Scott's Thoughts

My Lovely Wife

Isn't she beautiful?

Six years and two days ago, I watched my soon-to-be wife walk down the aisle with her father in a little wedding chapel in the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

It wasn't exactly the play that we drew up, to put it in basketball coaching parlance. Vegas. Not what every little girl dreams of when she's having her play weddings as an eight-year old. And if you know LeAnn, you know she was ordering everyone around at her playtime weddings. She was definitely an eight-year old Bridezilla. :)

But you know what, to bring in another basketball analogy, coaches coach and players play. And we've been playing pretty darn well together for the last six years. True, we didn't exactly start out the way everyone draws it up. But I feel like we're playing some of our best games right now. And I think we're only going to continue to get better (sorry for the sports analogies ... if you know me, you know what a sports dork I am ... secondly, I just finished watching a Mizzou basketball game).

LeAnn is a social butterfly. She's the life of the party. Always making people smile. Being silly. I'm kind of a homebody. I'd just as soon stay at home on Friday and Saturday. LeAnn always wants to be out doing something. But as her previous post suggests, we are each other's Yin and Yang. As Dave Ramsey says, each relationship has its nerd (I'm guessing that might be me) and its free spirit (yep, definitely LeAnn). And we balance each other out.

Having fun together after all these years!

And the really awesome thing is, we've really begun to hit a groove in this balancing act called marriage. I can, without question, say that I love LeAnn more today than I did six years ago. I'm pretty sure LeAnn feels the same way. And I think that's an awesome thing.

Growing up, I'd always heard that if you love someone, then the things that used to bug you about that person would be the things you'd miss the most when they were gone. And that's true ... well, somewhat true (as much as I love playing "find her cell phone", I'd kind of like it if she were to quit losing it). LeAnn and I really are a great couple. And I think we're great parents too, which is our most important asset.

Don't get me wrong, marriage (and obviously parenting) definitely isn't easy. We still have our tiffs and spats (look, I know I can be a stubborn a-hole sometimes). But we're so much better at saying what we need to say, resolving the conflict as best we can and then moving on. And I think that's pretty awesome too.

LeAnn really is an incredible person. She's so talented in so many ways. She's an incredible hairstylist, but she's so much more than that for her clients. She makes each of them feel so special. She's part therapist, part best friend. She also might be the worst hair stylist in the world at actually calling her clients back, but that makes it kind of fun, right? I mean, if you're one of her clients and you can actually get on her books, it's kind of like making your way into a 1920s Speakeasy, right? :)

She's an absolutely unbelievable mother. The boys absolutely worship her. She makes every day special and so much fun for the boys. Wait until her next post so she can describe what she did for the boys today. It's incredibly cool and, like I said, so special for Landon and Kellen.

She's going to love all of this picture

There's just so much to love about my wife. She's so funny (not as funny as me, though she thinks she's funnier). She has a heart the size of Sallisornia. She cares so much for others. She's a great Mom. And I'm going to be honest, my wife of six years is pretty damn sexy too. But I won't get too much into that. This is a family blog, after all.

I love you very much LeAnn! The first six have been great! Here's to 60 more!

Love you!