Rhett and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary on September 10th. We celebrated by moving into a new home, our first "real" house. (Everything else has been an apartment, town home or condo.)
It was a perfect way to commemorate 10 years.
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| This is the first photo I ever took of Rhett. Until then I never knew a man with a camera could be so sexy! |
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| One of our first times hanging out. These are friends from our old student ward. |
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| Who knew that 10 years later our life would look like this? I love it. I hope that soon we can add another little one to cuddle every night. (hint hint) |
But now I just tell people I was 19, and I don't really mind their shocked expressions or the "Do you feel like you even really experienced the single life?!" questions. I didn't experience a wild single college life. And I'm OK with that. I experienced midnight runs to McDonalds on the scooter, riding behind Rhett, taking the long way so we could feel the summer breeze a little longer. I experienced cooking late night dinners while Rhett wrote my college papers. We set goals together. We failed at some. Never did stop eating sugar or drinking soda, never did buy a house on our 5 year anniversary. We succeeded at a lot of them too. We both started our own businesses and we were able to support ourselves on that alone. We bought a Subaru, which was a dream come true at the time. It was old and a clunker, but to this day it's the best car I ever owned.
So yes, my college days were different than other peoples. But I'm ok with that.
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| This is the scooter we used to drive. Mint green and so so much fun. This is probably not the best example of safe driving. |
I feel like in my old age (almost 30!) I am ok with a lot of things that used to bother me. For like, the first time ever, I am ok with how I look. I am ok with just being myself, take it or leave it. I am also much more ok with other people being themselves, take it or leave it. I want to be they type that will take it. No matter what our differences are.
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| USU Homecoming, 2003. Thats my little sister Shelby in the photo with us. |
This was supposed to be a post about the house and moving day. Guess I'm rambling a little. (a lot.) But I'm not quite ready to stop yet.
As a mom I often reflect on whether or not I am teaching Stella everything she needs in life. We work on letters and letter sounds, counting to 100. But is that really important? No. If I could teach her one thing, it would be to find happiness. Seek it out. LEARN to be happy despite hard things and hard times. Of course nobody can be happy all the time, 100%. But on those bad days, finding just one little good thing can do wonders. She is often my one little amazing wonderful thing on a hard day. I am so lucky she's mine.
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| She asked me to take this picture of her. She looked at it and laughed at herself for 10 minutes straight. |
Back to moving day.
Not only did both our families drive up from Logan to help us move, but afterword they stayed and helped un pack boxes. And install light fixtures. And put together our kitchen table. At one point I looked around our new house, full of people we love who were there to help us, and I felt totally overwhelmed. I am so blessed.
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| Mine and Rhett's dad working on the light fixture. |
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| Rhetts brother and Stellas BFF Burke. He let her lead him around on a leash all afternoon. And for that, he is my BFF as well. |
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| Break time for all the heavy lifters. |
A few days later Rhetts other brother Zakk came down to help us with the fireplace. He and Rhetts dad spent a good 10 hours at our house just helping out with things. It was amazing.
And since this post is all over the place, I might as well post a wedding picture after the house pictures.
Happy anniversary Rhett. Cheers to many more years and eternity together.
So very sweet. Love your little family. We are lucky to have you!
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