I decided on being a devil this year for Halloween. While at my parents’ house the other day, I was looking through old photo albums and saw pictures of my first Halloween where I was a devil. Just perfect! Of course I look cuter back in 1985. I have no doubt that Tyler and I will make beautiful blond babies some day.

{P.S. Thank you so much for all your comments about my Grandma. I’m truly blessed to have great family, friends & bloggers for support. You’re all amazing!}

Tonight at 8:15PM, it will be our 10 year anniversary of being together! I can’t believe it’s been 10 years. I feel young but at the same time I feel old if it’s been 10 years already! And who says we can’t have two anniversaries?

We have a special story that we can tell our children some day. That we’re high school sweethearts. We never broke up or took a break. Sure, there were some bumpy rides along the way but not bumpy enough to break up. Even though there may have been some conversations of breaking up a few times but we never did. We even survived a long distance relationship from 11-12th grade. We even survived during the difficult times where people doubted our relationship especially some of our high school friends. Some of them even encouraged us to break up during our long distance relationship. That proved our love was strong enough to keep the bad influences out of our relationship.

We survived all of that and here we are 10 years later! I still look forward to seeing him everyday after work. Even when we fight, we can never stay mad at each other for long. It’s like a fight you have with your siblings where sometimes you forget you’re mad at each other 10 minutes later. We have our moments…of course, we’re not perfect but still very much madly in love!

I’m looking forward to the next 10 years with Tyler….even the pretty children we’ll have in the next few years!

P.S. I think it’s so cool that our 10 year anniversary is on the same day that William & Kate got married!

I saw Megan & Doniree do this and so I thought I’d do the same thing.

Sammamish, WA. I was born in Bellevue at the same hospital where my mom was born and by the same doctor. This was the perfect neighborhood to live in when it came to Halloween & Christmas time. All the neighbors were fully into the holidays. This house was best for sliding down the long hallway in socks and going up the homemade attic in the garage which was my little getaway with my girlfriends.  Disclaimer: the yard did not look this horrible when we lived there.

Anthem, AZ. We moved when I was 16. I was not happy that we had to move away from all my other family relatives, Tyler and my friends. The whole time I was just itching to get out and go to college and be with Tyler. Most of my time was spent online, at the gym and swimming at the country club pool.

Rochester, NY. The day came when Tyler and I both moved to New York to go to RIT. We spent 5 school years in New York living in different places: the dorm, on-campus apartment, and off-campus apartment. Living in New York really made me realize how much I really missed living in Arizona.

Anthem, AZ. After graduation, we moved back to Arizona after Tyler decided to move with me. We lived in the casita that’s attached to my parents’ house. I really wish we lived with my parents a little bit longer to save money but we didn’t. We only lived there for 2 months until we both found full-time jobs.

Paradise Valley, AZ. Instead we moved into our own apartment in the valley closer to work. It was indeed paradise at first until we ran into problems with our annoying neighbors downstairs who really enjoyed reporting every small thing on us. We were more than ready to move out again and not re-new our lease.

Anthem, AZ. We started looking for a house to purchase and ended up finding our dream home 3 miles away from my parents’ house. The location is perfect! We made the move back to Anthem and started a new chapter of our lives with 30 years of payments to make.