A decade

10 years ago today, I married the only man I have ever loved.  My high school sweetheart and best friend.  It was a day right out of my own little fairytale.  I look back on that day and think how simple our lives were...

We had no idea I would soon be trying to handle 120 eighth graders at my former middle school, that you would soon be applying for and getting into the first and only school you applied to,to become a physical therapist.  That it would take us longer than expected to have a baby which would turn out to be a boy!  That we would move to North Salt Lake and enjoy...no LOVE a ward we never thought we would.  That we would have a second baby much sooner than expected and it also would be a boy!  We didn't know what it was like to be parents. To send a child to time out.  To stay up worried sick about a fever that wouldn't go away.  To have a two year old.  To have said two year old stick a blueberry up his nose. To have a dog in a yard that was way to small.  To drive through Salt Lake traffic.  To stop in Salt Lake traffic to get oldest child to stop screaming and making baby cry.  We didn't know what it would be like to survive grad school.  The tests, studying, dissertation and internships.  We didn't know what it would feel like to want to just give up.  We didn't know what it would feel like to fight and wonder why in the world we got married in the first place:)  We also didn't know what it would feel like to make it through hard stuff and say sorry, and make up.  We had no idea we would end up in the same valley we grew up in and have the worlds greatest neighbors.  We had no idea we would get a daughter.  We had no idea what it was like to teach a child to ride a bike or throw a ball.  We had no idea what it would be like to put in a yard, or finish a basement.  We had no idea what it would be like to drive three kids to California and go to Disneyland.  We had no idea how to wipe away tears of a child whose heart had been broken.  How to survive stitches on our only girl.  I had no idea I would love having a little girl around so much and you didn't have any idea you would love your snuggle time with her as much as you do.  We had no idea we would have three boys.  We had no idea we would love it so much!  We had no idea being a parent, a husband and a wife would be so hard, so draining, so time consuming and so absolutely worth it.  10 years ago today we thought we were smart.....well that must mean today we are brilliant!  Happy anniversary to the man I adore and cannot imagine not having in my life.  I love you Darin.  Here is to many, many more!

I thought it would be fun to see a few pictures of our anniversaries over the  past 10 years.....what an adventure we have had! I wonder what the next 10 will hold?

Starting out...honeymoon key west Florida 2000

California 2001

Hawaii 2002

SLC 2003

apparently on our anniversary in 2004 I was too pregnant to want any pictures...Carter came that Feb. so this was as good as I could get!

Hawaii 2005

SLC 2005

Cove 2006

Our house 2007

Our house 2008

                                                                        Sand Diego 2008

                                                                      Logan 2009

2010

We are looking much older than 10 years ago, but I still think I have the most handsome catch around!