All About Liv: Two Years Ago

Warning: this post is really long, as I have been working on it for a while. I will be sappy so bear with me or move on.

Today is my two-year wedding anniversary. Wow, how my life has changed in just over two years. I graduated law school, began a full-time job, got married, and had a beautiful baby girl. My life is as near perfect as it could be (without winnng the lottery so I could quit said job and stay home with the beautiful baby girl). Our wedding is one of the best memories of my life. It was a wonderful party. There was no stress. No doubt. Nothing but love and happiness.

My only regret regarding our wedding was that the only date available at the location of our choice was on the Saturday of a Texas football game. I was unable to watch any of the game before the wedding, but knew that Sean would find a way. The above photo is of me asking him the score during the ceremony.

I have posted here some of the words from our wedding ceremony along with photos from the day. I put lots of thought and planning into the perfect combination of prayers, readings, and messages. This is the first time I have read the words again since the ceremony. I was thrilled with the result then. And I am as thrilled with them today as I was two years ago.

Prayer

Bless this marriage, O God, as Sean and Rhonda begin their journey down the road of life together.

We don't know what lies ahead for the road turns and bends.

But help them to make the best of whatever comes their way.

Help them to hug each other often...laugh a lot, talk more, and argue less.

Help them to continue to enjoy each other as they did when they first met.

Help them to realize that nothing nor no one is perfect and to look for the good in all things and all people including themselves.

Help them to respect each other's likes and dislikes, opinion and beliefs, hopes and dreams and fears even though they may not always understand them.
Help them to learn from each other and to help each other to grow mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Help them to realize that there is design and purpose in their lives as in the world and no matter what happens to them they will hold on to each other and know that things have a way of working out for the good.

Help them to create for their children a peaceful, stable home of love as a foundation on which they can build their lives.

But most of all, dear God, help them to keep lit the torch of love' that they now share in their hearts so that by their loving example they may pass on the light of love to their children and to their children's children forever. Amen.

Vows
I come here today to join my life to yours before this company. In their presence I pledge to be true to you to respect you, and to grow with you through the years. Time may pass, fortune may smile, trials may come; no matter what we may encounter together, I vow here that this love will be my only love. I will make my home in your heart from this day forward.

Reading--"Love" by Robert Croft

I love you, not for what you are, but for what
I am when I am with you. I love you, not
only for what you have made of yourself, but
for what you are making of me. I love
you for the part of me that you bring out, I love
you for putting your hand into my heaped-up
heart and passing over all the foolish, weak
things that you can’t help dimly seeing there,
and for drawing out into the lights all the
beautiful belongings that no one else had
looked quite far enough to find. I love you
because you are helping me to make of the
lumber of my life not a tavern but a temple;
out of the works of my every day, not a
reproach, but a song. I love you because
you have done more than any creed could
have done to make me good, and more
than any fate could have done to make
me happy. You have done it without
a touch, without a word, without a sign.
you have done it by being yourself
perhaps that is what being in love means, after all.