First things first, we need to work on our love story.  More than once in the past year, couples have engaged in the “tell us how you fell in love” game, and our story always ends up being the lamest in the group.  We even had to elaborate on our wedding website.  I am thinking a damsel in distress/knight in armor type story, what do you think?

The second year had been incredible, so amazingly complicated and exciting that all it has done is made me more convinced that you and I can handle anything.  I can’t image spending more time with another person and loving it so much.  I am not sure it is humanly possible.  In the same way, it has been a really hard year for me, and I know my personal metamorphosis has been trying — for you, for me, for us.  I may not always act like the blushing bride I was two years ago

We have spent so much time this year doing things that we LOVE, fulfilling lifelong dreams, spending time with friends and family, supporting each other as we try to achieve dreams.  One of my favorite memories is from the bush in Botswana, just soaking in all the natural beauty surrounding me, surrendering to the sounds of birds, lions, monkeys, hippos and elephants in their natural habitat, feeling a wave of excitement roll over me, and thinking to myself “I want to remember this forever, this feeling, the sounds, the smells, the excitements, the unbearable feeling of joy…” and seeing you next to me and knowing that my life will be filled with moments just like that.  Having you as my partner in all the different emotional highs and lows has given me courage and faith.

But it has not been easy, not all fun and games and laughter and joy, there have been tears and anger and frustration and consoling each other when one of us needed it.  And although love-at-first-sight may exist and have all its glory and wonder, I am so happy that our relationship is built on sweat and tears and resilience and HARD work.  We made an effort to wake up every morning next to each other and put in the effort to make another day as good as the last, eventhough I am sure some mornings we would rather just push the other one off the bed.

And I am proud of this achievement, especially after this incredible but trying year, where I have felt that there are so many varied emotions in my heart, and there are even more languages revolving in my head, and that I am often not able to communicate how I feel easily to people, but when it comes to you, I always am able to find the words to let you know how much I care for you.

Happy anniversary.  Two years!

Love,

m.