Aug
04
I Could Not Ask For More
(hope this post works!)
i set this up before i left, just for you, My Dear Hubby, to be posted on our special day!!
cause today is our Ten Year Anniversary. and i cannot believe that i am not with you to celebrate!! but that just means that we’ll get to have an extra special celebration very soon!
but for today, as i’m missing you, i thought we could take a quick stroll down memory lane….the early years of our relationship!
(would you believe that the photo lab wouldn’t let me scan and burn our original wedding photos onto a CD? they didn’t believe me that we bought and now own the rights to our pictures. so these are botched photographs of the photographs…it makes it seem like we got married in the “olden” days, but it’ll have to work!)
remember these days when i was just a young teenaged college girl and you would travel down to G-ville to come hang with me? there were times that you’d come down right after football practice, stay up all night visiting with me, only to drive back early the next morning to make it back before school started and you had to teach! now that’s LOVE!
how about our trip to the Philippines to see your family at the Orphanage?
remember how we stopped off for a few days in Malaysia…and ate weird food with only our right hands (or was it our left) so as not to offend the locals? you learned pretty quickly on about my bizarre and limited palate.
or how about when i got locked in the bathroom at the resort, without electricity or windows, while everyone was out at the beach, and couldn’t get out until after a while when you came looking to see what had happened to me? they had to literally take the door off the hinges to rescue me. quite a way to make an initial impression on your fam!
PS: can we go back there someday?
and how can we forget the many many Friday nights spent at the football field, hoping and praying for a “W”! those early years were spent watching films, drawing out plays on paper napkins (too bad you didn’t use any of mine!), and learning a whole heck of a lot about the strategy behind the game of football! you sure made me a lover of the game!
we had a pretty dreamy courtship and engagement, didn’t we? i vividly remember the day that i told my mom that i could never ever be mad at you!!! are you laughing right now?? certainly not the healthiest way to begin, but sure was fun to be that smitten with each other! then the reality of marriage set in, and we are still making up for lost time 
but i’m pretty sure that i wouldn’t have it any other way. i’m still smitten with you…just in a deeper, more real way!!
remember this night? it was the night of our rehearsal, the night before our wedding, our very last night on our own before we became an official team!
and how can we forget the many many Friday nights spent at the football field, hoping and praying for a “W”! those early years were spent watching films, drawing out plays on paper napkins (too bad you didn’t use any of mine!), and learning a whole heck of a lot about the strategy behind the game of football! you sure made me a lover of the game! 
we had a pretty dreamy courtship and engagement, didn’t we? i vividly remember the day that i told my mom that i could never ever be mad at you!!! are you laughing right now?? certainly not the healthiest way to begin, but sure was fun to be that smitten with each other! then the reality of marriage set in, and we are still making up for lost time but i’m pretty sure that i wouldn’t have it any other way. i’m still smitten with you…just in a deeper, more real way!!
remember this night? it was the night of our rehearsal, the night before our wedding, our very last night on our own before we became an official team! remember God’s Promise to us that night…in the gift of a full rainbow over the ocean during the rehearsal…the same kind of rainbow that He gave us over that very ocean on our very first date, as we prayed and asked Him to pour blessings over our relationship. we serve a sweet God!! He has promised us forever, just as we’ve promised forever to each other. So grateful that He gives us such an intimate experience of His love through our marriage!
and this day…it really couldn’t have been more perfect!
can you believe its been Ten Years? it seems like just yesterday, and yet it seems like forever!
who could’ve ever dreamed that 10 years later we would be looking out over this same beach everyday??
man…we really were babies when we got married, weren’t we??
Psalm 126:3
who could’ve ever dreamed that 10 years later we would be looking out over this same beach everyday??
man…we really were babies when we got married, weren’t we??
Psalm 126:3“The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy!”
even though we aren’t physically together for our Big Day, my heart is glad and celebrating!
i am so thankful for God’s goodness, that in His massive grace and mercy, He would give me YOU. i am completely undeserving.
and as our wedding song says,
“These are the moments I thank God that I’m alive
And these are the moments
I’ll remember all my life
I found all I’ve waited for
And I could not ask for more!!”
I’ll remember all my life
I found all I’ve waited for
And I could not ask for more!!”
i’m totally taking this verse out of context, but i keep thinking of Luke 2:19 as i’m writing this post, that says,
“Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often.”
i feel like that. i treasure these memories in my heart that we’ve made together over the last Ten Years, and i think about them often. I cannot even fathom what is to come in the next Ten Years!
so Happy Anniversary to you, Babe!! I love you…
Love,
your piece of work, your pot that calls the kettle black all the time, and your little everything bagel,
ps: can’t wait to see you soon!! missing you like crazy!
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