Ten years together

Trina and I celebrated our ten year wedding anniversary on Memorial Day weekend. To this day, we can't remember the exact date, but at least we remember it's on a three day holiday weekend. Who can forget that, right?

I can't begin to imagine what life would be like without her by my side. In the ten years since that day in 1997, we started our lives together by bringing home Paddington, bought our first and only home, rescued Tyler from the pound, decorated our home many times over, found new jobs, traveled here and there, and our biggest and proudest moments, being parents to our beloved boys, Jake and Joey.

What did we do to celebrate? What we enjoy doing everyday...having a quiet dinner together enjoying the moment. Yeah right. Of course, we ignored for that fleeting moment, the blaring sounds of cartoons Jake was watching, Joey's screaming for milk, Tyler's whining to go outside, and Paddi's snout poking at our laps for dinner scraps. It was the most romantic ten-second dinner together between a husband and wife. We can only smile and appreciate what we have after ten years together and what will happen in the years to come.

"Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be -
the last of life for which the first was made."
- Robert Browning