Ten years!

It's been fourteen years since I fell in love with my best friend, and last week we celebrated our TEN YEAR wedding anniversary.  TEN YEARS!!! That's seems so crazy, because so much has happened in the last ten years, but also because I don't feel old enough to have been married ten years! It seems like last year we were 21 and hanging out in the lobby of our Greek Life dorm before a sorority social!

S and I got together the summer before our Junior year of college, and have been together ever since. We got married relatively young, at 24, and had L when we were 25.

Within six years we had three kids under the age of 6. It was wild and crazy and we truly leaned on each other so much as we navigated figuring out how to be adults and parents and good partners to each other.

And then this last year we got the ultimate surprise when we found out we pregnant with baby #4. We found out literally days after we had closed on buying our dream house, were figuring out renovations for that, and still trying to sell our old house. So, now we are, celebrating ten years. We've bought and sold our first home, and then bought and renovated our "forever" home. S has made huge strides in his career, and I made the transition from working to a full time stay at home mom. We have weathered celebrations and tragedies together.  A month ago we said goodbye to Charlie, our first baby together. We have four gorgeous kids. And most of all, we've loved each other through all of it. We've grown together and supported each other. Even when we drive each other crazy (and it happens, trust me!) We are truly each others "other halves".

Truthfully I wasn't expecting much for our anniversary, even though it was ten years. Between buying our new house and welcoming a new baby into our home recently, I figured it would just be low key.  Our anniversary fell on a Thursday and S had told me he planned on taking Friday off and that we would just order takeout and have some nice wine and rent a movie on Thursday night. On that Wednesday he decided to take Thursday off too so we could spend our actual anniversary day together. We ended up having L, R, and C with us because of a teacher walkout (that's a whole other story!) that was happening, but we went and did some shopping and then had a nice lunch.

(The tequila that we bought on our honeymoon!) 

Later that day S went to go pick the boys up pizza for dinner and our doorbell rang. I opened it, and to my surprise, there stood my Father-in-law. L, who was apparently in on the whole thing, excitedly told me to go pack a bag for the night. To say I was surprise would be an understatement, but S had arranged a night away at the hotel we had our wedding night in. We had an amazing and huge suite on our wedding night and have always talked about what a waste it was that we literally only spent like 8 hours there before we left for our honeymoon. So S got us the same style of suite, and arranged for his dad to watch he boys for us. We took C with us (nursing baby!) but went out and got dinner at my favorite bruschetta place before heading to the hotel..

The suite was amazing! Like, seriously even nicer than I remembered. It was huge and had a fireplace and an awesome balcony where we got to watch the sunset.

Obviously we had the baby with us, so it's not like we could hit the town or anything, but we walked down to one of the pool and hung out there for awhile and then came back and rented a movie. It was basically the low key night we had planned, but with less kids and an amazing "wow" element added!

The next day we got up and went to my favorite breakfast place, and then headed back to the hotel to hang out at the pool for awhile. First, is there anything then a baby in a baby bathing suite? I don't think so. S's dad told us not to rush coming home so after checkout we decided to stop and see a movie. We saw "A quiet place" which was really good, and thankfully C was an angel and slept through the whole thing!

I don't think I could have asked for a better way to spend our ten year anniversary! Truthfully, even if it had just been takeout at home I would have been happy, because I am so lucky to have this amazing and wonderful family, but a night away at a resort was good too!