Lucky 13

1996
(ACU grub ~ The night we said "I love you" for the first time.)

Today Wade & I celebrate 13 years of marriage.  Little did we know how true our shirts from this Grub back in 1996 would be.  The Dish did run away with the Spoon.  And by run away, I mean get married, get jobs, buy a house in the suburbs, have 2 kids and a dog.  :)

We had an official Date Night to celebrate over the weekend and for tonight, we stayed at home with the boys feasting on pizza and wedding cake for dessert.  Tonight was the first time we played our wedding video for Tate.  Hilarious (and embarrassing) on so many levels.

For some reason I thought we were 23 when we got married, but by the looks of the video, it appears as though we were only 12.  Oh my, we were kids!

Today as we celebrate 13 years, I'm thankful for the good, the bad, the ugly, and the wonderful that all add up together to make what is called a marriage.  Ours is far from perfect, but it's one full of determination, grace, teamwork, love, mistakes, forgiveness, fun, lost keys, bad cooking, and craziness.

The last 13 years have been more than I could've ever imagined, and I can't wait to see what the next 50 hold!

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(artwork in background is titled "Snowmobiles" and is an original Tate Strzinek

Tateisms

Another post in the series of Tateisms.  This kid cracks me up and seriously keeps us on our toes.

• During a bedtime prayer, "Be with me at school and help me to be like Luke Skywalker. Not Darth Vader."

• All of a sudden, Tate had a very concerned look on his face and said to me, "You have a triangle on your face."  I asked if he meant my nose was in the shape of a triangle.  "No, there is a triangle on top of your nose." Once I glanced in the mirror, I realized this triangle he saw was in fact three lovely wrinkle lines.  Thank you, son.

• After telling him that he was about to make bad choices.  His reply was, "It's because God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are with someone else right now."

• In a conversation with me, Wade, and Tate, Wade was saying that I was like a princess.  Tate's matter-of-fact response, "No she's just a mom."

• "Pillows are funny because they make people's hair crazy at night."

• I was telling Tate that the marker was getting all over his shirt.  His response, "But Clorox 2 can make it clean again."

• "Wow, Mom, you are impressive.  Wait, I don't really know what that word means."

• And there are countless quotes that can not be put on the world wide web that have to do with body parts.  Oh my word...these conversations test my humor and maturity levels.