I’ve been working on this post ever since our 6 month anniversary when WE and I danced to our *newest song.

Don’t get me wrong - having lovingly labored over this post for more than 5 minutes doesn’t mean that it will be exponentially more insightful or clever than any of my other posts. But it does mean that this one means alot to me.

As I think back on the last year – my first year of marriage – it has been the happiest yet of my life.

Here are a few of the reasons I’ve found this year that Two is, in fact, Better Than One:

- Re-routing the GPS after a wrong turn is 10X easier when you are not simultaneously driving but rather have a designated navigator.

- PTO tends to be used more for adventurous vacations rather than catching up on sleep.

- Having someone to force more water down my throat when I’m sick

- A living space that is not a rental but our own with our very own fenced yard! (even if it is un-landscaped still) I realized this week that when we got married, I had spent a more than 1/3 of my life living in apartments with landlords and cleaning checks! Crazy. Now, I am my own cleaning check lady

- Joint accounts and more responsible (transparent!) spending and savings.

- Always having someone fun to sit by at church on Sundays

- Graduating from the singles ward, period.

- Good excuse to try new things and to change old bad habits

- Magically made bed for me and magically clean clothes for WE

- Someone to push me to develop talents and skills I might not see in myself

- Goodbye and welcome home kisses!

- A good reason to dance in the kitchen

- Practice for retirement as professional B&B critics

- Holding hands at Thunderbird rollerskating

- Courtside tickets to the NCAA Bball tourney and twice the volume of Cougar cheers!

Thanks to WE for a fantastic first year! Can’t wait for the many more to come!

(*Don’t worry, we haven’t ditched ‘Someone to Fall Back On’ – but in this era of digital playlists and mobile, downloaded hits…I’m pretty sure we can claim more than one as our own)