Baby Shopping - Part One

Dear Mommy to Be -

Yesterday we went to our neighbor's house to a sale. This sale was special because it had a lot of baby stuff and together we picked out the bedding and curtains for our babies room. I know that we are still in the process of preparing for this event, but I really enjoyed watching you look and think about what you wanted for this baby. I also know that we both have some fear about adding another child to our family, but somehow I sense that together we would make it just right and it would be like everything else - jsut perfect!

I love you so much and my love for you continues to grow. I look forward to what the future holds for us.

Your True Love

Our First Day of Spring

Dear Lady Bug,

This weekend we spent in the yard perparing our yard for summer. We bought mulch and cleaned out the flower beds. I just know that we are going to have many memories in this house and in this neighborhood. I can't wait to expereince all parts of the year in our new house. I know that in this house we will laugh and share in our wonderous times. I told this weekend "that you have made my dreams come true." I truly have dreamed about a day just like the day that we experienced. I really do love life with you.

Your Man Bug

Our New Big Screen TV

Dear Amazing,

I just wanted to drop you a note telling you how much I am thinking about you today.

This past weekend I was able to get our big screen up and running in the basement. I enjoyed watching Amazing Race and 24 with you on it, but more than that I enjoyed holding you in my arms on the couch.

You have really helped fulfill my every dream and I really love you for it. I just want you to know that I am always thinking about you and I love you more and more each day.

Your Biggest Fan

Our First Anniversary

Dear Showgirl,


It is really hard to believe that we have already been married for an entire year. The year has come and gone so quickly. It seems like just yesterday that we were standing on the beach in Fiji getting married. Now a year later we arranged for a week long trip to Las Vegas.

I enjoyed seeing the hotels, the strip, the lions, Ray Romono, but most of all I enjoyed spending the week with you. You are what is unforgettable and why I enjoy life.

I have learned a lot this past year and as I reflect upon our first year of marriage I am filled with great hope and optimism. I know that you are the love of my life and that I could spend the rest of my life exploring you and enjoying our friendship and our great love.

I love that we have so many memories and that we create new memories all the time. Vegas was not a bad place for our first anniversary but I am excited to discover where we will spend the next 49....

I love you, now as I have always....

Your 1 year old groom.

Our First Snowman!

Dear Frosty,

Here he is - our first snowman. I think he kind of grows on you after awhile. Your idea and my man power put this little guy together in a short period of time after a long weekend.

There I was out in the snow in my shorts and my flip flops. Then you had Carli join me and together we made....well we made a snowman with what we had. I think it is quite orginial and I am very proud of the little guy - I know that he is a snowman that we will always remember.

I want to thank you for encouraging me to have fun and to play! I really do enjoying laughing with you.

My Little Bobsledder

Dear Gold Medalist,

I just want you to know how much I enjoyed sledding with you and the kids yesterday. I think you were the best sledder that I have ever seen - you were definitely the most enthusiastic. I was surprised at your adventurous side - the way that in my arms you were willing to slide down the very big and steep hill in our own backyard. I am glad that you love me and that you trust me enough to do things like that.

I also enjoyed being the hero at the bottom of the hill and able to catch the kids when they slide down. You really do make me a hero and I love you for that.

This is my best sledding memory and I just want you to know that I love you because you help make me a kid again.

Ace

My Valentine

Dear Valentine,

I want to thank you for making this Valentine's Day such a special day. I enjoyed our "Snow Day" where we got to spend the entire day together. I enjoyed going out to a romantic dinner and being able to share some of our thoughts and feelings. And I greatly enjoyed our giving each other gifts. I have always loved about us that we know what to get each other and that sometimes we think so much alike.

But probably, the best gift, was your sweet card. I love the card that you picked, but even more the special words that you wrote to me. You are truly the love of my life.

Happy Valentines Day!

Our 24 Hour Weekend

Dear 24 Fan -

I just don't know what has happened to us. One day we were fine and the next day we were addicted. It is official - we are now "24" junkies. I just want you to know that I have enjoyed spending our last few weekends and weeks watching the past years of "24."

It really is my desire that I am your Jack Baurer and you are my Audrey Raines. I want to be your hero and I want to always protect you from the bad guys that are out there.

I really enjoy that you are my soulmate, even the shows that we watch.

Jack

Clue Weekend

Dear Ms. Scarlet -

I just wanted to write a small note telling you how much I enjoyed our family fun time weekend together. I enjoyed watching 24 with you and I enjoyed the many games of clue. You are very much a detective and I hope that you can detect my love for you.

I look forward to many more weekend like this one as we build our family and our lives together.

Col. Mustard

A New Beginning and a New Year

Deart New Year Resoultion -

This was a new year to remember. We didn't spend it in Times Square, or in a 70's resort in the mountains - we simplyt spent it in our new house. We watched a movie and played cards with the kids but we were a family and together we celebrated the new beginning of a new year. I look forward to all the new years that we will be able to share and the experiences that we will share in each of those years.

Here are my new year resolutions for us:
1. To kiss you every morning when I wake up.
2. To let you feel how much I love you and enjoy our relationship.
3. To be a gentle husband.
4. To forgive and forget the past

Here is looking to a new beginning in the new year!

A Christmas Day to Remember

Dear Christmas Elf -

I want to thank you for such a wonderful Christmas last night. I am talking about our special Christmas after the Christmas Eve service. I was deeply touched by your special gifts that you gave to me. I have always loved the gifts that remind you of us - things about hope, banannas, and your special memory of the works of Rodin. That was a very special gift - I love looking at it each morning. Also, the wondeful lovers fountain was a surprise, but you were right in knowing that I loved it.

However, you are the best gift that I received this Christmas. I love you and I love sharing everyday with you!

My Birthday

Dear Birthday Surprise -

Thank you for making my birthday special. You surprised me with my gift and with a nice a quiet dinner at the Mexican Resturant. I am so lucky to have you in my life. You are the very best and you really treat me like royalty.

I always do a lot of thinking around my birhtday. For some reason this year was a little different. I seemed to be more in the moment and not as reflective as usual. I think in many ways you have helped me to accomplish much of what I have always been striving for. Together we have found a beatuiful home - I home that we both have always dreamed. Because of you I have the joy of experiencing fatherhood. You have provided me with a family that I love and adore. You are my best friend and the one that I want to share all of my joys and sorrows with - I love you for that and you are the most beatuiful wife that any man could ever dream of....

I really do love you with all my heart and because of you every day is special!

Our Holiday Open House

Dear Tour Guide...



This past weekend we had our Christmas Open House. It may have been a bad time of the year to do this event, but with your energy and home making abilities you pulled it off with beauty and grace.

I enjoyed opening our house to our friends, neighbors, co-workers and our church family. I really do want our house to filled with activities and much laughter and joy.

I enjoyed most showing you off as my bride and the one that I can't live without. I look forward to developing better friends and being able to have others over.

Thank you for all your hard work. I really do love you and I appreciate all you do to help us to achieve a better life.

Happy 9 Month Anniversary...

Dear Bride -

I can't believe that it has already been 9 months since we stood on that deck in Fiji to say our I do's. Nine months ago at this time we had just been to the prayer mountain and had offered up our prayers for each other and for our marriage. That day really was the best day of my life! It is hard to believe that nine months have already passed - just think we have 49 years and 3 months yet to spend together. You truly are my one and only soul-mate!

I just want you to know that I love you with all my heart. I have enjoyed watching you and working with you over the past few months. I just can't wait to see what our future holds....

I love you now and always.

My Little Christmas Tree

Dear Tree Topper,

This past weekend we went and got our first tree for our new house. This has always been one of our favorite traditions, but this year was extra special because it was the very first tree for our new house and the first tree of our marriage. I was extra excited when I was able to put on our new "Hope" tree topper.

I didn't think that we would ever finish stringging on the lights. We have colored lights, musical lights, blinking lights, and bubble lights. This tree has lights.....

I love making traditions with you and I love sharing special days with my special someone. I love you because you bring light into my life!

Ace

Our New House - My Wish List

Dear Queen of my Castle -

I really enjoyed our few moments of christening the house this past weekend. With you this dream that I have always had has finally come true. The funny thing is that now I not only have a house but a home. Baby, I really have found my home with you.

I wanted to give you my part of my wish list for our new house. Enjoy.

• I wish that I will get to see my child's first steps in this home.
• I wish that every room will be filled with memories of laughter and happiness.
• I wish that we will have moments of warmth in every room like we did on the step to our living room the day that we moved in.
• I wish that will will make snow angels together here at the first snow.
• I wish that you will feel how much that you are the one that I want to come home to everynight.
• I wish that our beach room will remind us of all the fun and memories that we have at the ocean.
• I wish that lighthouse bathroom will remind you of our exploring the lighthouses at Nags Head and will help us always be explorers.
• I wish that our love will be expressed in each room with care.
• I wish that the deck will be filled with family and friends at various cookouts and friendly gatherings.
• I wish that our neighbors will become our friends for a lifetime.
• I wish that our new church will be started in our new home and our new neighborhood.
• I wish for this house to see our love grow and our appreciation deepen for each other and each new day.

I love you because you help my dreams become real.

Reasons that I am Thankful

Dear Ms. Thanksgiving,

Today we are celebrating Thanksgiving. I have enjoyed spending the last week sharing in our Thanksgiving with both your parents and mine. I will never forget our first Thanksgiving in our new house and our first dinner in our diningroom. Thank you for making our Thanksgiving so special.

Each Thanksgiving we share why we are thankful. Let me tell you the reasons that I am thankful this thanksgiving:
1. I am thankful that I have a beautiful women to share my life with.
2. I am thankful that in you I have found my soulmate.
3. I am thankful that you chose to be my bride.
4. I am thankful that we decided on Fiji as the place to get married.
5. I am thankful that you were there to share with me at my graduation.
6. I am thankful that we worked together to select and to decorate our new home.
7. I am thankful that in you I have found my best friend.
8. I am thankful for your faith.
9. I am thankful that you are such a great mother and wife.
10. I am thankful that we chose Teddie from the pound.
11. I am thankful for your love.
12. I am thankful for your grace and beauty.
13. I am thankful that we are best friends and that we can share with each other.
14. I am thankful that we are going to be married for 50 years.
15. I am thankful that you are you!

Thank you for sharing your life with me.....

Our Football Weekend

Dear Cheerleader -

You have a special way of creating memories and making my every day special days. This past weekend you really touched me with my "football package" for my psudo birthday. The gifts were special, but what was more special was the time and energy you put into developing and designing my package.

I really lovew your creativity and your flexibility. We accomplished a lot in a short period of time and I think it is safe to say that this past weekend was a weekend that we will always remember. I love that we can do things that come out of the blue as well as plan and organize our life. You offer me the best of both worlds.

Just know that I truly am your biggest fan!

I love you because of all the suprises that you offer...

Adventure Park USA

Dear Ms. Adventure -

I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed our date the other night. It is not very often that we get to stop the maddness of life and enjoy the simple things like a cookie or a game of minuature golf - but the other night was just simple and wonderful. It was nice to spend a couple of hours with each other and creating a special memory that was so much like other memories of the past.

You gift to me was amazing - I would say it might be the best gift I have ever received, although you have given me many great gfits through the years. You are my special love and my very best friend.

I am looking forward to the adventure we call life and sharing it with you. I love you because you help me to enjoy the simple things in life!

Ace

A Date Night at Dupont Circle

Dear Date -

I know we both have been extremely busy lately but I wanted to drop you a note to tell you how much I enjoyed our date night at Dupont Circle. I love exploring new places with you, new restruants, and new experiences. I love just hopping on a metro and finding a new place to share a memory.

You were a great date, by the way. Being able to share a pastry, and read a book and grab the food at a sidewalk cafe was a wonderful night on the town. Just so you know - you are the best date I have ever had.

I love you because together we share the simple pleasures of life.