After 6 Years of Marriage...

• We pretty much know that only one of us is going to buy a card on a special occasion. And we are okay with this. This time it was Kyle :)
• We have completely different ideas on handling major purchases. I like to save, save, save and then pay cash and never look back, just so it isn't hanging over our head. Kyle prefers to finance with a 0% interest rate in order to build good credit at every possible opportunity. We have learned to compromise.
• He likes to go ahead and fork out the money to buy everything, including croutons (not kidding), in bulk to be sure we NEVER run out of something important. I am way to frugal (cheap), and I'll buy the smallest container of something and swing through the Dollar General if we get in a tight.
• We both seem to have this instinct in the middle of the night on which one of us needs to get up with a crying child. Without speaking, we both know whose night it is or who needs sleep the most. This also applies to early wake up calls. After 2 babies in 15 months, this instinct just comes with the territory.
• We still cannot make a decision. Period. We are both plagued with indecisiveness. I hope we can resolve this problem in the next 6 years.
• Kyle can impersonate my wake up routine with precision... it's hilarious. But he wouldn't dare laugh at me while it's going on.
• We both know that Kyle is the master of making coffee. It just turns out better when he makes it.
• "we are on the same team" is our motto. A week or so before Brantlee was born, Kyle told me that no matter how frustrated we got at each other, we had to remember those words. And he was so right.
• we have seen through our many failed attempts to be a good spouse or parent that marriages just don't work without our Heavenly Father as the center of all we do. Slowly but surely, we are being molded into what He wants us to be.

We actually celebrated our 6th anniverary last weekend with a quick trip to the coast. We ate at Ruth's Chris, and it was beyond fabulous! Because Kyle made the reservations online, he specified that it was our anniversary. Our table had little confetti hearts sprinkled all over it. It made me laugh a little. Then our dessert came out looking like this...

it made my day!

We also spent some quality time on Mississippi's crystal clear beaches ;) And when I say quality, I mean we were the only people on the beach for miles. We sat out there and talked and just enjoyed the quietness. That's right, just us and the jelly fish and stingray.

Have you ever???!!