A Little of Then. Thank God for Now!

We recently got back from our trip to Mexico...the weather was gorgeous, the food was excellent, and we had an amazing time, just the two of us!  I couldn't help but to remember back to the days when we were just Stevie Nicks and Travon (my nickname for Trav).  Before we were married, before we were homeowners, before we had Sasha, and before we became parents.  The good old days...nice to reflect on them and even nicer to look back and THANK GOD that we ended up where we are now!  For all of the bad decisions we made (especially me), it is nice to know that they all led us to this place...

Some of you may not know or remember, but Travis and I met up north.  I had just finished college at St. Ben's and a few of us were heading to Mara's cabin because, quite honestly, we didn't have jobs lined up and really didn't know what we would do with our lives now that college was over.  So, we packed up a car, stopped at the liquor store, and headed north to Fifty Lakes.  Next door to Mara's cabin was the Severson cabin, still partly under construction, but a beautiful lake home that I was sure was owned by someone very rich...haha!  There were a few guys at the cabin building a fence and as fate would have it, one of our guy friends knew the guy working next door, Travis.  What a small world.  He was from Minneapolis and had played hockey with a few of our guy friends from college.  The rest of the weekend I referred to him as my boyfriend!  Sadly, we didn't exchange phone numbers and I didn't know if I would hear from him again.  My friend, Annie, knew Travis and arranged for another get together in Minneapolis a few weeks later.  We hit it off and have been chasing after each other ever since!  Off and on for the first year, we just had some type of connection that couldn't keep us apart.  This is us, in 2004...about a year after we met!

It's so funny to see how YOUNG we look!  Trav hadn't even "filled out" yet...he was so skinny.  And me, well...I wasn't skinny!  Thankfully my days of bad skin and crazy colored eye shadows have come to a halt.  What was I thinking?!  

And for a bit of the now.  More mature (whew), more settled in our ways, much more responsible.  But we still have that old Stevie Nicks and Travon spark!  He makes me laugh...like crying tears, belly laugh.  And he drives me nuts sometimes.  Cleaning up after my mini tornado of a husband.  He STILL, after 6 years of living together, leaves drawers open after he takes clothes out of them, cupboard doors open after he grabs a plate, throws his jacket on the floor by the front door, leaves his clothes on the floor of the bathroom after a shower..............but it's him.  And those things that he does, those things are predictable and I like that about him.  He's a great daddy and a great, hard-working husband!  And hey, I'm sure I drive him plenty crazy!  

Here are a few pics from our trip to Mexico.  Oh, what a lovely trip it was!  I'm not usually one to show swimsuit pics, but I'm feeling comfortable in my own skin these days.  I'm not perfect and never will be!  I'm a wife and a mommy and more than anything, I'm proud that my body was able to grow a baby..........if that doesn't make you happy about your body, I don't know what will!  Little miracles!

Here's to hoping there is a speedy end to winter in our future!  I can't take much more of this cold and snow!  I want to be able to walk outside, to go to the park, and to bring Marley swimming at the cabin!

Happy Saturday!

xoxo

Stevie