Tony! Toni! Tone!

Is that the 3 brown-boy group that sang "It's your an-iv-er-sar-y-y?" I don't really know. I was too busy listening to Joan Baez in the mid 1990s.

But this is Edo's and my 5 year wedding anniversary. I might be a little bit biased, but I think it may have been the best party in the history of the world. As we were planning the wedding, my dad told me he was surprised I wanted such a traditional type wedding and reception. I told him that there is really no other time in one's life when you can gather almost everyone that's important to you in one room to eat and drink and dance and celebrate. Graduations? Nope, believe me, I've graduated from lots of things.

Anyway, I remember looking out at everyone from the head table at the wedding dinner and realizing that there had never been so many of my favorite people all together in one room. And there probably won't be again. Then, when my dad and I were dancing at the reception, we looked around at the room, and he said he understood what I had been talking about. He "got" it.

I should also mention that it's been a big 5 years. In our fledgling marriage, a law degree has been earned, a house has been purchased, a baby has been born, a toddler has emerged and smacked both of his parents in the face. All awesome, except that last one.

In thinking back to 5 years ago, one grandparent (Eduardo's Grandma) had died just 4 days before our wedding, and 2 grandparents (my Grandpa Lund and Grandma Smith) have died since our wedding.

Anniversaries are interesting to me. Of course, it is fun and great to celebrate the relationship and how we have grown as individuals and as a family, but it's also a time to think about how things have changed over the past 5/10/15/20 whatever years. For good and for bad. For gain and for loss. For better and for worse.

Tonight, I am drinking wine and watching "Grease" on TV. Eduardo is at work. Johan is sleeping. Tomorrow, Eduardo and I will go downtown to stay at a 4-star hotel and raise a glass to the past 5 years. And the next many.