Happy 10th Anniversary to My Sweet Stormtrooper

As I'm sure you can deduce from the title, today is our 10th wedding anniversary. How I'm old enough to have been married 10 whole years is beyond me! And boy, how the years have just flown by!

This was us 10 years ago. Please excuse the poor quality of the photo. It's in an album, and I didn't want to go to the hassle of removing it from its protective page.




I woke up this morning when Steven kissed me goodbye. He uncharacteristically just stood there, like he was waiting, so I rolled over and found that he'd placed a vase with pink roses on my nightstand. (Pink roses are my favorite flower, and they are what I carried on our wedding day.) I had to move them to the mantel to prevent a certain little kitty (*cough*Doogie*cough*) who is obsessed with water from knocking them over. On the mantel I found a bud vase with a single pink rose.



While Steven was waiting for me to discover the roses by the bed, he was whistling for our boys to come to him. He picked them up, one under each arm, placed them on the bed, and had them tell me, "Happy Anniversary, Mommy!" (Yeah, we're dorks who make our cats "talk.") They were each wearing a pink ribbon around their necks, which is a Big Deal. It's a joke in our house that I'm supposed to greet Steven at the door each night all dressed up, perfectly coiffed, and with happy kitties wearing ribbons around their necks. Of course, that never happens. So, not only did he wrestle ribbons on our boys this morning, but he put pink ones on them, which is something I'm not ever allowed to do because they're boys, and they don't like that (according to my husband).

By the time I got up with the camera, Calvin had already ditched his ribbon by the food bowls, but Doogie was still wearing his and looking quite picturesque.



Next I found a stuffed kitty wearing a pink ribbon, sitting on top of my morning newspaper (Steven retrieves my paper for me every morning), surrounded by more roses.



As a special gift, Steven bought me a first edition of my favorite book: The Chosen by Chaim Potok. Not only is it a first edition, but it's signed.




I'm feeling a little guilty now that all I've done for him is buy him a copy of Marvel Ultimate Alliance for the Wii. He's far more romantic than I.

Happy Anniversary to my love, my best friend. May we have many more happy years together.

Updated to add: I was in a hurry this morning when I posted because I was supposed to meet our youth group to play volleyball with them. I didn't find the rest of the roses until after I'd posted. My husband left me more roses in the kitchen, in the bathroom, and on top of the piano! Isn't he the sweetest?!