Happy Anniversary

Dear Erin,

It has been 13 years since I asked you to be my girlfriend, one day on that little hill side overlooking the Ballard Locks, and 8 years since we committed the rest of our lives to each other. In that time we both have grown and changed but I love you more now than I ever have. There are a thousand little things about you that make you just perfect. I love your laugh, and your freckles. I love how you always challenge me, and attempt to keep me on the straight and narrow. You bring out the best in me, and want me to be a better person. You teach me new things all the time. You are amazing in so many little ways I cannot count them all.
Eight years seems like a long time, but I feel we are still at the beginning. So much has changed over these years, that I wonder what will be in store for us in the next 8, or 16, or 24. Two houses, two kids (well soon) two master's degrees, and of course just two arguments in 8 years is a pretty good start. Only God knows what the future may hold for us. We've made some tough decisions, but always made them together. We've always put family first, and that will pay off not in wealth or security, but in the love between us, our family and God.
Erin I will always love you.

Happy Anniversary,

Jeffery

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