10 years...

10 years ago today I was reintroduced to the love of my life. I say reintroduced because yes as some of you know I have known Ryan since I was 9 and he was 11 but for a period of time (approximately 5 years) we did not see each other... he had a girlfriend and a job and thus stayed in Vegas; and me, I was 13 when he stopped coming to Prescott and between the ages of 13 and 18 a LOT can happen!

10 years... we have been together through hell and back for 10 years and some days it feels like just yesterday we got together and others its feels like it has been a lifetime (no this is not our wedding anniversary duh! but our "being together" anniversary). I can tell you now, with God as my witness I wouldn't want anyone else by my side for the rest of my life.

10 years and I still love Ryan more than anything (well, besides our wonderful children, which actually might make me love him more because he gave them to me). He is my best friend, strength when I need it, my husband, the love of my life.

To think, 19 years ago our love started with "want to see my hamster?" I would have never thought that 19 years later I would be saying that I have been with him for 10 years, 6 years of marriage, 2 children and looking forward to a lifetime with him. Its very funny how things work out!

To Ryan ~
We read this to each other on our wedding day, and today I still feel the same... I will FOREVER!
“I love you, not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I am with you.


I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself,
But for what you are making of me.


I love you for the part of me
that you bring out;


I love you for putting your hand
into my heaped-up heart and passing over all the foolish,
weak things that you can’t help dimly seeing there,


And for drawing out into the light
all the beautiful belongings that no one else had looked
quite far enough to find.

I love you because you are helping me to make
of the lumber of my life not a tavern but a temple;


Out of the works of my every day
not a reproach but a song.

I love you because you have done
more than any creed could have done to make me good

And more than any fate could have done
to make me happy.


You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.


You have done it
By being yourself.


Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.”

Happy 10 years and here is to a lifetime more! I love you!



Us 10 years ago