an anniversary to celebrate!

On June 25th, Gabe and I celebrate 10 years of marriage. While this honestly has come faster than one could ever have anticipated (I hear the years just go by faster the longer you're together and the older you get), it can mistakenly appear to seem rather insignificant, comparatively speaking, to our parents and those who have been married even longer. Some time to just think about it and give thanks reminds us, it is anything but insignificant! 

This marker will realistically get lost in the shuffle. We've never been big on actual dates/days to celebrate our anniversary, maybe something a little extra special (like dinner out) some 6 months later. Come this particular June 25th we will hopefully be winding down with opening another shop! By default, we will most assuredly be wrapped up in the throws of busyness and details too much to think about much else.

So... we wisely took advantage for anything special on our recent getaway and turned it into a small 10 year anniversary precursor celebration of sorts. Turns out we're both just as simple, cheap, and easy to please as we were ten years ago! Walks together alone (after little 3 were sound asleep by 7 pm! and various families were readying their own younger gangs for bed before adult hang-out) provided the perfect opportunity to catch up and laugh. It seemed everything perfect and fitting, for us. And such a treat! Gabe never has time for walks?!

 

The older four stayed back for a few days between Grandma and Grammy, leaving us just Lemuel. We took the long way home that day through Keene, Keene Valley, and Lake Placid; the exact place we spent some time honeymooning. And most of it outside hiking many many miles together! I was tearfully happy and thankful just to stop for a (foggy) viewing and some pictures of  the range we tackled. Wow, what a time flash!?!?!

 

 

The miles and places we have covered in ten years. I can only hope for 60 more just like them! They have been awesome and simply amazing.

 

I love my husband.