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I have felt for a long time now that I am absolutely in the right place for me. I am madly in love with my husband, and we have just celebrated our 3rd month anniversary. Some people laugh that we keep track, well that I keep track, but I have never been so proud of something in my life and I celebrate it every chance I get. I'm sure after our year anniversary, we will keep the celebration down to a annual thing, at least I wont admit it. We are very much enjoying the married life. Our life together is filled with learning, loving, and enjoying each other and becoming one unit, which others seem to continuously tell us is admired. We've learned to respect and love each other for our sometime neurotic, crazy, and unique selves, and we've transformed into two people that really want the best for each other. I'm not in any way shape of form trying to gloat, because anyone who knows me, knows that isn't my style. I am just trying to express that I truly love my husband, and am so very grateful to be given the opportunity to have found him and experienced such highs and such lows in our relationship that has made us realize that not another person on this earth is a person we would rather be with, but one another. Another thing to add is the love we have for our family. I have decided to create this blog mainly for our family which remains miles and miles (or kilometers, which every region you are in) away and whom also carry our hearts with them everyday. We are living approximately 12 hours away from the rest of the people we love, and miss them everyday, even though they sometimes think otherwise. Our families have always been a huge influence in our lives. Especially since my husband is a twin. It is undeniably hard for him to live such a distance away from him. I can hear it in his voice when he talks about the lack of communication he has with his twin. It sometimes makes me sad to think about how much not only he misses his family, but how much he wishes he was closer to his brother. Our families are truly the loves of our lives, and speaking for myself, as much as I miss my family, in a strange way, I feel as if being away for so long (I moved to college at 17, and have been at least 5 hours away since) has made me 100% closer to my family that ever before. I am now not only a daughter to my parents, or a sister to my siblings, but I am truly a friend to all of them. I don't exactly know if this happens to everyone once they reach a certain age or stage of adulthood, but I haven't seen the same in the lives of my friends which remain in the same local areas of their families. So for that, I could honestly say, I am very grateful for my distance. As my mother always told me, absence makes the heart grow fonder. And please don't think that before I moved away, I didn't love my family, because trust me, I did. It's being away thats made me grow into the woman I am, and has made me realize that my family is not only my family, but they are these amazing people, with such different lives and roles that just sister, brother, mom, and dad. They are friends who I admire and love just as much, and it makes the time we do spend together not wasted or taken for granted. It is honest conversations about our lives and what is going on in them, it is expressing our love as much as we can without being jaded by it, and enjoying time together. The hub and I have recently decided on probably moving to Seattle for him to start practicing his profession. And I add this to this discussion of family because it is even further away from the rest of our family. But it makes me hopeful, and not pessimistic. We are certain our families will remain as close, if not closer with our distance. Since I am writing this blog, and not my husband I want to also add that I am so incredibly blessed to have married into a family which I admire, respect and love. I know that my better half feels the same towards my family. I just wanted to add this because I have heard such stories through my own friends, horror stories in fact about their in-laws and it truly makes me sad, and really appreciate what our families share. I had felt accepted into the family since the moment I first walked into their home, and have felt nothing but love from that moment on. I respect each and every person within my husbands family, and they are each as unique and amazing as my husband himself. For that I will not call them my in-laws since those words have such negative connotation, but they are from this moment on my in-loves, since they are my relatives through love. I truly love his family, and they had become part of my family too, long before we said "I do". I know this blog, my first ever blog has become this sort of mush-a-palooza of emotions, but they are the true roots of who I am and I how I feel. My husband and family are truly what make me who I am and make me the person who gets up in the morning, and I believe it is important that they know how I feel. It's been a while since I've sat down and spilled out my thoughts. I just really want to tell my family how I feel about them. I want to start with my brother who I am so proud of. My brother who has been so successful in his life and has now welcomed into the world one of the most beautiful babies into the world, and I am excited to see him as a father. You are truly an amazing person, and I am glad that we've gotten the chance to really get to know each other. That's weird to say, since we had shared a bathroom for about 15 years and spent endless time together, but I have recently learned more about who you are within the last year, and have realized you are really someone I love to talk to and hang out with. I wanted to tell my older sister that you are a woman I truly admire and have become an amazing mother. I wish we would get the opportunity to spend more time together. You are one of the most beautiful souls I have ever known and everyone close to you knows that they can count on you. You would do anything for your family, and for that I thank you. To my other older sister, I just want to tell you how thankful I am that we became so close. Without a doubt you are truly one of the best friends I could ever have. You make me so angry, and then so happy two minutes later. I wish you could get off your butt and use the potential you have to be the amazing person you are. I sometimes feel like your limiting yourself because it seems like to much work, but you can do such great things, you don't even realize. I have faith in you though. Your a really great person also. Behind your shell there is such a sweetheart who will stand up for those she loves and you are so generous. I'm so glad we got over ourselves and found a beautiful friendship. To my mom, you are without a doubt the greatest woman I have ever met. I don't know if I have much to say other than that. You are amazing, you will do anything within your power to make sure that your family is happy. Sometimes I wish you would think of yourself first. Your one of the strongest women I have ever met. I love you and everything that you are. And finally, my dad. My father is the most successful man I have ever met. I really just need to say, thank you. You've worked so hard my whole life to give our family an amazing life. When I say your successful, I do not only mean financially. You have raised us to appreciate the things we have, you've raised a family that loves one another undeniably, and your marriage has been filled with unconditional love and is admired by many, you've seen more places around the world than more people could even dream of. I truly love and look up to you. You are a true role model. I cannot tell of you enough, but I love you. I think I will give your eyes a break... To everyone I mentioned, I love you. We love you. And will talk to you soon. I set up this blog so everyone can be updated with our lives since we're so far. Keep checking in to see if we post anything!