We are the Arzaga's: 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

"A life lived for others is a life worthwhile"

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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice." William Jennings Bryan
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"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." Roger Caras
"Everything is going to be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end." - unknown
"From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way." - Calvin and Hobbes
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a flying, and this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying." - Robert Herrick
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Have fun storming the castle!" - Princess Bride"
"He who knows patience knows peace." Chinese proverb
"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts is with a simple smile." Goldie Hawn
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? - Stand By Me
"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world." Walt Whitman
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"Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet. " - Roger Miller
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"The secret to happiness is learning to appreciate the moment" Bill Watterson via Calvin and Hobbes
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"This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. Think about that for a while. " - Bull Durham
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"What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
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"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." Carl G. Jung
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We are the Arzaga's

Ten years together

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