One decade.

Look at these two BABIES?? How was it ever possible that our parent's said it was okay for us to get married? We look like we are 14! Haha. I know I have said it before but honestly I was wise beyond my young and naive 19 years when I decided that Nathan was the one for me. It IS the best decision I have ever made.

I can HARDLY believe that the big 1-0 is upon us today. Our actual anniversary is TODAY May 9th.. I am sure lucky to have BOTH my anniversary AND Mother's Day right by each other. The two most cherished roles in life....mom and wife all celebrated over the same weekend!!

My sweet brother and his good wife agreed to take on the task of dealing with all things STARNES BOYS while we escaped over the Teton Mountains to the beautiful city of Jackson Hole. Last time we drove over the mountains was back in the summer with our boys with an overheating van. It included many stops at repair shops and MUCH yelling (from me) and overall tension. THIS time however, it was calm relaxing and peaceful as we drove together....ALONE with no car issues at all. ☺

We even saw some wildlife along the way! (fox, moose, and deer)

We had such a WONDERFUL time together. We ate lots of GREAT food. We went out to the Silver Dollar at the Wort Hotel for our official "anniversary dinner." YUM! I always take pictures of food...I always associate good food with good memories. Nate had some buffalo since we were in Jackson and all. It sounded nasty but I tried a small piece...tastes the same as steak.

After taking this picture I told Nate we look WAY too cheesy and happy to still be married after 10 years. So here is our fake fighting picture:

Other highlights of our trip include:

Hot tubbing outside in the rain:

The fireplace and HUGE jacuzzi tub in our hotel room. We dumped an entire bottle of bubble bath in there and the bubbles were overflowing onto the floor. It was out of control and SO HILARIOUS! I'll skip the photo on that one. You're welcome.

Going to Ripley's Believe it or not museum. SO MUCH FUN!

Here is a small sample of some of the crazy strange items in there:

The toilet paper wedding gown:

The artwork made entirely from dryer lint:

Nate's favorite was the chandelier made from bicycle chains:

How about some beautiful jewelry made from HUMAN HAIR?

Or the bear that was killed by a porcupine. Well, he was actually in so much pain from the quills that he ran into a road and was hit by a car:

I took a little ride in the "love chair" so I could see what kind of a lover I am:

Apparently I am:

I won't disagree. Neither will Nate.

Doesn't he look so cute carrying my purse around? I ♥ it!

We went shopping at all of the little shops downtown. Unfortunately the weather wasn't that great but we bought us some SWEET dollar store umbrellas that kept us laughing the whole time. In other words.....JUNK.

I'm pretty sure that 10 years ago thought we would be spending our 10 year anniversary on a warm tropical beach far away from Idaho or Wyoming. Fast forward to today......kids, jobs, student loans, bills and more important goals seemed to get in the way of that. Realistically speaking....it doesn't matter WHERE we spend time together alone, we make the most of it. We laugh and giggle like we're honeymooners all over again and we continue to fall more and more in love. I wouldn't have wanted to go anywhere else. It was a perfect weekend. I told Nate in his card this year that true love is spending one day getting married and then spending each day after that being so happy and thankful that you did.

I wholeheartedly feel that way.

When we got engaged 10.5 years ago Nathan made a list of 10 things he loved about me before he popped the question. For our 10 year anniversary he made a list of 100 things. I told him he better get working on that 20 year list. 1000 things to love about me could take awhile! hehe.

Happy 10th Anniversary hon . Grow old along with me...the best is yet to be.