Our Vows, One Year Later.

Just realized that I never shared our vows from the wedding on here. So, today, the first anniversary of our marriage, I am sharing our vows with my followers and friends who weren't able to see us say them in person.

Stephen's vow to me: 

Betsy, you are my best friend. I promise to laugh and cry with you. 

I will love you when we are together and when we are apart. 

I promise to support your dreams and to respect our differences 

and to love you and be by your side through all the days of our lives. 

I promise to always be your biggest fan and your partner in crime. 

I promise to create and support a family with you, 

in a household filled with laughter, patience, understanding and love. 

I vow not just to grow old together, but to grow together. 

I will love you faithfully through the difficult and easy times. 

What may come, I will always be there, each one believing that love never dies. 

As I have given you my hand to hold, so I give you my life to keep. 

I promise before God and these witnesses to be your loving and faithful husband. 

I will be by your side to share with you your happiness and success, 

and to comfort you in times of sorrow and disappointment. 

As your husband, I will seek to be open and honest with you, 

to forgive you as Christ has forgiven me 

and to always remind you of the Lords plans and promises. 

I devote my love and my life to you from this day forward until the end of time. 

My vow to him: 

Stephen, today I take you as my best friend, my partner in crime and my love forever. 

In the presence of God, our family and our friends, and with His help 

I promise to be your faithful partner in sickness and in health, in joy as well as sorrow. 

I promise to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness 

and to have the patience that love demands. 

To speak when words are needed 

and share the silence when they are not. 

I promise to fiercely love you, in all your forms, now and forever. 

I promise to be faithful and true to you in mind, body and spirit; 

and to be a source of comfort and encouragement for you. 

I will be forgiving, but not complacent. 

I promise to love you, and no matter what challenges might try to carry us apart,

we will always find a way back to each other. 

Stephen, today is our 365th day of marriage, our first full year is officially done! Today I wanted to take the time to write you a short note. I want to thank you for putting up with my mood swings, the way I whine when I am sick. Thank you for adopting my children as your own. You choose to love them when you didn't have to, and that means more to me then you can possibly imagine. I love you so much and thank you for putting up with me. xoxox, your wife, Betsy