Ten Years together!

Happy anniversary Chad! Ten lovely years together-they have flown by!!!!!!!!

Chad and I met each other on Thursday, January 13th, 1994. I had gone to Granville Towers (a UNC dorm) with my new Peace College roomie, Catherine Lamm. Chad was the quiet one in the corner, deejaying the music. It took a bit for him to talk, but eventually we were dancing together in the dorm and by the time we took off to see Sex Police (a band), we were holding hands like we had been dating for months. Two weeks later, on a Friday night (January 29th), we established we were dating. Oh, and I forgot to tell the part about when his good friend, Steven Stewart, told me he thought Chad was interested, I went running down my dorm room hall and actually got int trouble by my RA, for being too loud and disruptive (imagine!:>). Then came four and a half years of on-and-off dating, and carrying on an LDR. We had good times and bad, like any couple.

ON July 11, 1998, we tied the knot at 3pm, at First Baptist Church, in Wilson, NC. After a honeymoon trip to Florida, we moved into an apratment together. We bought our dog Scooby in August of 2000, and two months later, moved into our home in Willow Springs, where we still reside. On Febuary 11th, we bought Graham and Sydney into the world and we have all lived happily ever since!

So, this past week, we did something to commemorate our lives together. They are mostly used in weddings, but we just did a casual thing at the dining room table. It's called sand unity. People are replacing unity candles with vases of sand, where they combine different colors to represent each other.

So, here is ours:

The dark brown represents Chad, the lighter color is me. Then we blended the two to represent our marriage. Then came blue (for Graham), then pink (for Sydney), and then we all poured our sand in together to represent us as a family. The kids also made their own separate bottles to keep in their rooms.

Thank you to our families and loved ones, who have supported us through the years.

We love you~