
Another Year with my Horse Husband
Today I celebrate another year spent with my ‘horse husband’. It’s four years of marriage for us (and almost 9 total) and we’ll celebrate our “fruit and flowers” anniversary this year.
My husband is turning into a pro at funny anniversary gifts. For the 2nd “Cotton” anniversary he got me a cotton t-shirt that said “It’s my 2nd anniversary and all I got was this t-shirt”, a cotton candy maker and a cotton saddle pad. This year for “fruit and flowers” he found something even more kitschy.
Yes, that is a silk rose with an apple in it. Genius.
Being married for four years, I am certainly no expert on the subject. Honestly, I didn’t realize it would be hard. That’s a pretty stupid thought, but I figured that you worked out all the kinks in years of dating and living together and engagement and once marriage happened things were smooth sailing.
Ha. Ha. Ha.

But honestly, I have it really good. I married someone who is my equal (who am I kidding, he is way smarter than me) and true partner. He supports my dreams, even though the sum it costs to pursue them is painfully expensive at times.
He doesn’t get my obsession love of horses and horse showing, but he’s stopped trying to understand. He just accepts that this is part of me, even though it makes 0 logical sense.

In return, I’m trying to be a better, more patient and understanding wife. I’m sure you are shocked to hear that I have a stubborn streak and may or may not be the authority on everything many things. I guess, like my horse, I’m a work in progress.
Definitely ready for another year of ups and downs, but hopefully a lot more ups this year. I know a good start is not bringing another animal into the house, because you’d be surprised at how much losing a dog eye ball can stress a relationship. 😉

Marching into year five I’m going to take more time to appreciate this man. Sometimes we are so busy giving all of our patience to co-workers and horses and family, that we forget to take the extra moment with the person who should be more important than any of them.

42 thoughts on “Another Year with my Horse Husband”
Happy anniversary!
Happy anniversary! Loved this post on marriage – you totally hit the nail on the head! Hope you two are able to spend time together to celebrate. 🙂
Happy Anniversary! Loved this post. I wish more bloggers would give insight into how they make it work (or don’t) with their significant others. Horses are an extremely expensive, time consuming and obessive hobby. It can be hard to strike a work-husband-dog-horse-family-friend balance for me. I can’t even (and don’t want to) imagine kids in the mix!
We can’t imagine kids either! My husband and I admit we don’t make great adults 🙂
Happy Anniversary! October, 2010 was a great time for some awesome couples to tie the knot!
Seriously! Guess a lot of cool people choose to get together that month 😀
Happy Anniversary!
Congrats! Happy Anniversary
Congratulations! Your last sentence is a masterpiece and I might steal it. 🙂
I take no credit! Karen from Bakersfield Dressage wrote an amazing post on marriage for her anniversary that put this idea into my head. Her post is way better than mine.
Happy Anniversary! Great post!
Happy Anniversary! Love that last photo – and agreed about giving more patience to co-workers than to our deserving spouses.
My hubby and I celebrated our 4th anniversary on Oct 2…or we would have, if we weren’t both morons and forgot : ) I love that you guys do fun gifts like that!
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!
Yay! Go October 2010 couples (Paul and I celebrated 4 years 10.2)- and I LOVE that you’re looking up the themes for each year! FUN! Very well said blog and a good reminder to take that extra moment!
Woo! October 2010 for the win.
Happy, happy, HAPPY anniversary to you and Tim <3
Nawww Happy Anniversary, what a sweet post
Happy Anniversary! If ever he gives you a hard time about riding just say it could be worse, I buy horses without even telling my husband 😉
LOL that would be the end of me!
Congrats!
Happy Anniversary!
That last picture is everything I want for my future. Happy anniversary! Well deserved <3
Aw, that’s really sweet 🙂 I hope you get it all… you deserve it!
A good horse husband is hard to find!
Congratulations!!
happy anniversary!! i LOVE the photos – esp the second to last one. simon’s face is so precious too, like ‘oh yea, this ma family and dey love me’
Happy anniversary! Love that second to last picture 🙂
Happy anniversary! You’re adorable together.
BINGO! 20 years of marriage (plus four years of dating the same man) have taught me to bring my A game home. Don’t use up all of the good you at work or the barn; save that pleasantness for your honey. Congratulations and many more!
Your blog post on marriage/anniversaries fueled a lot of my attempts at thinking more positively lately! You are a great influence to use younger horse loving married gals 😀
Aw … thanks. :0) Keep up the good work!
Congrats! Great reminder for me 😉
Happy Anniversary!
We celebrated our 10th last month. 😉
It is certainly a journey and being a horse nut doesn’t always make it easy. Sometimes I like to remember that other women have obsessions like shopping for expensive shoes or clothes. To each his own!
Congratulations! You guys are close to us, we just celebrated our fourth anniversary as well on October 15.
Congratulations! Love the gift ideas, how funny! May we all be as lucky as you two are <3
Congrats! We just celebrated our 4 year also 🙂
Happy anniversary! My husband and I just celebrated our first yesterday (the 19th – October is a good month!!) I didn’t realize until after we actually got married how much putting up the the horse and all the horse related stuff hew oils actually have to do. Horse husbands are saints!
Happy happy anniversary to you two!
Love this!
It’s funny how you think you have it allllllll figured out when you are dating/engaged and then once you get married, you realize you weren’t anywhere close!
It’s taken me years, and I still blow it all the time, but I’m trying to get better at bringing home my A game. You nailed it with that last sentence from Bakersfield Dressage.
Happy (belated) anniversary! I actually have friends who make anniversary gifts a competition for each other so that every year they have to get the other something for that year (cotton, fruit/flowers, wood, etc). It has turned into quite the celebration!
Congrats and Happy Anniversary!