5! 5! 5! 5! 5!

On this day five years ago, on a blustery day in Ole Baltimore Town, I got married! What can I say? We chose the date deliberately and with great care, in other words, homeslice was about to be booted into the Early Adapter phase of the War on Terror (he's so avant EVERYTHING!) so we knew we had to get hitched. Is there a more romantic spot than your local City Hall? I think not. Keep your string quartets and espaliered pear trees bedazzled with twinkly white lights. We kept it real with a metal detector and a "sign here, here and here" nuptial efficiency.

Since then, we've kept busy. Stuff that's happened:

One deployment.

One redeployment.

One PCS.

Several TDYs.

Two Presidential Photo Ops.

Countless pet names that would make the masses gag.

Lots of opportunities to wear fancy clothes and eat butter shaped into crimped, frigid spheres.

Road trips all over this great land of ours, including a camp-out where we left the tent unzipped. Rain and hilarity ensued.

Adopted a really big, incredibly hairy Labrador who we love with the white hot intensity of a thousand fuzzy suns.

What can I say? I love my dude more than my own heartbeat, and I just had to yell that out--all girly and stupid-like--to the whole damn world.

HAPPY FIVE, WunderDude!!!!!!!

Since I know you're all dying of curiosity, here's a pic. So amazing is he, he can assume various forms of mythical creatures. Here he is as the almighty jackalope. What can't this guy do?????