Birthday Blessings :)

My handsome husband, my other half, my soul mate, my friend, my lover, my calm turns the big 33 today!  I can't express how blessed I feel to share this special day with him.  We haven't been married long, and in fact our relationship was quite short.  Here's THAT story...

Four years ago I began my teaching career at a middle school that was a couple of hours away from my family.  Now anyone who knows me knows just how close I am with my family.  I accepted the position and moved to an apartment with my sweet Mollie dog, where I would teach 6th graders about math for the next year.  At the end of the school year I had accepted another year where I was, scared that if I didn't I wouldn't get offered a job closer to home (plus I loved my school).  Three weeks before school started I was called in to interview for a job that was 15 minutes from home.  I went in for the interview, not sure how it would turn out.  I was offered the position the very next day!  My teacher friends know just how hard it is to find a teaching position when there are so many awesome competitors out there!  I called my previous school and let them know of my decision.  Because they are incredible people they let me out of my contract and I signed on with my current school.  It was here that I would meet my future husband.

My first year at BCMS was pretty smooth.  My team was close, I met some very welcoming people, and my students were awesome!  It wasn't until my second year that my teammate, DH, started opening up more.  We started our friendship by playing pranks on each other, which the kids LOVED!  These playful games turned into conversations.  Long conversations.  These conversations turned into texts.  And more texts.  Finally, DH expressed how he felt and our relationship became existent.

Although our dating time was short, we both knew immediately what we had found was the storybook romance.  We both fell.  We fell hard.  We had spent so much time talking and laughing and knowing each other outside of school and yet everything we knew was what we each wanted.  Now back to the present...

This man I call my husband has shown me that I have so much to be grateful for.  I count my blessings often and today is no less.  I am thankful that I get to spend the day sharing celebrations with this amazing man whom I love more then words.  The man that will someday (hopefully soon) be the father of my child(ren).  Happy Birthday babe!  And here's to many more :)