Wednesday, June 17, 2015

An Ode to Philip through Our Favorite Songs and Pictures: Happy 10 Year Anniversary!


My love,

My goodness...10 years of marriage!What a blessing it is to be your wife.  I have loved you with all my heart since I was 14 years old. How lucky are we to have met our soulmates at such a young age. How blessed are we to get to spend almost our entire lives loving each other, growing up together, and supporting each other. But...

"Now here we are. How could we ever know? I new I loved you then, and I watched you grow. So it came to be that I raised you and you raised me. We're lucky that way, cause our love will never fade." 


Life isn't always easy, but with you everything we do seems like an adventure! From trips we have taken, to raising our boys, our life is always filled with laughter, fun, and stretching ourselves to make the most out of every second we have together. When we got married, we said this prayer to God, and oh how he has answered.

"We pray you'll be our eyes and watch us where we go. Help us to be wise in times when we don't know. Let this be our prayer. When we lose our way. Lead us to a place, guide us with your grace, give us faith so we'll be safe" 



 The Lord has given us wonderful careers that we both love, and the best part is that we get to share our love of education together. But at the end of the day, we still get to come home to each other and love and raise our three beautiful miracles. He has blessed us with the desires of our heart, and multiplied his blessings three-fold. I know the days are long, but the years are short, and I am so thankful to have you by my side to experience life together! Even when we want to pull our hair out from the loving chaos, you remind me that...

"It won't be like this for long. One day we'll look back laughing at the week we brought them home. This phase is gonna fly by if we can just hold on. It won't be like this for long." 



I am so proud of the man that you are and the man that you have grown to become. You love me and our boys, and work so hard to keep us happy every day and provide for us. We see that, and we think you are the most amazing man in the world. I look to the future and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you growing old and having adventures, be them little everyday adventures or big blow your socks off adventures! And in all of these times...

"I cross my heart, and promise to give all I've got to give to make all your dreams come true. In all the world, you'll never find a love as true as mine." 



I can't wait to see what is to come of these next 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years together. I pray that God will continue to bless us and use us to make the world a better place. And through all of this, I am so thankful that God gave me you, because no matter where we are in the world, or what is happening around us, we will always know that...

"Love is the answer at least for most of the questions in our hearts. Why are we here? Where do we go? And how come it's so hard? It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving, I'll tell you one thing it's always better when we're together." 



Yeah! It's always better when we're together! Happy Anniversary my love! I will love you for eternity!

Love,
Katherine

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