Happy 4 Years!

This post is a day late, but yesterday was our four year anniversary! Sadly, I spent the evening wearing my happy teacher smile for open house, greeting this year's batch of spawn and their parents, but Craig and I celebrated tonight with a long, decadent meal at The Melting Pot. Luckily, our anniversary happened just as I'm exiting the first trimester, so I have been feeling almost normal again and could actually enjoy it.




I can't believe it's been four years...as I was clicking through a file of pictures, I came across wedding shower photos, including one of the cake at my Illinois wedding shower, which bore the message, "God's Blessings on Craig and Melissa." We certainly have been blessed. :o)

Exhausted after the ceremony...and we still have the reception ahead of us!


Just your typical wedding picture.


Cutting cake #1 at the little cake-and-punch reception at the church right after the ceremony. Big dinner and dancing reception was later that night. (Yes, I know that my cake is covered in hideous pastel flowers. There's a story there, believe me....)



This weekend I'll post a photo of the 14-week belly. I've just about blown up in the past week, totally out of the blue. It's actually pretty funny, because I'll glance at myself in the mirror and for a split second think, "Holy crap, I have GOT to do something about that gut!" Then I remember why it's there in the first place and I'm like, "Woohoo! Nevermind! No crunches for me!" It's going to be quite the wake-up call come January when the kid is out and the gut remains, and I have to attempt to tone it up again. UGH.