The Tenth Year

In Ten years, 

I have never 

laughed so much, 

cried so much, 

yelled so much, 

kissed so much, 

hugged so much, 

said I'm sorry so much, 

been right so much, 

cared so much. 

On this day Ten years ago. I walked out of the Mesa Arizona Temple a married lady for time and all eternity with man I chose. We still didn't know each other very much but we knew that we wanted to be together. To work out our problems, to see each other succeed, 

to encourage one another to be the best that they could be and most importantly love each other. 

I don't think we know everything there is to know about each other, now but I do know is that I love my husband and that he is the best man for me. 

I am excited that we can spend this day remembering that.

I came home last night from work to find a dozen red roses, 

a fantastic love note and an enlarge photo of our wedding day. 

Before we were sealed we took our pictures outside the Temple. I was late and Mike had been waiting with the video guy for 20 min. (right as I was getting ready to meet him I walked between to dirty cars and my dress got dirty, it took a moment to get it cleaned up.) He told me later he thought I was bailing on him. He looked so relieved when I showed up. 

We took photos at 6am (well, at 7am) and it was hot. 90 degrees already. 

The Temple was closing after that day for cleaning, 

there were 48 couples that day getting married. 

I remember being in the sealing room and looking at my soon to be sisters-in-law and they were crying. I didn't want to cry but when I saw them, the tears just started to come. My dress was so tight that it was hard to breath. When the sealer said that we could kiss. I didn't think about what he had said and I just shook my head. I wanted my first kiss with my husband to be special not in front of everyone. ( I have tried to redeem myself, asking Mike to kiss me over the alter, when we have done sealings later. But it is now a missed opportunity)

When we left the Temple it was 105 degrees with 15% humidity. The Utah family, was melting away. The Arizona family, was saying "oh it's not that bad" 

Mike was melting in his tuxedo and I was melting under all the tulle I was wearing. 

All the magical memories of getting married on 

the beautiful, summer morning in July will always be with us.