Over Ten Years Have Gone By...

Hello and Happy Wednesday!

On Monday, April 1st, Ben and I celebrated our first decade together! A DECADE....Holy Cow! We have been together for a whole 10 years. It's strange to think that I have known Ben for so long. Gosh how things have changed. I mean to start we are married. Who would have thought it!?!

I suppose the best place to start is the beginning...Let's see, Ben and I met in school of course. I mean we are still young, so go figure that we are high school sweethearts. Even though we grew up in such a small community, I didn't even know who Ben was until I was a sophomore in high school. Actually, he was good friends with my best friend. It seems that they knew each other for quite some time which is weird that I had no clue who he was. Even more, I knew who Ben's sister was before I even knew Ben existed. Ben and I were also were in the high school band together for a whole year without even knowing about the presence of each other.

The good news in it all is that we met....finally! I mean it wasn't really that long that we knew each other before we started dating. Ben started the Spring semester in my theater arts class my sophomore year and that is when we first met. I don't really think we paid each other too much attention but on April 1st he ended up asking me "out." I say "out" because we had no plans to go anywhere yet...but you know the high school drift of things.

I think the weirdest thing is that we didn't know anything about each other. I just knew that he was totally playing an April Fool's joke on me; but after much convincing from some friends, I guess he was serious after all. That's just one of the things I have to love about Ben....he doesn't play any stupid April Fool's pranks. It's so juvenile and I just don't care much for them. Now, April 1st has a great meaning to it!

Of course we have so many funny and embarrassing stories over the years, but I thought I share this photo of a trip to the Carlsbad Caverns we took when we were still dating. Look at how young we look :)

When we first started dating, so many of my friends told me this wouldn't last long. I mean Ben and I were totally different...well let's be honest, we were complete opposites. Now, I see much of Ben's mannerisms and quirks in myself and vise versa. I can tell we have rubbed off of each other enough that I can say Ben is my other half. He definitely completes me and is the kimchi to my rice ^_^.

Ben and I have been married for about a year and a half now and things are better than ever. I am so glad that I listened to him read me the dictionary when we first met because look at us now!

Anyways, here's to our first decade and I am so excited for many-many more! "We're locked in time...let's rewind..."

Until next time...