My Love

To my Valentine:

I love you.  Today and every day. 

Thank you for growing up with me.  I'm so blessed to have met you as a 'kid' and to have grown into adulthood with you. 

Thank you for seeing my faults and loving me through them.  While you see my faults, you accept them and at the same time help me move past them and grow through them. 

Thank you for being a spiritual leader.  You lead our home and truly keep the "God first, family second, career third" model alive and active in our home. 

Thank you for making me feel beautiful.  Pretty, sick, silly, angry, annoyed...it doesn't matter.  You make me feel beautiful, special, loved, and everything in between. 

I'm blessed to call you mine.  I love looking across the room and seeing you all the while knowing that I get to spend every day for the rest of my life with you. 

This year, we embark on 11 years of being together.  If anyone had told me I would be even more intensely in love with you than when we met, I never would have believed them.  I thought I loved you 11 years ago.  I was so wrong.  I loved you then, but I love you even more now.  I cannot wait to see what our lifetime holds. 

Thank you for being you.  You are impulsive, silly, funny, and intense.  I love every  bit of you. You compliment me.  We are so different, but it only helps us grow.

Thank you for loving me.  I am not always easy to be around.  You have never made me feel anything but special and loved.

 Thank you for loving me through the tragedies.  We have faced two major heartbreaks and a life change together.  You have never faltered in your leading of our family and your faith in God that he had a plan.  I cannot put in to words what that has meant to me.  You help make it all okay.  You keep me grounded and you keep me faithful in knowing that God will take care of ALL things. 

Nicholas, I love you and am so thankful to have you.  Words cannot describe the wonderful life we have made together.  I am thankful for each and every day we have together.