10 years!

"Love is knowing you will spend every day, of every week, of every month, of every season, of every year, for the rest of your life with this person and thinking 'This is exactly what I want'" I have been so blessed to be married to my best friend for 10 years and it has flown by. We have had so many fun times as well as difficult times, but what's important is that we've gotten through them together and are stronger for them. We've traveled the world together, bought houses, made career changes, raised two children and made a wonderful life for us. I couldn't have done it without him! We're celebrating our anniversary by treating ourselves to a trip to New Zealand in March, but on our actual anniversary in Sept, we took a weekend away in Bend just the two of us. The best part of the weekend was feeling like nothing had changed in the last 10 years, we're still able to laugh and enjoy each others company without the kids, able to have great conversation, and come back feeling refreshed and in love :) We rode bikes into town, had coffee, checked out Octoberfest going on in Bend and ended the night with a romantic dinner downtown. We had always talked about riding from 7th Mtn up to Bachelor, but didn't want to take the kids, so we saw this weekend as the perfect opportunity to make it happen. It was a hard ride straight up, but having accomplished it was a great feeling! It felt like a lot of times in our relationship when things got difficult, one of us was always there to help the other through it with encouragement and compromise!