As I start to write this, Traci and I are just 18 minutes from celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary. It's hard to believe that it's already been 10 years, but what a great 10 years it has been! If I were to try to write about all the memories we have in our 10 years of marriage, I would be writing until our next anniversary.
I am really looking forward to tomorrow! After breakfast we will be dropping the kids off at my parents house for a sleepover they have been looking forward to for some time. Then it's off to celebrate the bid day, just the two of us. We'll begin by seeing "The Proposal". After that it's home to feed the fish and then off to lunch and Disneyland, where I imagine we'll be the rest of the day and will hopefully stick around to see to the new and improved Fantasmic and fireworks. I'm really looking forward to spending the day with Traci.
I have spent a lot of today trying to remember exactly what we were doing 10 years ago today. I remember the rehearsal and dinner. At this minute (11:47) I was asleep. It was just me and my friend Micah in the apartment. I remember all the fun we had that day making final preparations for the wedding. I remember the prank my father-in-law pulled in getting the pastor (Don Perini) to try to get me to denounce the Dodgers while practicing saying the vows. (He was unsuccessful at getting me to do so.) I remember almost being late to the rehearsal because I was picking up my cousin Christina and her son, our ring bearer, Sam from the Murrieta area. I remember the fun of the dinner and having so many good, close friends involved in our big day and seeing everyone sign the matting around our engagement picture, which is still hanging in our living room.
I love thinking back to those memories and all the happy feelings they bring. The more I think about marriage, the more I realize what a big commitment it really is. In looking back, I almost wonder why I wasn't really scared about it. Then I think of Traci and remember exactly why I was never scared. With her by my side for the rest of our lives, what is there to be scared about? God brought her into my life for a reason, and I am so thankful that he did. I have no idea who I would be or what I would be doing if she was not in my life.
It is almost midnight now and it feels a little bit like New Years Eve. I think I need to go and get ready to kiss her at the stroke of midnight. Happy anniversary, my love! Here's to 100 more!!!!!!!!
I am really looking forward to tomorrow! After breakfast we will be dropping the kids off at my parents house for a sleepover they have been looking forward to for some time. Then it's off to celebrate the bid day, just the two of us. We'll begin by seeing "The Proposal". After that it's home to feed the fish and then off to lunch and Disneyland, where I imagine we'll be the rest of the day and will hopefully stick around to see to the new and improved Fantasmic and fireworks. I'm really looking forward to spending the day with Traci.
I have spent a lot of today trying to remember exactly what we were doing 10 years ago today. I remember the rehearsal and dinner. At this minute (11:47) I was asleep. It was just me and my friend Micah in the apartment. I remember all the fun we had that day making final preparations for the wedding. I remember the prank my father-in-law pulled in getting the pastor (Don Perini) to try to get me to denounce the Dodgers while practicing saying the vows. (He was unsuccessful at getting me to do so.) I remember almost being late to the rehearsal because I was picking up my cousin Christina and her son, our ring bearer, Sam from the Murrieta area. I remember the fun of the dinner and having so many good, close friends involved in our big day and seeing everyone sign the matting around our engagement picture, which is still hanging in our living room.
I love thinking back to those memories and all the happy feelings they bring. The more I think about marriage, the more I realize what a big commitment it really is. In looking back, I almost wonder why I wasn't really scared about it. Then I think of Traci and remember exactly why I was never scared. With her by my side for the rest of our lives, what is there to be scared about? God brought her into my life for a reason, and I am so thankful that he did. I have no idea who I would be or what I would be doing if she was not in my life.
It is almost midnight now and it feels a little bit like New Years Eve. I think I need to go and get ready to kiss her at the stroke of midnight. Happy anniversary, my love! Here's to 100 more!!!!!!!!
