A Ski Trip to Celebrate Eight Years!

The very first post on this blog was a picture from our seventh anniversary trip to Hilton Head last March. I absolutely cannot believe how quickly this year has passed. Greg and I now have been married eight years, officially half with and half without our Connor. We were talking this week how slowly the first four years went by, and how quickly these last four went by. He is getting so big and we love him so much. It is so amazing how much better life is with him around.

Greg and I got married over Spring Break when I was still in college. It's so cool that our anniversary always falls on Spring Break, so we try to do a little get away. While we were away, we talked about the past eight years. We agreed the hardest was the first year, trying to figure out how to live with each other, and even after 5 years of dating, learning new things that we didn't know about the other. The easiest was our third year, we found out we were pregnant, took our trip out west which was a trip of a lifetime, started getting ready for Connor,bought our house, and two months before our 4th anniversary, we celebrated the arrival of our little man. It was a good year. Year five was REALLY hard! Trying to adjust our lives to us both working with a small child was stressful and extremely hard. It was a whole new world neither of us were ready for! It would have been easy to give up when things got hard, especially in this day in time. Thankfully God has put family and friends in our lives to encourage us and to help us through.

If you know us, you know we love to travel and we have seen A LOT in eight years. One thing we hadn't done in a LONG time was snow skiing, so we headed up to Winterplace Ski Resort in West Virginia for our anniversary. This is where I skied growing up, so it was so much fun to go back. We had a great time and came home in one piece, and with the Adkins family, that is a good, good thing! We never know what is going to happen with us!

Greg joked that he rented out the whole resort for our anniversary because there was absolutely no one there. It was warm, no one was around, and it was perfect! Each time we go away, I remember how much I love my husband, and how thankful I am that I married my best friend in the whole world.