Monday, May 24, 2010

FIVE

May 21, 2010: Team DeBoer's five year anniversary
Place of celebration: Target Field
Menu: Murray's steak sandwiches with New Castle and Schells
Final Score: 15-3, a Twins schelacking
Best Moment: It's a five-way tie…

1. Our view
2. Using the 3rd base dugout box's private concession stand and bathroom
3. Gomez's home run
4. Seeing ourselves on TV (yeah, we taped the game)
5. Using Sex World to find our way back to our car
 
Minnie and Paul
Our view of Mr. Mauer
Team DeBoer
Under the lights

Five memories from our wedding day:
1. The storm and the light flickering that ensued the entire ceremony; at least it broke the ice
2. Shawn's relentless efforts to place his hands on top of the pastor's for the blessing, I don't remember what the Pastor said but I remember it getting a great, big, laugh
3. Hearing Tim's guitar playing and being ridiculously moved to tears, so much so that I still have mascara stains on the handkerchief I received pre-wedding; the handkerchief that was made from my Mom's wedding dress
4. Seeing Shawn for the first time that day, I melted
5. Telling Dad he cleaned up nice right before he walked me down the isle

Five memories from the reception:
1. The Philly cheese steak sandwiches!
2. Always seeing Jordan with a fresh champagne bottle
3. Watching Miguel teach everyone to dance
4. Seeing Dad's expression when he heard the song him and I were going to dance to
5. Seeing our parents, siblings, family and friends surround us for our final dance

Five destinations from our five years:
1. Lutsen
2. New York
3. Europe
4. Florida
5. Mexico

Five memories from our five years:
1. Bringing home Norman
2. Entering our house for the first time
3. Hearing of Shawn's job offer
4. Every time we've been stalled on Interstate 35
5. Driving in Germany - check that - surviving driving in Germany

These simple little lists don't begin to describe our marriage, or better yet, our relationship. Legally, we've been bound to one another for five years. Lovingly, we've been "going out" for 12 years this September. Either way you slice it, we're still immeasurably happy and I thank all the gods for the man I found and for him walking with me all this time. Now our shadows include two dopey dudes and life is again, good. Although our other shoe finally fell, we're stronger for it, we're learning from it and our grip is even tighter to each other.

Enough sappy crap. Happy Anniversary Mr. DeBoer! Here's to you…

You and Me
Dave Matthews Band

Wanna pack your bags, Something small
Take what you need and we disappear
Without a trace we'll be gone, gone
The moon and the stars can follow the car
and then when we get to the ocean
We gonna take a boat to the end of the world
All the way to the end of the world

Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yes, yes (x2)

You and I, we're not tied to the ground
Not falling but rising like rolling around
Eyes closed above the rooftops
Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars
Our arms wide as the sky
We gonna ride the blue all the way to the end of the world
To the end of the world

Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We're gonna teach them to fly

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yes, yes

We can always look back at what we did
All these memories of you and me baby
But right now it's you and me forever girl
And you know we could do better than anything that we did
You know that you and me, we could do anything

You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yeah, yeah
Two of us together, we could do anything, baby
You and me together yeah, yeah
Two of us together yeah, yeah
Two of us together, we could do anything, baby

4 comments:

  1. ~happy anniversary to the love birds~

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  2. Happy Anniversary, Kali and Shawn! Even in high school, it was easy to tell you two would be together forever :)

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  3. Happy Anniversary Team DeBoer! Can't believe it's been 5 years already!

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