11 Years!

(June 10, 2000)

Today my sweet hubby and I celebrate our 11 year anniversary!  Words can simply not express how blessed I am to be married to this wonderful man.  He is the perfect man for me, and I am so thankful that God allowed him to be my husband.

(Side note:  My scanner is not working, so most of these pics are pictures of pictures I photographed using my phone, hence the POOR quality.)

(First Date, Homecoming…October 8, 1994.  I’m sitting on Brad’s knee, and that large thing on my chest is a MUM.  If you’re not from Texas you may not be familiar.  I’ll have to explain it at another time.)

We have a great marriage.  It requires work, and it’s not always easy, but it’s a great marriage.  I am married to a man that I love with all my heart!

(Belles Dance, Senior Year of High School…December 1995)

Brad is the most Christ-like person I have ever known and he embodies the fruits of the Spirit.  He is full of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, goodness, and self-control.

(Kappa Sigma Rush Dance…September 1998)

He loved me then.  He loves me now.  He’ll love me in the future.  He is the most loyal person I’ve ever known.  Loyal almost to a fault, and I love him for it.

(Colorado with Brad’s parent’s…August 1999)

He is joyful, although he would tell you it doesn’t come naturally.  I would never know that, and I know him pretty well.

(Honeymoon in Kauai, Hiking the Napali Coast…June 2000)

He is a peace-maker.  He doesn’t thrive on confrontation as his wife sometimes does, but he’s able to let things roll off his back.

(FIRST Anniversary…June 2001)

He is one of the most patient people I’ve ever known (other than his father).  He is steady, easy-going, and not easily rattled.  He is patient with the world’s most frustrating and slowest person…me! :)  He learned on our first date, when I was 30 minutes late, that patience would need to be a virtue of his. :)

(Grand Cayman, Swimming with Sting Rays…September 2002)

He is kind.  Kind like no other man.  Kind in situations when no one else would be.  I think this goes hand in hand with the patience thing.  I think this helps him to be a wonderful Real Estate Agent…patience and kindness…two things that are hard to come by in that industry.

(Maui, Mama’s Fish House…March 2003)

He is so gentle.  He would rather not spank his little girls to discipline them.  It’s usually his mean wife that’s yelling, “Babe, you have to discipline them for that!”  He would rather give hugs than punishments.  I’m thankful he creates balance in our family.

(Cozumel…April 2006)

He is faithful to the Lord.  He is faithful to me.  He is faithful to his babies.  He is faithful to his parents and to mine.  He is faithful to our church.  He is faithful to his clients.  He is a faithful man!  He does his part, and he does it with his heart.  Again, he is loyal!

(Tubing with the Rosemans…September 2007)

He is good.  He is wise, and he knows right from wrong.  He makes good decisions and he’s a righteous man.  Not a self-righteous man, but a righteous one.  He just makes good choices (as in choosing his wife!) :)

(10-Year Anniversary…June 2010)

He has more self-control in his pinky than I have in my whole body.  He is disciplined, driven, and able to say no when he knows he needs to.

(Cancun…June 2010)

Let’s just say, we make a good team.  He’s the good one and he balances all my bad.  I am truly the most blessed woman in the world.  I am thankful to have been married to this jewel of a man for 11 wonderful years (plus about 6 dating years) and he makes me a better wife, mom, woman!

(Our first Half Marathon…October 2010)

ILYMED, babe!

(Most recent pic of just the 2 of us…February 2011)

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

-1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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