The Husband Who Keeps Me Alive

It's been a long, frustrating, hard month of January. I have felt like my brain explodes every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Which is not a very pleasant feeling.

It wasn't anything big, just a bunch of small things. Things like: Kisses goodnight, a greeting every morning of a smile followed by "Hey Beautiful!", and opening my doors. It's things like that, that keep me going. He just makes me feel like I'm worth something, even when I'm failing at so much (especially math). I can honestly say that he is my Superman and I am the damsel in much distress. He is the breath to my life and the air in my lungs. I breathe for him, I wake for him, I live for him. It just makes me so thankful to a Heavenly Father who loves me so much to put a man like Husband on the earth at the same time as me. How can someone so wonderful exist, and what did I do to deserve him?

Today we talked about plans for the future. I don't know where it will take us, but I do know that whatever happens, it will be wonderful with him by my side.


Annie T.

Completely Shameless

Husband and I are now distributors of Xango. You may be thinking, "Why?" Well, I shall tell you:

Husband's mom works at Xango, and is kind of a big deal there too. She gives us free bottles of Xango all the time. Husband even used to work there. So, for Christmas my AMAZING mother-in-law gave me their new skin-care line called GLIMPSE. Pretty much its the best thing to ever touch my face. I've seen great improvement in such little time, I'm amazed. Well, all of their products are the same way; natural, amazing, good for you, healthy, non-toxic, and uplifting. The company is run really well, and I thought that since not a lot of people know about it, I could help others see the "light". I'm sold on their products and am super excited to start working!

Annie T.

P.S. Although this is not meant to be an advertisement, you may take it as such if you like. And that is why it is completely shameless.

One of Many

Husband, I love you.

Dishes and Broken Drawers

I was reading the past few days in the scriptures about charity and as I read stuff like "Charity envieth not.. seeketh not her own...rejoiceth not in iniquitey". I was filled with an overwhelming feeling of gratitude as events over the past couple of days came to my mind where my Annie had shown me that she not only possesses all of those qualities but also had demonstrated them in acts of charity towards me. I couldn't believe that I had ever done anything good enough to be able to have someone so amazing as Annie be my Wife, she does so much for me and I felt like all I was giving back in return was a selfish attitude. I immediately fell to my knees and prayed that I would somehow be able to ease any burden she had been feeling as a result of my selfishness. Well yesterday I had some time between classes and work and I had unfortunately already forgotten about my prayer but Heavenly Father didn't. We had a pretty sizable pile of dishes from the day before and Britni had also told me about how one of her chest of drawers was broken. So I did the dishes and fixed the drawer and had just enough time to make it to work. I really didn't think anything of it until I came home and my wife told me that she had had a pretty stressful day and was so worried about two things when she got home which was the dishes and the drawers and for her to have her come home and have them be taken care of was huge for her. That, to me, tells me that God answers prayers, I know that I was inspired to do that for her and that it was in answer to my desire to just show my Wife I love her. I really wasn't anything I did, it was just God wanting to show my wife that He loves her and I was able to be the one to do that as her husband.

-Superman-

sweet nothings

Husband tends to talk in his sleep and move around. So two nights ago I woke up to him kissing my collarbone and saying, "I wanted her to know how amazing she was, but she wouldn't believe me." It was so cute! (I knew he was asleep because two seconds later he made some funny noises and laughed robotically.) I then reached out and rested my hand on his chest. He took my hand in his and held on to it while tracing my arm with his other hand. It was too perfect. I kissed him gently on the lips and was surprised to find it had woken him up. He grinned and rolled over onto his side. "What are you doing?" he mused.
"Just kissing you." I replied. "Is that okay?"
He nodded.
"Can I do it again?"
He smiled and nodded his head. "Uh-huh."
It was the perfect treat for a sick girl.

Then, last night, I came home from rehearsal feeling terrible. I wanted to crawl under a rock and die. But Husband, being my night in shining armor, got me medicine and helped me into bed. We needed some things from the store but Husband stayed with me, promising he wouldn't leave until I fell asleep. He started telling me a story about a mushroom to calm me down. His voice was like velvet to my soul. We fell asleep in each others arms.

Simply perfect.

To me, this is what life is all about.

-Annie T.-

those days

you know those days, those days when you wake up and the alarm clock seems to have come to soon, when your eyes can't seem to stay open. Those days when you go to get a bowl of cereal and the milk is all gone, or your sitting on the john without any TP. The days when your car doesn't want to start or there just seems to be way too much snow or ice on your windshield and you forgot your gloves. The days where traffic seems to never go forward and or when you have to call up the costumer service line for a mistake they made and wait endlessly to that annoying music just to have them tell you that they are sorry and there is nothing that they can do. Those days where you aren't sick enough to stay home and are just sick enough to feel miserable. Those days where the vending machine eats your money, your assignment is a day late, there is test that you completely forgot about, or all there is on TV is Baseball or Reruns.

Those days where after all this happens and you come home, see her beautiful smile and you hold her so tight you don't want to let go and where the touch of her lips against yours seems to melt away everything in your mind and you know there is no place in the world you would rather be than there at that time with her. those days where you would have gone through a million times worse if it meant you got to have that moment with her...

Yeah, I love those days too.....

-SUPERMAN-

Done and Done

What do you do on a Monday night when you have the next Tuesday off of work? Go camping with your spouse of course! Husband and I went up American Fork Canyon and enjoyed each others company in the great outdoors. We told stories about our childhood, camping trips, and when I woke up in the wee hours of the mourning because of a really crappy dream, Husband comforted me and listened to my terrible dream. It was awesome. We even had our milk attacked by a giant raccoon! Superman was so cute and the entire night he had a hard time sleeping because he was worried about my safety. Every time I coughed he would sit up and ask if I was alright. After about 10 min of him making sure I was okay and me just wanting to sleep, and the raccoon attack, I think that's when he grabbed the ax and slept with it by his side. He had all these ideas of how to beat up a bear if it came by. He just wanted me safe. So cute!
I love Husband very much and I LOVED going camping with him. We'll definitely have to do it again.

Annie Tangerine