Happy Anniversary

Three years ago I walked down the aisle to the man of my dreams and married him! I can honestly say that I love, honor and respect Shaun more deeply today than the day I said, "I do"! We have had our fair share of ups and downs, bumps and bruises, highs and lows over the past few years. We have hurt each other, supported one another, had a child, lost a sibling, struggled with infertility, gotten pregnant with our second little blessing, changed jobs, gone back to graduate school, fought, forgiven and through it all we have first an foremost sought God's will for us and our family.

My older brother Johnny told me something years ago that forever changed the way I looked at relationships. He told me that one of God's greatest gifts, other than His perfect salvation, was the gift of another one of his children to share our lives with. Someone who you could grow with physically, emotionally and most importantly spiritually. I don't think that I ever really understood what Johnny was trying to share with me until I started dating Shaun. All the sudden here was this man in my life who filled a place in my heart that I didn't even know was empty. God made it very clear to me shortly after Shaun and I started dating that Shaun was the man He desired me to be with. Shaun pushes me to be a better person, to be a better wife and a better mother. But most importantly Shaun pushes me to grow deeper in my relationship with Christ and desperately wants to seek that relationship with me. I am forever grateful for the man that Shaun is and for the Father that he is to our beautiful daughter Lillian (and precious Baby Hays)!

Happy Anniversary Shaun! I love you more with every passing day and promise to always strive to love you in the way that God asks for me to. Thank you for everything that you do for our family, and for every sacrifice you make for us.

This was our one year anniversary. We were the exhausted parents of a ten day old baby!