My Valentines Tulips

Matt and I have had 13 Valentines Days together (isn't that wild). All of those 13 years I have received tulips. The reason being: Our very first Valentines Matt gave me a precious moments figure. It was a little boy holding tulips behind his back and puckering his lips. The saying was "the best tu-lips in town." This figurine was sitting in a pot of tulips.

Upon first glance, these flowers look like normal tulips...

However, this year's tulips are the prettiest thing I have ever seen!!! The blooms are unbelieveable...

The sad part that I admit with shame is that at first I was a little disappointed because of the predictability of the gift. God is teaching me even through this that sometimes unexpected things come out of the expected gift. Matt is such a wonderful husband and father and I am so lucky to have someone who never forgets me and always remembers our wonderful memories.

My favorite

This is my absolute most favorite picture! It is, of course, right after Kinley was born. This Valentine's I told them they could pick a sweetheart to give a gift to. They picked each other all by themselves!!!

Where we are now...

So I am very new to the idea of blogging but I think this will be very fun (if I ever make time to keep up with it). My first realization is that I need to take more pictures as I have no recent pictures of Matt and I and I have no pictures since Christmas. Time gets away from me. Hopefully, through this I will be more aware of how the time has past.

My two wonderful kids are 5 and 3 are are so much fun (not all of the time but most of the time). My most favorite things about the stages they are in right now is that (1) Kinley calls any day other than today "laster day" just like her brother used to do and (2) that Brady's passion is making people laugh (this is not always at the best times or places but reflecting on his passion for finding laughter gives me such pride in him). They truly adore each other. While still getting on each other's nerves sometimes, they have so much fun together and are best friends.

Matt and I are working towards are 11th year of marriage; I can't believe it has been that long. While we do not have a perfect marriage (as no marriage is perfect), I believe with God's help, we do make the perfect couple. No other person is more perfectly made for me than Matt. We both have discussed on several occasions that the things we couldn't be more opposite on are the things we need each other the most on, so that we can find balance.

That is a summary of where we are now in our mostly perfect life.