20 Years!

We just celebrated our 20th anniversary.  I have now been married longer than I was single.  It seems like such a long time, but I can't remember much without my husband in it, now.

 I am so glad that our religion teaches that marriages are forever.  I have a friend who just got engaged to the father of her baby.  I asked her if she was excited, because she hasn't always said the best things about this guy.  She said, "yeah,  you know we won't get married for a year at least.  We are just going to try and see how it goes and if we mesh with our parenting style and stuff."  I thought that was the saddest things I had ever heard.  If you don't go into a marriage saying, "This is my forever guy!"  what hope do you have? There have been plenty of times we just didn't like each other, times we didn't agree on things, times that we just weren't nice to each other.  How easy it would have been, if we had started out saying, "Let's see how this plays out," to say, "to heck with this!"  When you start out saying, "this is forever"  "to heck with this" doesn't come up too often!
We were suppose to be in Utah while Mom and Dad watched the kids and we went to the Anniversary Inn.  I even had the room picked out- Ok, narrowed down.  We had also talked about a cruise or something.  In the end, we were at Wolf lodge making up for the kids lost trip to see their Grandparents and cousins.  Then we drove home and I went to a YM/YW party.  The next day Rob did offer to take me out to dinner.  While we were there, he surprised me with this beautiful ring.

It is a blue diamond and it's actually bigger than my wedding ring.  The silly flash made the other diamond look yellow.  He said, it was so I could choose what I wanted to wear that day, to match my outfit!  It is getting sized right now.  Emma tells me I have bony fingers.  I always thought they were long and elegant looking- well if I had nice fingernails to go with them, which I don't!
I am so happy to be married to this guy!  He is definitely my forever guy!

Muddy Buddies

I signed up with a bunch of ladies to do a mud run in August.

For every wave start time they chose a group to be the captains and they took you through some stretches.  This was the Captain America group.  Ours were the All Business group and they were wearing cut off khakis and shirts and ties.  Everyone had to do toe touches, because everybody loves a good toe touch- or reverse toe touch!!

None of them showed up, so my husband signed up, because in his words, "I don't want some random guy helping you over the obstacles."

You had to go through the mud pit around mile 1.5 and then again at the very end.

Well, I am proud to say, no one helped me over any obstacles although a random guy did help me not slide down a very muddy hill too fast!  We had a blast and I have decided that these are the kinds of races I want to train for now.

Definitely an after shot!

They are so much fun and short!

They had a little muddy gully to wash up in afterwards- it did help despite how muddy it was itself!

No more 26.2 mile runs- at least not for awhile!!

I had a sore on one of my feet, so I just wrapped both of them afterwards, because you donate your muddy shoes at the end of the race.  Some company fixes them up and gives them to 3rd world countries.  I had forgotten another set of shoes, so I just wore my wrap.  Don't you love my pretty sparkly pink toes, though!

I had forgotten to take off my rings and I really didn't want one of them to catch on a cargo net and rip all the meat off my bony finger, so at the starting line I hooked my rings onto my watch.  They stayed on!

I so love that this is something I can do with my husband.  I really think that you need to find something that you like to do together.  It really bring you closer to each other.  We have spent hours together that we might not have, if it hadn't been for a race that we were training to do.  I can't wait for the next fun race, but until then, I am training for a triathlon that I am doing with a friend other than my husband.

Showing the Love

Generally Valentine's day is not a big thing at our house, but this year I read something about a guy sending his wife pictures of hearts, etc every day and I thought that would be a good idea, especially since my guy has been sick for a couple of weeks.  We don't always do the best when the other is sick, especially if it's for more than a day or two.  We realize this about ourselves and we are trying to get better!  So in the spirit of trying to be better I have made an effort to text Rob a heart every day.  These are some of the ones I have sent so far:

I try to always send a quick message along with it, but I am not very creative.  I will have to do some more reading and come up with some good quotes or something!