What we want you to know...

There are so many reasons I love your daddy, and every day I think of something I hope you got to see from wherever you're watching. I decided to keep as many of those moments recorded as I can because I need you to know not only how much we love you but how much we love each other.When I was little I had a lot of friends' parents get divorced. It seemed to my childish mind that my own parents' marriage was just a time bomb waiting to go off, that someday I'd be the one crying because my parents didn't love each other anymore. I expressed this concern to my parents and they held me and promised me that they loved each other and Heavenly Father too much to ever end their marriage. I believed them, and I've never spent another worried moment over it.I hope you know that's how your daddy and I feel too. We decided before we got married that if we were going to the temple together it was going to be forever. Our commitment to each other, to God, and to you is so absolute and determined that we'll do anything for this marriage. We don't want to just make it work, either, we want to find joy and happiness together. It takes a lot of effort to really find the joy sometimes because life gets hard and overwhelming. But I try to make Daddy happy, and he tries to make me happy, and with both of us taking care of the other we find it much easier to find the kind of joy Heavenly Father intended us to have in marriage. I can always feel the joy that comes from knowing my husband loves me more than anything in this world ... and I hope you all have that someday.So this will be a record of our relationship written to you. I hope you enjoy reading it and that someday when you're old enough to need and appreciate what you read here you'll find the insight and comfort you're looking for. My goodness, how we love you already.