Wedding Anniversary

10 years........Yes, I said 10 years............Today is our wedding anniversary. This is a photo from our reception. I walked down the same aisle as my mother only 31 years later. The ceremony was delayed about 20 minutes because I lost Phil's ring. My sister, God made her invisible that day, so she could break every speed law possible to get to our grandmother's house, find the ring and get back to the church.

During the ceremony, I was so nervous that my knees were shaking so bad when we sat down my whole dress was shaking and Phil couldn't stop laughing. We started a fire in the church with the unity candle display. After the ceremony, the wedding party all piled in the limo like prom night and laughed all the way to the park for pictures.

I remember being so excited to see all of our family and friends at the reception. We danced, drank and crammed cake in each others faces. The hall for the reception was brand new, we were the first wedding to use it. The floor was very slippery by the end of the night I had wiped out twice. I remember we took a few ballroom dance lessons so we could dance the whole floor.

Probably the funniest part was the day we picked up the rental car to drive to Toledo the next morning. The rental company could not find our reservation until we told them to look under my maiden name as we were getting married. The nice man at the counter upgraded us to a white Cadillac at no additional charge. So here we are early in the morning not showered yet Phil in his wife beater, glasses (didn't have his contacts in yet), ND hat driving down the highway in a pristine white Cadillac. He looked like he stole it. I laughed all the way.

As we left the reception, neither Phil nor myself could wear our shoes and we crammed Jon and Dixie (Phil's brother and sister in law), Justine and Ed (my best friend and her Hubby), Jen and Angie(my sister and her roommate), Phil and I and the designated driver. I have never seen so much formalwear in one tiny place before. We laughed all the way to the hotel and even sat outside and talked before we all went to our rooms.

It was defiantly a day I will never forget. Our 10 year journey has been amazing. I remember days I was walking on clouds (graduated from college, the day we found out Kaitlynn was coming, the day we found out #2 was a boy (Jackson), the day Madelynn was born just to name a few). I also remember some of our darkest days (Jack being sick a lot that resulted in 3 surgeries, losing very special friends and family, Madelynn's heart surgery days I don't care to remember but will never forget.

We have made it through just about everything and are still here. Happy Anniversary Pilbert!!!

XOXOXOXOXO

TTFN