Five years ago tomorrow Ben showed up at my house in Bakersfield at 3AM and told me “Move now or we are going to fall apart.”

I moved, we still almost fell apart, and then I got on some good medicine and now, five years later, I’m closer to sane than ever. We still have good days and we still have some bad ones. I’m still a bit crazy and he’s still the rock of stability I cling to when I feel my outer wall start to crumble a bit. He’s SUCH AN AMAZING father to a tween that doesn’t make it easy a lot of the time.

I read blogs from that time and I think, “Who the hell IS that girl!?” I had no clue where I was going or where I needed to be. Now, we’re married, we just bought our first home together, I am in the place I was searching for endlessly back then, HERE is where I was always meant to be.

Also, he’s as hot as ever and he still makes me laugh (at MYSELF) every single day.

Happy Kinda Anniversary, Ben. (k)

PS - That’s a picture of us in Pismo about five years ago taken by the awesome Miss Lisa.

So, I’ve been really BAD about getting photos up but it PAINS me to have to take a bunch of pictures of BOXES in the NEW HOUSE because that’s not what I want it’s “first impression” to be.

I know I need to just get over it. Meh. We are nearing the finish line with the unpaking though so hopefully there will be some soon.

INSTEAD! VIDEO*! YAY!

We wanted Hans to get to go outside to smell around but neither one of us was comortable with just letting him out loose and free so we picked up a small dog halter at PetSmart. We decided to put it on a bit before letting him go out to get used to the halter and OMG it was the best 30 minutes of comedy EVER. When we put the thing on him he immediately started walking like he was drunk and would THROW himself onto the ground and grind around to try and get it off. He’d highstep his walking and rub himself against walls then just suddenly SLAM his body into the ground. It was serioulsy awesome.

That’s also the new video camera I bought FOREVER AGO from Macy’s and arrived the DAY BEFORE we moved. When I saved the video I should have used the max settings. Ah well, live and learn. I’ll probably be doing a write up of it on my review site soon.

*No animals were harmed in the making of this video, however, the humans are a bit sore from laughing so hard.