Ten Years

"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made."

Robert Browning

In some ways it feels like just yesterday when we said "I do" and in other ways it feels like forever. In these ten years, we've certainly seen our share of "tempests" that Shakespeare warned of and at times were a tad bit "shaken," but we found our stars in a wandering bark and the height was taken...

but the worth unknown.

Rosy lips and cheeks have met the bending sickle after tireless nights and two kids, but you still tell me I am beautiful and I still somehow believe you. And when I look back on pictures, on our collection and scrapbooks of memories, I realize now my favorite moments weren't found when...

Standing on the Lock Key Bridge in Paris

Or kissing at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower

Or gazing out of the top of the Empire State Building

Or standing beside a majestic Mayan Ruin

Or in front of beautiful Niagara Falls

My favorite moments were the simplest ones...meeting at the coffee shop every day at three o'clock before I had to go tutor, learning to drive stick shift on the dirt roads in your truck, our long talks and rides to the hunting land, nights of badminton in the backyard with no net, climbing fences to go duck hunting with you, and camping together in the backyard as a family...

I can honestly say there has never been a dull moment with you by my side. I love your love for life. So in the words of Andrew Peterson, "I'll walk with you in the shadowlands till the shadows disappear" because you are my one true love, my ever-fixed mark, and I cannot imagine filling the pages of my Adventure Book with anyone else but you.