10 Years of Marriage

It is hard to believe, but we have actually been married now for 10 years! Our anniversary, Friday, May 16, saw us on Interstate 20 headed east to Georgia - with all four kids and the in-laws along! Not in a million years would I have imagined on our wedding day that we would be celebrating a decade of marriage not only with our four kids and Troy's parents at a missions conference in Georgia, but that we would be staying at 2 completely different homes as well! Thankfully, we're not the kind that needs a fuss - aka an expensive hotel in a tropical location (although if someone were to offer to give us a "fuss", I doubt we'd turn it down). The one thing that was the same as on the day of our wedding was what we ate for supper. Our wedding night supper feast consisted of pizza eaten at a Pizza Hut in Ottumwa, Iowa. 10 years later, we ate pizza delivered by a Papa Johns in Douglasville, Georgia. In the decade we've been married, we've had 4 children, graduated from college, moved to an entirely new state (aside from the 3 years my parents were missionaries in Burundi, Africa, I'd never moved out of Iowa), Troy graduated from seminary, and we've been accepted to Mexico as missionaries with OMS International. At the end of the next decade of marriage, we will have nearly completed 2 terms as missionaries, will have an 18 year-old ready to begin college, a 17 year-old, a 14 year-old, and a 12 year-old (4 teenagers - pray for us!) A lot will happen by the time we mark 2 decades together as a couple, but we are thankful for all that we have been blessed with and accomplished with the LORD's help during these past ten years.