The pleasure’s all mine, cause we have seen good times…it’s our anniversary. Oh Tony! Toni! Tone! you melt me each and every time.

This man, my husband, has made everything in my life better. For five wonderful years he has made good days great, okay ones better, and horrible days manageable. Here is a snip-it of our story. One fall morning we noticed one another on the UCI campus (I know, ZOT ZOT) bus on our way to Econ class. This bus was late, so punctual little me freaked. I had to sit in the back of class, which was completely uncharacteristic of my usual routine. That was when fate struck. This skinny cute fellow caught my eyes as he walked in through the heavy double doors of the enormous Social Science lecture hall. We both stared and for some reason I didn’t even hesitate to offer him the seat next to me (how forward of me- I know!). Instead of listening intently, which I desperately needed to for this class, I felt the intense urge to begin to chat and ask him typical first date questions. I don’t know what had gotten into me that morning. We exchanged giggles and digits without once writing a note from the professor’s lecture. Days after I invited him over for a study session and that’s where I realized we were on our way to becoming best friends. Yup, nothing romantic was headed our way for a while. The next couple of years we remained good friends. I studied abroad while we kept it real with Yahoo’s Instant Messenger (Ahhh! That was way back in the day…..before unlimited texting, before texting). After I returned, I knew there was a some sort of void space in my life, but I couldn’t pin point exactly what it was. Then, I realized we hadn’t been talking as much and I missed my friend. The spring after I graduated we let cupid work a little magic and we gave it a shot at a real relationship. Five years, two doggies, one toddler and one newborn on it’s way later…we know we truly are made for each other. He and I, are soul mates, best friends, and the loves of each other’s lives. As my brainiac math man would like to say, we go together like real and imaginary (Complex numbers that is). Ha! Thank you God for blessing us with this beautiful life. Happy Anniversary schmookie! I love you forever and a day!!!

Oh and I’m a little late on this post. These photos were taken in October of this past year for his 3oth birthday, but I’ve been a little busy if you haven’t noticed. Please don’t think we are some obsessed ’90s freaks because there are a bunch of old school props in here. It is just that we thought it would only be appropriate to show some old school gear since he had a 90’s boy themed party, yes with a Lego cake, Tetris photo booth, and Pog playing station and all.