10 Years

10 years goes by so fast!! It's hard to believe that Dave and I just celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary on May 21st. It was so fun to have the opportunity to think back on all of the wonderful memories we have and how far we've come since that day in 1999... here are a few tidbits summarizing our lives together so far...

We've lived in 9 homes/apartments and 4 states (UT, MI, CA, TX),
Earned 3 degrees (My BA and our MBAs),
Visited 13 countries (canada mexico france austria hungary italy malaysia singapore cambodia thailand philippines guatemala costa rica),
Seen our family grow by 11 people (2 wonderful sons, 1 sister-in-law, 3 brothers-in-law, 5 nephews),
Endured one major surgery (Dave's open-heart),
And grown in love too much to measure!

2 months into marriage

10 years later

We have such great neighbors -- two of them offered to watch our kids for us while we celebrated, so we took advantage of them both by leaving them with the Gilders while we went to dinner at Perry's and then Mendy came over and stayed with the kids after we came home and put them to bed while we went to a movie. It had been since before Charlie was born that we had been out together and we had a really nice time.

The morning of our anniversary, Dave's sister Carrie sent us this darling poem:

Roses and Red Violets are blue

Your Anniversary is here

8 years plus 2!!

Your wedding day

Bright sunshine, romance

Then we picked Dave up for a picture

And almost split his pants

A beautiful bride and her adorable groom

Happy wedding guests and family

Filled the festive room

Who knew back then

Where your future would lead

What states you would live in

Moving with such speed

Michigan, Utah, California and now

You live in state where your boys can see cows

And what did you think

You would think when you thought

An MBA sounds good, and

so you both sought

And learned and grew,

debated and analyzed,

a career that would challenge

would be your winning prize

And now for your family

Two boys of your own

Happy bouncing and fun

Already they’ve grown

My love for you both

And the memories we’ve shared

Means so much to me

To have family that cares

So Happy Anniversary

I can’t believe it’s ten

So many good times ahead and

A quick look back at where you’ve been