Nine Years

While visiting my in-laws in Utah, I like to scour their bookshelf for something interesting to read.

And I always find something.

This time I found a book called, Thoughts For An LDS Mother, written in 1967.

There is a section about becoming a better wife & these words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow struck me:

Though she bends him, she obeys him,

Tough she draws him, yet she follows,

Useless each without the other.

Wednesday was our anniversary- March 28th. I've been going through some pictures, and found these gems from our first years of marriage & when our babies were tiny.

 Oakland Temple

 First Christmas married, 2003

Summer in Utah, I've got Anna in my tummy!

Anna at 6 weeks & James at 2 years

 Anna's blessing day

 Sailing, swimming & playing at the lake, 2007

As the poem says, useless each without the other.

In a way, that's how I feel: Adam completes me.

I can't believe how blessed & lucky I was to meet Adam.

The moment he walked into that kitchen in the institute at Cal Poly, and met my eyes across the room, I knew.

He was the one for me.