11 Years and counting

We're too overwhelmed with life right now to really celebrate, so we agreed not to do anything typical, like go out to eat for our 11-year wedding anniversary. I did, however, try and get him to watch our wedding DVD, but it was malfunctioning so it quit right before the ceremony. But we saw enough to be awed at how young we were, and everyone else around us, too! Friends, family, cousins....some still with us, some not. So much changes in 11 years.
Things I'm grateful for:
That Brian and I are not the selfish kids we were when we got married, constantly arguing and looking out for #1, unable to compromise or play our roles right. After 11 years, we've really got it down, and our relationship is so much sweeter for it.
That we can still make each other laugh like crazy. NOTHING has changed about our senses of humor or love of each other's company. We still have entire conversations using nothing but TV and movie quotes collected over the 15 years we've been a couple.
That we've managed to have quite a bit of adventure in those 11 years, that we've faced challenges fairly bravely, and took risks that paid off.

Things I never saw coming:
I'm married to a pilot.
Brian made crazy career moves, not once, but twice, and going on a third.
Infertility: Boy, did I not see that one coming.
Three kids: Boy, did I not see that one coming.
Three year-long separations (one cut in half with Brian getting shot)
Brian getting shot
Owning a minivan
Brian getting a tattoo

Things I'm looking forward to:
More adventures
Raising three kids
Getting back to my writing career
Retirement from the Army (or end of the war, but something tells me retirement will come first)

Challenges ahead:
I honestly think this pregnancy and the next couple years of raising two babies will be the biggest challenge we've faced since I was diagnosed with endometriosis. The emotional turmoil we're in right now is exhausting and scary. However, we have a solid history of getting through these things, even though they seemed like mountains when we were trying to get over them. Pray for the next 11 years of our marriage, and our poor kids who have to put up with us. =)