Armando and I are officially already into our second year of marriage. The first year was definitely very challenging with moving to England, meeting my side of the family for the first time and bringing our second child into the world. The most challenging part was having to be separated for those few months Armando was in El Salvador and I was in England.
But now, in our second year, we moved back to El Salvador as a family of four. We bought our first home together and even made our family more whole with a new little puppy. As always it's brought it's up's and down's but this year has definitely brought more up's. We're not taking our lives and time together for granted because we learnt how it felt to be apart.
It's quite hard to find decent English cards here and Armando's family isn't big on giving cards for events but I am so I always try to find a nice one. The card that I found had some lovely words in, not 100% relevent but enough to make me smile and pass it along to the one I love.
"For My Husband on our anniversary
This life we share, it may be less than perfect, but it's got one big thing going for it -
It's ours.
It's yours and mine, and it's made of all the moments we've lived together, all the memories that no one shares but us.
It's ours, and it simply wouldn't be without our commitment to what we began together all those years ago.
It's ours and, perfect or not, it's something to be grateful for, something I'm happy I share with you"
I got Armando a t-shirt and new lego phone case and he got me a mirror and a bag.
To celebrate our day we went out for a meal to a place called Ruby Tuesday's that we hadn't been to before, it was really nice.
Last year I decided to start a tradition of taking a picture of us holding the previous year's picture. It's kind of awkward asking someone to take a picture of us while we're holding a photo frame but I think it's worth it because the pictures turn out to look quite nice.
