Yesterday, November 7th, marked 4 years of marriage for the most amazing husband and I!
It is crazy to think 4 years ago we were at our wedding, standing in a reception line smiling til our cheeks couldn't take it anymore, dancing to our wedding song, smearing cake in each others faces and then driving off in Sean's truck and having every semi from Blackfoot to Idaho Falls honk at us because of our lovely decorated truck! Feels like yesterday and at the same time FOREVER ago! In four short years we have moved away from our hometowns, had a BABY!, gone through all sorts of trails, had many more moments of happiness and joy and most important of all we have become the bestest of friends and have fallen even more in love and are now Eternal Companions!!
Waiting 4 years to go to the temple and be sealed together was not what we had originally planned but with a few trials and obstacles it's how it ended up happening. But I am thankful for the trails and bumps we have had because with out them I don't think our relationship would be even close to the same.
Just over a year ago there was a knock on our door and it was most definitely not who we would be expecting at the door. It was the Missionaries. With out any hesitation we welcomed them right into our home. We had lived in our home for just over 2 years at the time and had NEVER had a missionary knock on our door. Brittnie had just got her call for her mission and Jade was almost half way through serving his mission so I was so excited to have 2 missionaries sitting in our house because I had such a special place in my heart for missionaries at that time and still do. They sat and visited with us for a bit and then wanted to leave us with a message. The message was about eternal families, families can be together forever. They played a Mormon Message for us and then read a couple scriptures. I remember looking over at Sean and just seeing tears running down his cheeks. For the first time in a LONG time the spirit was in our home. These two missionaries had NO idea what they had just done for our family and knew little about us. It was an experience I have never had before but from it I have gained the strongest testimony that Heavenly Father personally knows us and our needs!! I have NO doubts about it, those missionaries had inspiration to knock on door number 30 because our family needed to be visited and needed the spirit in our home! Neither Sean or I had been to church in awhile because Sean worked Sundays and I never had our records moved to our Driggs ward and never made the effort to move them or attend. We both knew we were not raising our family the way we should be and both knew there was something missing in our family. We knew we were not keeping our promise to each other that we would go to the temple together a year after we were married. After the missionaries left we had our records moved to our Driggs ward and with help of our family and neighbors we were back to going to church. It was such a good feeling of getting up and taking my little family to church on Sunday and starting our week out by being in the right place. Life was going great for us and we were headed in a good direction and it felt good! Then come May, Sean made a job switch and we thought we had been blessed for Sean to have this job opportunity and felt like we were finally going in the direction we needed to be. And quickly we found out that was not the way life was going to go for us. It was a trial for Sean & I and it was hard on our family and marriage but we quickly came to realization that it was more of a blessing than a trial. We were quickly blessed with Sean working and being able to have Sundays off all summer long. So now it was no longer just Andi & I going to church and Sean making it when he could, we were all getting up and going to church together as a family! We have such a great Ward & Bishop and were called to the Primary and LOVE all 13 of our 5/6 year olds that we get to teach every Sunday. We have spent the most of this last year preparing and doing what we needed to do to take our family to the temple. We finally were able to seal our family together for Eternity on our 4th Anniversary!!
The spirit was SO strong as we knelt at the alter together! And when Andi walked in in her beautiful white dress the day just couldn't get any better! It is definitely a moment I will always remember and hold in my heart! It was a day that just can't be beat!
This last year has given me such a new outlook and attitude about life. It's not easy to not let things get in the way but we just have to always remember the truly important things in life and try to avoid the things that don't bring such true happiness into our lives.
I am so proud of Sean & I and seriously fell 1,000,000,000,000,000 times more in love with that guy yesterday! There is just nothing like being in the temple with your best friend and knowing you will be able to spend forever with him now NO MATTER WHAT!! It's such a comfort. It makes me want to be such a better wife, mother and person.
We are so lucky to have such special people in our lives that support us in everything! Our day was even more special because of those we got to share it with. I am SO beyond thankful for all of those that took time to be there with us and to support us!
I think November 7, 2013 can go down in the books as our BEST day ever!
