Anniversary Party

I really need to catch up with my posts.. this working full time after college is pretty much kicking me in the butt now :p but I'm slowly catching up and putting the more important things on here rather than just discussing life thoughts..

Ok so a couple weekends ago on October 18th, 2008 we celebrated my parents 25th wedding anniversary! I thought that it would be wonderful if I could get the whole family together and throw one big surprise party for them because lets face it, first I have some pretty awesome parents and two, finding couples who stay married that long are near to impossible these days because most often, people just give up on marriage and go find another partner to make them happy again.

I value marriage to the utmost and hope that my marriage with Scott will be just as ever longing as my parents and his too (they've been married a lot longer) so I know that it was very important to have a celebration and to bring the family together. My parents were quite impressed as was everyone else.. I spent my first barley hard earned pay checks on a fancy caterer which I think impressed a few of my family members but hey, this was for my parents not for everyone else. I wanted to show them how much I honor and respect their love for one another and well ok so I wanted to be a show off.. but come on I deserve to do that right? After all, there are certain people in my family who will remain anoyomous that have it out to some how get to me.. I don't know what it is.. wait actually I do.. they see that I'm becoming successful and a young women capable of doing things without the help of man and I think it freaks them out.

So the thing that I take away from throwing my first "adult" party is that no matter how much other people in your family talk about me, it doesnt matter because the people who are in your life that do nothing but respect who you are and give you love and neautring advice are the ones that mean the most to me. I'm so glad that I do have a strong support system between my parents and my moms side of the family. They were so proud of me and that's what I take out of this. When someone praises you for a job well done that is all a person needs.. there's no need to go on and embellish it, just simply say "job well done!"