Celebrating our 10 Year Anniversary

Today was our 10th Anniversary. It is crazy to look back on the last 10 years and see how it has gone by so fast, yet we have so many memories. We have experienced highs and lows and have shed tears of joy and pain. We have 5 beautiful children that we love so much and they have taught us more than we could have ever imagined. We have worked hard to get Jez through school and we have learned many life lessons just through our experiences outside of the classroom. It has been a challenging ten years for us, but we are so excited about our next 10 years and what they will bring. :)

I am so grateful to be married to my best friend. I am grateful for all the times we have spent together and the memories we have made. I know that we are meant to be together and I love the saying "grow old along with me, the best is yet to be." I love you Jez.

Wedding Day December 11, 1998

(If there is anything I would change about the day it would be to have had a photographer. We only have a few pictures and as you can see the quality isn't so great.)

Little Talden sleeping.... :)

1 Year Anniversary - We were sealed together and to our son Talden in the Logan, Utah LDS temple for time and all eternity.
(We don't have pictures of that day either... it was cloudy and rainy and all of our film was double exposed with Christmas pictures...)

2 Year Anniversary - I'm not sure, but I bet it was great. :)
3 Year Anniversary - Diddo
4 Year Anniversary - I think we might have gone to dinner at the Copper Mill, not sure - but I do think we had a great Valentine activity earlier this year. (Some of my GF buddies might remember)

5 and 6 Year Anniversary - Don't remember, sorry sweetie (but you don't remember either so I guess it's ok)

7 Year Anniversary - This one I remember! Thanks to my amazing, wonderful, totally UNFORGETABLE friends, Jez and I got to spend two nights in SLC with no kids! :) We had so much fun eating at fancy restaurants and Christmas shopping. It was such a great anniversary. :)
8 Year Anniversary - Once again, thanks to amazing friends, we were able to spend a night in SLC and got to go to a Jazz game.

9 Year Anniversary - This one I also remember. It was definitely one of the best ones we've had. We didn't have babysitters so we decided to feed the kids pizza and put them to bed early and then Jez and I cooked a fantastic dinner together. It was so fancy and yummy and we love to cook together. It is usually crazy at dinnertime with the kids, but it was nice with just us. We had music and conversation without being interrupted. It was great. Then we ate it by candlelight at our table which had a white linen, candles, and roses. After dinner we opened a gift basket from Wine Country Gift Baskets that was a Rocky Mountain tower with all kinds of goodies and we watched a movie. It was great. :)

Above: Jez chopping artichoke hearts....mmmm.

Below: The finished product. :)

10 Year Anniversary - This one probably won't top the charts for best Anniversary ideas, but it is the most profound for me. In the last couple of months our marriage has been tried and tested and through it all ultimately strengthened. I feel like this Anniversary is a turning point for us and I am excited about that. That being said... I have had strep throat since last Saturday and I'm still recovering so I am grateful I could even eat today, and Jez got a root canal this morning, so he is grateful he could eat too. :) He had the day off work and we spent most of it cleaning up our house because after 4 days of wanting to do nothing, it needed it bad. I feel so much better with it clean and we finally decided to decorate for Christmas. :) I will post pictures of that tomorrow... but other than that, I did get a chance to make this tile I had been wanting to make.


Happy Anniversary Jez.
Here's to the next 10 years.