Reflection

Today is my fourth wedding anniversary. Four years ago on a beautiful autumn afternoon my husband and I tied the knot. It was a beautiful wedding! We started dated over 10 years ago. I was a young college student and he was a fresh college grad deciding what he wanted to do next. Now we have a beautiful little boy, own a home, both have great (stressful) careers and have a great extended family. A lot has changed in 10 years.

While reflecting on all of this I realized that I was also about 60 lbs lighter when we first started dating. I was about 160 a wore a size 12. I am currently in the 220's (ouch!!) and I wear a 18. Hubby has gained too, but not nearly as much. He was even commenting on some old pictures about how young we looked and how much thinner we were. He was actually so thin at one point during the academy that he was underweight and sickly looking. We just got to comfortable with a lazy lifestyle and now we are paying the price - especially me! We are both trying to better ourselves now so that we have more energy for our crazy little man and so that we can live to see our grandchildren.

This weekend will hopefully mark the start the effort of both of us a couple embarking on a lifetime of fitness. We are doing the EyeQ half-marathon together. This will be my second half and his first. I hope he gets bit by the race bug and want to train for more events in the future. I really need to company out on the trails and I hope this will encourage him to join me.