11 Years and Counting

Our wedding day, Salt Lake Temple 1998

Sam and I got married 11 years ago today. We got married on the Monday after Christmas, just like today. I remember it well because I had tried on my wedding dress on Christmas eve that year, a few days before the wedding and it was tight. I mean tight tight. My mom could barely get the zipper up. So I remember not eating much that Christmas in order to fit in my dress on the 28th. I don't recommend being hungry on Christmas. It was my biggest regret with a Christmas wedding. I've made up for it by bingeing on the 11 Christmases since.

To celebrate our anniversary, Sam and I are going to really live it up tonight. I'm thinking dinner and a movie. We'll probably go somewhere romantic like Goodwood BBQ and we'll get a cozy corner booth where we can gorge ourselves on the chicken nachos with no one watching. Then off to a movie.

The two of us bingeing. This is obviously a re-enactment. We usually both have our faces buried in our plates and we fight over every last bite.

Then it will be back home where I will slip into something sexy like my old pink pjs that Sam gave me the Christmas we got married. Yes, I'm still wearing them, pregnant and all. They're piling a bit and a little dingy but that just adds to their appeal. I'm surprised Sam can keep his hands off me when I wear them.

In all seriousness, I'm more grateful for Sam every year. He continues to make me laugh and he puts up with a lot of insanity. He is my best friend and I love him.

So babe, let's go celebrate with a couple of bottomless diet cokes and a pulled pork sandwich!

If you are really desperate for something to do and you want to read how we met, go here.

I Got You Babe

Salt Lake Temple 1998

Sam and I got married 10 years ago today. I can hardly believe how fast those 10 years have gone. Then I realize we've been through 2 apartments, 1 home, 7 cars, 3 kids, 4 degrees (2 undergrad, 2 law) and a bunch of hairstyles, and I guess it does feel like 10 years.

I don't know how I was so smart (0r so lucky) at 21 to have found Sam and somehow convinced him to marry me, but to this day, I consider it the best decision of my life (next to growing out my bangs!)

My brother's wedding 2001

We met on a warm spring afternoon in front of the Harold B. Lee library on BYU campus. Sam had snuck out of work and was enjoying a smoothie with his friend Nate's fiance Amy Bagley. Bagley was a friend of mine since kindergarten and she introduced us. After that, Sam called and asked me out. However, I thought it was another Sam I had already been out with on a horrible date and so I made up an excuse and turned him down. Later, I ran into Sam's best friend, Nate and he asked me why I turned Sam down. I figured out it was the new Sam and told Nate to have him call me again. Luckily he did and we finally went out.

Being obnoxious at my cousin's wedding 2006

On our first date, I was in tears from laughing so hard. I knew I would marry him. He was the funniest guy I had ever met. We went out four more times that same week. Sam and I grew up in the same stake (even though we never met growing up) and we knew a lot of the same people and places. He felt like home to me. We got married 9 months later.

Our marriage somehow survived the two of us attending law school together. I was Sam's TA for his property class. He used to joke that he was sleeping with the TA and still got a 3.0 in property.

Celebrating my 30th birthday in NYC 2007 (we celebrated Sam's 30th at Chili's)

Sam is an incredible dad, which is just a bonus since I wasn't even thinking of that 10 years ago. He has a very dry sense of humor, he is very generous, handsome and smart. He is my best friend. He has never complained about going to work each day so I can stay home. Most importantly, he makes me laugh everyday. Here's to many more years together babe!

With baby Ryan at my mom's house 2008