1 year!

Oh to know a love like this.
A love so precious.
A love so dear.
To love someone who has captured your every thought.
Someone who takes your breath away.
Someone who knows you better than you know yourself.
Someone who is caring and loving.
Someone who makes you feel beautiful.
Someone whos love is undyingly faithful.
Someome who wants the best for you.
Someone whos dreams are to make your dreams come true.
Someone who takes the time to listen and I mean really listen.
Someone who loves deeper with every passing day.
Someone who speaks Truth into youir life, so you not only know he loves you, but that he cares about your soul and your eternity.
Someone who is always looking for a way to encourage you, even in the small ways.
Someone who understands you.
Someone whos hands fit yours perfectly.
Someone whos kisses linger.
Someone who is quick to forgive.
Someone whos selfless and passionate about others.
Someone who seeks others above himself.
Someone whom I love.
Oh to know a love like this.

This love is deep and true.
This love is wonderful.
This love sweeps me off my feet and carries me away.
This love is hopeful.
This love...
Between you and me...
This love is beautiful.

My heart is twisting in all sorts of crazy ways just thinking about it, but mostly it is throbbing with love...  This first year with my dearly beloved Joshua is hard to put into words.  We have already gone through our highs and lows.  We have learned how to extend grace and forgiveness.  We've had to walk through losing a job, losing a special little loved one in our family, also losing a baby of our own through a miscarriage, and some other various trials.  We have also learned how to pray more earnestly, to really trust and hope in the Lord.  We have had our faith tested and we have had our love tested.  But I must say that the truly most wonderful thing about all of this...Is that I get to go through all of it with Josh.  This amazing man, is my everything!

So now to you, my Dear,
I just wanted to say thank you!  Thank you for teaching me what it really means to love.  Thank you for who you are, for I would really not want you any other way.  Thank you for your sweet love.  Thank you for your heart and the way you explode with joy.  Thank you for taking me under your arm and protecting me, even charishing me.  Thank you for all the songs you sing to me and for me(I love this!).  Thank you for praying for me.  Thank you for teaching me and sharing with me the love you have for our Savior.  Thank you for the encouragement you are to me, for all the countless ways you have cheered me on.  Thank you for all the ways that you have saved me from myself, espessially through my pride and self-pity and for drawing these sins out in my life so that I might be more of a blessing to God, you and the others around me.  Thank you for the ways you help out around the house and the the long crazy hours you work to help provide.  Thank you for wanting lots of kids and wanting to be the best daddy in the world.;) (I love hearing you talk about our babies...and the things you want to do with them and for them.)  Lastly...Thank you for pursuing me and never giving up on me.  Thank you for asking me to be your girlfriend on June 13th, 2008.  Thank you for asking me to be your wife on May 20th, 2009.  Thank you for marrying me and making me the happiest girl in the world on January, 9th 2010.  And Thank you for all the years that we will celebrate together from here on out!(Atleast 80 more?)  Joshua, there are so many things that I want to thank you for, because I know I haven't thanked you enough in our first year of marriage.  I pray that I can be half the things for you, that you are for me.  I love you and will forever and always! 

(I posted this one day early, so I don't have to write it on our anniversary.)