was so used to him being gone that I didn't know what to do with all the time we had together, its pretty safe to say that it was hard to get used to in the beginning, but we did and things started to get better. 

Our first place together! 

Austin and I moved into my parents basement on our first Anniversary for a few different reasons. Austin was trying to get a school date for a medical course that the military offers out of Fort Bragg and the next fire season was about to start. It was hard for me to live alone the first fire season we had so I was glad to be moving back, we also didn't know when the Army was going to give Austin a school date and didn't want to be stuck in a rent contract. So back to the parents we went! Again, I didn't realize how not perfect it was until after the fact. Hind sight is always 20/20! Even tho our marriage hasn't been "perfect" doesn't mean I would change a single thing about it! Every disagreement or tear shed has taught us so many different things about each other, it has made our marriage into what it is today and I believe its so close to perfect that I don't see how it could get any better!! Like I said tho, hind sight is 20/20 and I'm positive its only going to get better! 

Our first Anniversary photo's! 

Austin and I have since moved out of my parents basement and are living right down the road from them. We finally got a locked in date to move to North Carolina and by some crazy stroke of luck we found this place that fits our time schedule perfectly. Same with Austin's job! After the crappy fire season he had last summer he found a new job and once again we were so blessed because the company is leaving Cedar the same time we are moving! So many things have been working in our favor and I know that its not luck, its blessings! The biggest reason we are able to make our marriage work is because we pick our battles, not everything is worth disagreeing over. I didn't learn that until recently, I'm really glad that I have because my marriage has changed into something so amazing! I'm so lucky to be growing up and turning into the person I want to be with Austin, he is such an amazing example of selflessness and pure love. He is going to be such a great daddy to our future children, he is already such an awesome husband and such a great friend to have sticking up for me and always taking my side. Two years of marriage, so many things learned and its only just begun! Here's to another year, I look forward to what we have planned for the next few years! Hold on babe, cause we are about to grow up some more! I love you so much Austin, I'm lucky to have you! Happy Anniversary!!