Birthdays

So today my wonderful husband turned 22. Its crazy the years that are flying by now. They come to us and then leave so quickly. I remember when I first met Jon in band class my freshman year, and I remember when he first told me when his birthday was. To help me remember he told me a fun little fact, which is that he shares his birthday with Dr. Seuss.

 It was helpful at the time because five years ago who knew that I would end up wanting to share the rest of my life with him. At the time all I had on my mind was Friday nights out with friends and him. He sure is one special person in my life. I count my blessings for having found him and at such a young age.

We both have dreams and the best part is that our dreams and our futures involve each other. He wants to be so much more and we hear all the time "your young, be patient" but we really are not the patient kind of people. I mean look at where we are already. We have a beautiful daughter, a wonderful marriage and a home that we love. We did this all when most everyone said we could not.

We had doubters that believed that our relationship would not last, we were just teens, we had people say we were just dumb kids who got pregnant and wont make it, we had people that said that our marriage would not last, that we are too young to know what love is, but here we are still, we have lost friends who we will miss forever and gained others who we hope to always have with us, Its just life and Jon and I have definitely lived it. And the best part is that with us being so young, we have so much more time to experience everything else.

Some people go their whole lives not having everything, but in my book we will, because we not only want it, but we work hard and achieve everything that we are meant to be. Right now I am in school to become a teacher and my wonderful husband is standing right behind me, holding me up because right now my own belief in myself is hard to come by.

I only hope that I can be as good for him when it is his turn to return to college. His lifelong dream has been to join the Highway patrol and we have been working so hard together to help him try out and apply for different law enforcement agencies.

But once he is on it, he does not want to stop there. He wants to return to school and at least get a bachelors degree in criminal justice.

Then maybe some day go on to be Lieutenant or join the FBI. Big dreams, but I know in my heart we will be there some day!