Tomorrow, July 13, will be Kristin and mine's tenth anniversary. In light of that, I've declared tomorrow a computer free day at our house, so I'm covering today and tomorrow with this entry.
And I figure I should focus on the Anniversary part of things for it.
Kristin and I met through church and the Aggie Baptist Student Ministry. I was the youth intern at Hillcrest Baptist here in BCS when she started attending there. I got the opportunity to be the interim youth and college minister when the guy holding those positions left for seminary, so I created a college student team of leaders- and Kristin was one of the ones on it.
We spent a lot of time together that summer, and I asked her out. It took neither of us too long to figure out this was something special, so on December 8 of 2001 I asked her to marry me. And on a rainy and cool July afternoon in 2002, we were married.
Over the last ten years, we've lived in Marlin, Seymour, and College Station- and a brief couple months with my Mom while we sold our house and bought a new one in College Station. We've seen awesome and terrible things- in life, in ministry, in careers. We've survived great stresses and enjoyed great victories and brought into this world two beautiful, intelligent, unique girls.
We've dreamed together, of hopes and futures. One dream, from early in our marriage, was to move back to College Station and work with college students. We had no idea that we would celebrate our tenth anniversary doing just that.
Like all couples, we've had our fights. Some legitimate, some trivial. But the good times vastly outnumber the bad. We've changed each other in that natural and healthy way couples do- she's softened me, and I've toughened her.
Tomorrow, we will watch our wedding video (and probably contemplate finally converting it to DVD) and we will spend the day with our girls at the pool and at home. We'll probably watch some Lost on Blu-ray. And when we send off the girls to gymnastics for Parents Night Out, we'll have a romantic dinner somewhere other than McDonald's. Someday, we'll get to celebrate our Anniversary in style, with an international trip or some romantic get-away.
But for now, we'll simply enjoy each other's company.
And really, isn't that what an Anniversary should be about?
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