evaleigh joy, i love you

Dear Evaleigh,

In a matter of days I will hold you in my arms for the first time. I have imagined that moment countless times but I know that nothing has prepared me for how I am really going to feel.  I have been holding you in my body for the past 9 months and it has been a privileged to share this body with you.  I have been honored to give you the things you have needed to grow and prepare your self to come in to this world.  

I have reveled in every kick, roll, and hiccup (those of which have been in the thousands).  Thank you for all of the little reminders that you are here and you are a living being.  I am going to miss having you all to myself, I hope your daddy will share you with me, because he can't wait to get his hands on you.  

I am so hopeful for our future together as mother and daughter.  You are about to make me something I have never been before.  Thank you for giving me this sacred role.  I think that our bond is already something pretty special and I can't wait for it to keep growing.  I am so excited to look in to your little face for the first time and have your daddy by my side.  We made you with a lot of love.  I want to examine every millimeter of you and talk about who you look like. We have such a great life ahead.  Thank you for being my daughter and giving me more joy than I ever thought possible.  I love you and I'll be seeing you soon.

love,

your mother

One.

One year of my life has been spent loving and serving the most wonderful man I have ever met.

A year has come and gone.

I feel overwhelmed with emotions as I think of what this first year of marriage has brought us.  (I have already cried about it this morning.)  

I can truly say that this has been the best year of my life.  

I am so thankful to God for putting John and I together. My life has been enriched and full of joy.  

I have loved becoming a wife.  

It is a sacred role that I deem most important.

Our first year of marriage was full of many smiles, laughs, and tears.  It was full of intimate moments laced with love and tenderness.  It was full of honesty, hilarious moments, and lots of food and music.  Most of it was spent in apartment 133 at Wood Creek, though we have said goodbye to that place now.  I will never forget living there and feeling that sense of, "Look what we've created together.  Everything in here belongs to us.  We built a home together."

I have loved learning how to share my life and soul with another.  I have given this man all that I have and it is something that I never regret, not even for a moment.

I feel that I have been given the divine task of being a wife to John Murphy and I know that I am the one who got a better deal.

I am enlightened each day with his patience, selflessness, and kindness towards me.

A part of me is so sad to close the chapter of our first year together.  

I know that the future has a thousand glorious surprises for us.

My heart is so full it may burst.

Happy one year anniversary to the man who made me a wife.

my heart's like a kick drum

I woke up this morning after a glorious night's slumber to a feeling of complete overwhelming gratitude for that little husband of mine.

I really have no way to describe it but I will say that marriage is by far the most rewarding and positive thing I have ever done. Companionship is such a marvelous thing.

John Murphy here are a list of things I love about you right now at this moment in our lives:

-i love it when you call me "wife of my life"

-i love it when i am cooking in the kitchen and you come up behind me and give me a smooch and say, "emmm, that smells good."

-i love that you get so concerned for the well being of my feet and you have now told me that i am no longer to wear a certain pair of flats.  if i do, you said you will not go out in public with me.

-i love it when we have surges of energy and we wrestle like 10 year olds and some one always ends up getting hurt.  i swear i don't think we will ever grow up.

-i love when you get cranky when you get sleepy.

-i love how excited you get when its so so late and i give us permission to watch one more episode of LOST.

-i love all of the hilarious quirky things that you say. i wish i could remember every single one of them.

-i love when we talk about all of the baby names that we love. please let me name one of our sons marion. please.  i promise i won't let the other kids call him marion the fairy-on.

Although I am sitting here alone in the living room in our little apartment with a rug burn on my knee from our wrestling match earlier, I couldn't be filled with more love.  You are taking a nap at 9 o'clock at night and all I want to do is wake you up so we can play some more.  Ready or not, here I come.

love,

wife of your life

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The Butt Part

Today I was inspired.  

Sometimes when I see things I like, I am too impatient to wait to try them, wait, actually most of all of the time.  

So, today I had to have the butt part.

The first time I tried this scandalous hair do, in front of John, was on our honeymoon.  Although he still was kind and said he found me irresistible I later found out that he hates the aforementioned butt part.  I thought it was chic and classic and he just thought it was a little "90's gone bad", "ugly", "so last season."  You get the point...

Here is us on our honeymoon ship in our skinnier years.  John sporting a purple button up and me with *the butt part*. Dun dun dun.

So, tonight we went on a datsies to a cute little Italian place.  It's so hip, maybe you've heard of it?  Macaroni Grill.  It's a magical place where they have globe lights draped across the ceiling, table clothes you can write on, and when you have to tinkle you go to the bathroom and there is a voice that teaches you Italian while you do your business.

We wrote love letters to each other on the tables.

*John made a punny...butt.

We handcrafted our own pasta.  We sipped on Mango Italian Sodas.  We had Chocolate Praline Cake and Dolce Nutella.  I had to unbutton my pants before we left.  

(John says he likes it now)

LONG LIVE THE BUTT PART!

p.s.we have new BUTTons. Grab one!