4 Long Years

Todd and I recently celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. We have been joking about all the trials and tribulations we have had since being married. Actually, life has been surprisingly easy and wonderful. I am sure that is part of what attracted me to Todd initially. Life has always been fun and laid back with Todd. I love that I don't have to worry about drama in our relationship besides the random occurence of being a little tired and not communicating our best.

To celebrate our anniversary, we have had a fun week celebrating and doing the things that we love. On our honeymoon we went to Maine and went rafting on the Penobscot and spent some time in Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. We were quite ambitious on the trip and went rafting, hiking, biking, and sea kayaking. It was truly a fun adventerous trip. We didn't exactly plan to do all these things this week, but we did. We went rafting last weekend, hiking on Wednesday, we took turns mountain biking on Thursday, and went sea kayaking on Friday for our anniversary date. It was really a great week and we enjoyed a bottle of wine that my friend Denise gave us for a wedding present. Denise, it was great!

On our sea kayaking trip we put in at a boat dock in Troutdale on the Columbia river and paddled up river and went up the Sandy river a little ways. It was pretty hard work paddling up river. The Columbia has a good current going. It was nice to be able to go up the Sandy and see some amazing bird wildlife. It is actually designated as a bird sanctuary. We saw a blue heron, an osprey with a fish in his mouth, and some unattractive crows eating a bird on the beach. We almost didn't go on the trip because it was raining a little bit. I am so glad we did because we have been really wanting to use our sea kayaks that we got this past year and we were able to explore an area that you can really only see by sea kayak. We also had a great week just playing with Meadow and bringing her along on some of our adventures. I am so glad that she enjoys coming along hiking and seeing the world like we do. I also feel blessed that Todd and I are able to spend so much one on one time together. I definitely feel that it keeps our relationship strong and helps us be better parents for Meadow.

I hope our family life continues to be this easy and fun.