Anniversary {Cake}

Today Nick and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary.

We have actually been celebrating since Saturday when I drove up to Athens to get our traditional anniversary cakes from Cecelia Villaveces.  They are ridiculously good and I'm sure ridiculously bad for you. They made our wedding cake (lemon with butter cream) and groom's cake (chocolate mocha) and we have tried to make it a yearly tradition of getting a small cake of each to celebrate with...we missed the last two years (Andy was born two years ago and last year we had just completed the hillbilly house switch and learned I was pregnant with Charlie)...not as easy as it used to be driving 1.5 hours each way for cake.  But this year I was able to make the trip for cake, have lunch with a sweet college friend, and pick up some C-list furniture for the boys room on the way home. A handful of birds and one stone I suppose!

As of tonight these cakes no longer exist.

#8 and counting!

I sure do love that boy...I think I knew it before I even met him.  I may have stalked him a bit the summer before 9th grade when I got my hands on a yearbook from his middle school from a girl on my basketball team.  All I knew was that he was cute and we were going to be in the same homeroom based on our last names...and we were.  And I loved him from the first day of 9th grade...we almost instantly became best friends.  I think it actually had something to do with the fact I had a few RBIs in my softball game and my name was on the announcements and that (thank you Lord) gave us something to talk about. Yay for softball!

He truly is my better half and I cannot tell you all the ways and reasons why I love him.  He is an amazing person, friend, husband, and father. He makes me laugh and smile for every reason and for no reason.  Take this email exchange from today:

Me: Dinner tonight? Twisted Taco?
Him: Ok...Date Night?
Me: Yep but I just had a chemical peel on my face...might be hard to look at.  Need to go somewhere dark.
Him: You're never hard to look at...   Love you!

I seriously melted when I read that and melted again when I just typed it.

I love you Babe!  Happy Anniversary!