The love of my life...

(This photo was taken Sophomore year homecoming 2002)

Justin Adam Bruce, what a wonderful man : )

I love him so incredibly much. I never thought love could be the way we experience it together. You see romance in movies of being rediculously happy and being swept off your feet. Well that romance is normally found in the first few months, or years. But we are on year 10 and it hasn't changed a bit. I don't know what it is, maybe because we are still young or because we have watched other relationships fail, but we always make sure, every single day, that we show eachother how much we love one another.

I would say that we easily tell eachother we love eachother at least 10 times a day, but probably alot more than that. We say it periodically, and we also say it whenever we say goodbye, whether that is in person or on the phone. Some people may think it's silly but if you love someone why would you ever hesitate or cap the number of times you tell them?

We also call eachother, all the time. If I am at work or Justin is at work we call eachother at least twice while gone, but normally Justin calls me more than that : ) I love hearing from him and telling eachother stories about customers or people we are working with. We always have so much to talk about!

Our connection runs very deep. It would be hard to suprise one another with anything because we always want to tell eachother everything, and the second it happens! lol. I have heard so many stories about special ways women have told their husband they are pregnant, I couldn't even imagine suprising Justin about the baby, the second I found out, he found out, lol.

It is going to be interesting revolving our life around someone else. As much as I am excited to have this little Peanut of ours, it will be hard adjusting to life around Peanut, instead of life around Justin.

I am so lucky to have married such a wonderful man, and an amazing best friend. He makes me laugh harder than anyone in this world. He knows what I like, what I love. He knows how to make me feel so extremely special, all the time. We always have fun together, we love going on new adventures. Life is just amazing.

This past year has been so crazy and hectic and we are still so strong. It hasn't put pressure on us as a couple, or husband and wife for that matter. For the last year we have been building a house, I received a promotion at work, Justins company went out of business, Justin got hired at Boeing, and we are having a baby. If there was ever a time to stress out and lash out at one another, it would be now. But our relationship has just gotten better and better. I have heard a few times now, "If you really want to test a marriage, build a house together", well we are doing just that and it has only made us stronger and closer together.