10 years ago......

We got married. May 31, 2000. We can't believe how fast the time has gone, and how much has changed in the last ten years. Last night we celebrated with a night away. Dinner at Sapa, Laser U2...since Bono ditched us next week for back surgery, and stayed over night downtown. It was such a great time and it was fun to chat and think about the last ten years, and the beginning of our family.

Tonight we got the kids together and told them that tomorrow is the 10th birthday of our family. We looked at wedding photos and told stories of our wedding day. They were surprisingly fascinated by the whole nostalgia trip. We all loved reading all the inscriptions our friends and family left in our wedding book on our big day. Lucy spotted one photo of us kissing within the branches of a tree and started singing, " True love's kiss," and laughed and laughed. It was a fun trip down memory lane.

Some things that have happened in the last decade:


Drove across the country together to start life in Washington, D.C.
Ryan started law school
I started my first job out of college on Capitol Hill
Made our first life long couple friends
Trips to New York City, Boston, Duck Beach, Virginia Beach, Amish Country, Williamsburg, Monticello, Annapolis, The Jersey Shore, Baltimore, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and environs.
Lots and lots of trips to Utah......including a surprise trip to announce our first pregnancy.
Rex Gregory Bell
Graduation from Law school
Moved back West
Ryan passed the Bar
Ryan started his year long clerkship with the Federal Court
I found out I was pregnant again
We bought our first house, and almost the very first one we looked at in the very neighborhood I was dying to live in
Ryan started work at his first law firm
Trips to Portland, San Francisco, etc.
Lucy Rose Bell
Took the kids on their first trip to the beach
All our old friends started moving back to Utah
Ryan moved to a new firm
Molly June Bell
Turned 30 and took a girl trip back to New York City to celebrate
I ran a half marathon
Ran the Wasatch Back together
5 trips to Sun Valley both familes and with friends
A great family trip to Moab with friends
Five of our siblings got married
Three grandparents passed away
Ten Thanksgivings (one in New York with Ryan's brother's family, a few in D.C. with friends, one at the Grand America with Grandma Glo, lots with family)
Ten Christmases (One bringing a baby home from the hospitol, one taking a two year old to the hospital for a week, one taking another two year old to the doctor for an allergic reaction)
10 summers (Beach trips with both families, Disneyland, Legoland, Sea World, lots of swim days at my moms, bbqs on the deck, summer parties in the neighborhood, soccer games, Sunday walks, bike rides, hiking, working in the yard, snow cones at Jolleys)
A great trip to Playa del Carmen, Mexico just the two of us


Somewhere in there, we may have grown up, almost.