Looking back on OUR decade

So as we spent the very low-key night bringing in the new year, Jesse stated, "We met 10 years ago....this was OUR decade!" :) Very true honey. And what a decade it was!

Some of the highlights include:

Meeting on a cold December day

Our first date to see Toy Story 2....and then Jesse's car breaking down. :)

Asking me out in espanol!

Dating which includes:

Prom in the decked out Uhaul

The next year flying to Chicago before the prom

Repelling

the boat...that did NOT float

really LONG phone conversations

picnics in the field

high school marching band practices

pep band games

Roses in my locker

Letters to one another

QH family camp every year

Jesse's family becoming my own

Graduating from High School

Jesse going to college...I joined him two years later

Jesse helping through that first year at UIndy

Jesse spending a month in Mexico

Meeting my biological dad

The proposal!

The RA and RD years at UIndy

Getting Eli, our puppy

THE WEDDING!!! <3

The honeymoon!!! :)

Graduating from college as Jesse graduated from Grad school :)

Moving to St. Louis

Getting pregnant!

Jesse getting his first post-grad job!

Going to social work classes at Wash. U.

Finding our church, The Journey

Meeting incredible people from the Malone/Stark community group

HAVING LEE!

Buying an apartment building

Buying a car....while saying goodbye to my beloved Saturn! :(

All of Lee's "first's"

first words

eating baby food, then real food

walking before crawling

first time we knew he understood us (we asked him if he was ready for a bath)

first and second Christmas

Lee's FIRST birthday

Going to South Africa!

Graduating from Wash. U.

Getting my first post-graduate job

Jesse going BACK to school....I don't think he will ever stop :)

Lee's baby dedication

Jesse's first promotion

and many more I can not think of right this minute

It's been a really great last 10 years! It, mostly, flew by. I'm amazed with everything that has happened in this short amount of time. But most of all,

I can NOT wait for the next 10 years!

Happy New Year!