Top 10 in 10

Today Matt and I are celebrating 10 years of marriage! I love our anniversary! A sweet southern summer wedding! The night before the wedding we had our rehearsal dinner out at Yates camp house...twinkle lights and low key fun! Our slideshow started out with the Watermark song More than you'll ever know! So fitting! Then everyone hung out and me and my bridemaids stayed in the historic Page House bed and breakfast! So beautiful and fun! Started our wedding morning out with a special brunch! Then the wedding...at Pine Forest UMC where hearing the song Take My Life drift back to where I was waiting with my bridesmaids and Dad was one of my favorite parts and the reception at The Dublin Country Club! Pink, champagne, monograms (even the bow on my dress was monogrammed...in white!) bows, magnolia leaves, seersucker, a donut grooms cake, pearls, sparklers, and we left on a golf cart! It was perfection! And we didn't even have Pinterest to get ideas back then! 

Oh Matty, we've had our fair share of ups and downs but it has been an amazing ten years! We have so many beautiful memories! We started out in our little White House house with black shutters on glenwood, I finished student teaching, got a job with Thomas County Schools, graduated, was surprised with Blakely the Christmas pup, joined a church that we love, then graduated again with my Masters, we bought our first house, joined an amazing service organization, survived your job loss, were blessed by a new amazing job, suffered a miscarriage, I won teacher of the year, and we became the mommy and daddy to two beautiful girls! We've experienced the loss of loved ones and sweet pets, went on wonderful vacations and get aways, and found joy in the little things...back porch dates, night rides on our side of town, downtown fun, football games, visiting family, going back to our college town often, birthday parties, so many little traditions in our town, house projects, worship music and scripture, Netflix marathons, anything with our girls, plantations and heart pine, and celebrating everything! I'm so so thankful for these ten years and am praying for many, many more! So now...the top 10, not really in any order!

1. Finding out I was pregnant, my entire pregnancy, and Molly Caroline's birth! And every minute with her since....

2. Finding out I was pregnant, my entire pregnancy, and Anna Claire's birth! And every minute with her since...

3. Dafuskie Island-riding through the woods and marsh in the dark searching for marshside mama's! Dreaming about bringing our family back! Next year it is!

4. closing on our house September 30th and hanging out on our front porch with Blakely! 

5. The day you got hired with EMSI! The job was a gift from the Lord. After many, many interviews and notes stuck all over the walls all for that one job, you got news that the job was yours! What a process!

6. Getting Blakely! Seeing her walk around the corner that Christmas and come directly to me and sit in my lap. She's been a mama's girl ever since.

7. Charleston-we love SC but it was a summer to celebrate and heal. Your new job. The miscarriage. Such a much needed trip!

8. Graduating with my masters! That was a long two years of driving to Valdosta twice a week and working full time and homework and being newlyweds. I made lifelong friends though! My seasons and you got frusbands.

9. drives on our side of town-our taste is exactly the same!

10. time at home-back porch dates and late night Netflix marathons...our time after the babies are asleep! I look forward to it daily! 

I wanted to put up pictures recapping 10 years of marriage, but we have too many good special photos! I guess that is what this blog is for anyway. To look back at them all. Happy 10th Anniversary, hubs!