In Eight Years

Today is our 8 year wedding anniversary. August 17th, 2002 is another day that changed my life. With the bizarrity of time, I'm not even sure if that sounds too long or too short.

• 8 years
• 96 months
  
• 3 moves
• 2 houses
  
• 3 children in 5.2 years
  
• 2 lawn mowers
• 1 CPA license
  
• 6 cars
• 32 months of nursing and counting
  
• 5,000,000 diapers (I guess I could add and counting to most of these!)
  
• 5 hours of sleep a night, on average
• 600 arguments about whose turn it is to wake up early tomorrow
  
• 180 pounds gained and lost (some of that is pregnancy!)
• 3 wedding rings (Lawrence wore a one size too small Titanium ring for 2 year before we got a bigger size!)
  
• 5 vacations counting our honeymoon
• 2 day care centers
• 1 preschool
• 3 nannies
• 2 Au Pairs
• 27 Ear Infections
• 9 Bouts of Croup
  
• 56 Pediatrician visits
• 40,000 to do lists
• 4 digital cameras
• 2 computers
  
• 200,000 pictures taken
  
• 1 revisit to our wedding spot (on a foggy day, so you couldn't see the mountains!)
• 1 broken foot
• 1 lost job
• Visited 13 states (Lawr is disappointed that we don't get to count the states before we were married!)
  
• 3 Buckeye national championships (we were in AZ for the time they WON it!)
• 2 Hood to Coast runs (Lawrence as the runner, me as the child care + loving wife!)
• 13 - 5Ks - both of us
  
• 3 Romp to Stomps (Snoeshowing for Breast Cancer)
• 14 weddings
  
• lots of wonderful friends made over the years
• countless blessings
  
• and 2 people still in love!