Wife Card

Last week for my 25th birthday I had the honor of receiving my very first "wife" card.  I got lots of super cool new toys for my birthday (hello iPad2!) but as silly as it sounds, the wife card was by far the biggest and most pleasant surprise.

Tory is notorious for picking...interesting birthday cards for me.  Usually they fall into one of  two categories:

#1 funny cards that you are likely to get for your cousin or receive from a crazy aunt or uncle.  Let me paint a picture: the first birthday card he gave me:

Cover: "for your birthday I got you a shiny new lincoln!"
Inside: a penny.

#2 the cutesy girl-friend card.... aka the card with the black and white photo of 2 little girls shopping in big hats on the cover.  The kind of card you get your girl-friend (not your girlfriend!)  The last birthday card I received from T had a photo of 2 little girls with huge sunglasses on and oranges stuffed in their shirts... Cute, but not what you expect to receive from your fiance!

I give Tory a really hard time about his birthday card selection but its really all in good fun.  In fact, for the longest time, he never even included cards.  For the girl who spent half of undergrad working in a Hallmark store... cards are a special, meaningful, essential part of gift giving.

This year he completely nailed it.

1.  The front of the cover says "To My Wife.... I love being with you"
2.  The couple is riding a bicycle built for 2 (hello new hobby of ours)
3.  The words on the inside literally said it all.

I won't go into details about the message inside.  I don't know if this was the first card he picked up or if he read 25 before picking this one, but I don't even care.  He couldn't have chosen a better card to describe our love and zest for life and new adventures every day.

This silly little piece of cardstock was the coolest thing I received for my whole birthday and I will cherish my first wife card for as long as I live.  Here's to infinitely more wife cards in my future and Tory's first husband card this fall!

P.S.  I also received my first daughter-in-law card which was also pretty cool!