Goin' to the chapel

Yesterday was our wedding anniversary. Six years of bliss! We celebrated by grilling out some filet mignon steaks from our half a cow (plus my yummy oven potatoes and some broccoli), and I made a cheesecake w/ some strawberry sauce to go w/ it.

We also watched the rehearsal dinner video that Knocker put together for us and 2 different "versions" of our wedding. One taken by Julia Conley, my sister-in-law Laura's mother (Knocker's mother-in-law) and one taken by friends of the Schneider family, the Weningers. It was good to have 2 different tapes since they were at different angles (literally during the ceremony and figuratively w/ 1 focused more on Gaskins people and the other more Schneider-centric).

We haven't watched these in a few years, at least since Noah was born. He has seen our wedding photos including my bridal portrait and we've kinda told him what it means to be married, but I doubt he really understood very much. So he and Claire watched the videos w/ us and was very interested in it all. We explained things along the way (who people were, what they were doing, what they were talking about) and when we were thru he wanted to see it all again!

He then announced he was getting married and went out on the screened porch to do so. He kept talking about the cheesecake they would eat (he really likes cheesecake and we told him how delicious our wedding cake was). At one point he married Claire and kissed her, then he married Katie, his cousin. I guess that was an absentee wedding. And an illegal one as I believe it is not lawful to marry your sister or even your cousin. We don't live in West Virginia, ya know.

Since our wedding, some things have stayed the same yet there have also been some big changes in our lives. This morning we had 2 sweet little children bound into our room to awaken us at 7am. I certainly don't remember that happening 6 years ago. I enjoyed our time as just a couple, but looking back, I think life is sweeter now w/ our 2-going-on-3 blessings from God.