Monday - It's hard to believe that seven years ago, Brandon and I were married. It was a beautiful day and could not have turned out any better. We spent the night at
Opryland hotel, the same place where Brandon had proposed and now that hotel is being remodeled after extensive flood damage.
The past seven years have been filled with many things!
- Five different houses with rentals in between! We also lived with Brandon's parents for a few months.
- I'm not sure how many cars/trucks :)
- Two beautiful children, Britton and Paityn
- Teaching the 7
th/8
th grade boys in Sunday school and now the seniors
- Vacations to Canada, Florida and a cruise
- Amazing friendships (Thank you for the hot dog anniversary dinner Jeff and Abbey!)
- Disaster relief after the hurricane
- Working with On the Go and our church youth group
- Brandon working in construction, framing, general contracting, real estate and fitness instructor
- Completing my nurse practitioner degree
Tuesday
Brandon - I'm proud of who you are and what you strive to be. You are an amazing father and a great husband. I am blessed to be your wife and look forward to the coming years.
I know that we have our differences but I also know that through them all, our marriage gets stronger.
Thank you for who you are and all that you give me. God has blessed us beyond what we deserve and I pray that He will continue to strengthen our marriage, our children and that we will be examples for Him.
I love you, even if you forgot our anniversary :)
After a great service at church, we came home for lunch. Everyone came over to join us so we had a house full again!
Paityn was worn out from the nursery and slept for quite a long time.
We spent quite a bit of time just talking and looking through pictures.
It's great just spending time together and catching up.
We're really looking forward to our trip to Canada in July for the reunion. It'll be great to see our family and just spend some time together.
Each time Britton has gone to Canada we've made a build a bear with voice recording inside. This is the last one we made and we actually have a recording from Oma Versteeg, Opa and Oma, and dad. Paityn was amazed by it!
We're growing up!
Paityn got lots of attention!
and so did Britton. He loved having everyone over and was careful to thank God for each one of them during his nightly prayers. I'm wondering how long his prayer will be at our family reunion if he thanks God for everyone there!
It was great seeing and spending some time with Auntie Janice. When we visit, we're always at a reunion or another family members house so it was nice to just spend time with her.
Tonight we went to Panera for a small dinner. We had a great day/weekend just spending time together! I'm so glad that my grandparents were able to make the trip to see us.
When we got home, 
