Love Letters

This weekend Chad and I celebrated our 8 year wedding anniversary!  Surprisingly, I remembered how many years it was this time around, usually I am a year off!  It has become a pretty big joke between us.  Guess it just took me that long to figure it out!  Love you boo.

  We spent the evening eating at Ah-So, something we have done with each anniversary, and then at the local high school football game with the kids, where they loved seeing their babysitters and the band/cheerleaders perform!  After we tucked the kids in bed, we sat down for my absolute favorite part of our anniversary...our love letters.

 This is hands down the best idea we have ever been given {thank you Rae Lynn}, and one that I try to pass down to every one that I know that is getting married or is already married.  Honestly, one does not need to give gifts, the power of words are more incredible than anything I know.

With each year, we open a letter written from the previous year from our partner.  On our wedding night, we sat down together and wrote our first letter to each other on fancy Hawaiian paper provided to us by our hotel {that was our first and probably our last time we wrote on fancy paper, now we write on whatever is laying around and seal it in a used envelope from a card someone else gave}!  On our one year anniversary we opened those first letters from each other.  When we were done wiping away the tears from our eyes {me for sure} we wrote our next letters to be opened on year two.  We have done this every year since.  I cry each year, and each year I go back and read old letters to each other.  It is a reflection of how we have grown together, as a couple and as a family.  I believe that it is never too late to start these letters. I am so grateful we have done them from our start.

Spreading my love of our letters this week at some of my favorite places.