9 Years on

This week marks 9 years that B and I have been dating. We meet when I was 16 and he had just turned 18. We met at a friends birthday dinner however we didn't say a word to each other that night but couldn't stop talking after we met up a few days later. He was pretty shy back then but I remember him sitting across the table from me rocking his band shirt and beanie. I thought he was really cute because he tucked a napkin into his top so that the pile of tomato sauce on his plate wouldn't get his top dirty.  It wasn't long after that we started dating and for a few years we were just a normal teenage couple, it took a while for us to move in together, I think we had been dating for about 5 years at that point but we were always together anyway, whether it was at each others houses or going away to Napier or Lake Taupo for the weekends.
I knew for a long time that I wanted to marry this boy but B being B took his sweet time in asking me but when he did 6 and half years after we met he sure did it right. A beautiful beach in our favourite holiday town, Napier, where he wondered off down a beach and wrote "Will you marry me" in the sand. Just over a year later we were married in the most beautiful day of our lives. After that we kind of didn't stop achieving things. Got pregnant and bought our first home within months of each other and then had our gorgeous baby girl.
Seeing B grow from this long haired, car crazy boy that I started dating to this wonderful, caring father and husband always brings a tear to my eyes. He has grown and changed so much in these last 9 years and we as a couple have too. Long gone are the drunken Friday nights(I think he misses those a little bit) they have made way for snuggling on the couch, watching the baby drift off to sleep. I must admit some days I miss how care free we were but having my high school sweetheart kiss me and our baby goodbye every morning is the best feeling in the world. He is working on a little
 project as an anniversary present for me that I cant wait to share with you all.

Here's a brief look at the last 9 years...

Our Honeymoon in Rarotonga

Our wedding day