10 Reasons Why
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Last Friday was a big day for my hubs and I…our 10 year wedding anniversary! We celebrated by falling asleep early in someone else’s bed (one of the kids’). Yes, we are *that* exciting, don’t you wish you were us.
I was inspired by Beth (and a post she linked to that I cannot find!) to post a pic and a “reason why” for each year we’ve been married, in honor of our blessed union amen. You’re about to get a whole lotta Jacob, so hang on to your hat…
1. He loved me even when I was pasty white (worse than now) and looked like I was 13 (probably because he did too).
2. He didn’t mind when my dad and brother made him pose like Spiderman, WITH Spiderman.
3. He jumped into fatherhood with both feet, never realizing the highs and lows that lie ahead.
4. He took me to the ocean and west coast living, which made me realize I’m a beach bum at heart.
5. He’s the perfect father, knowing exactly what his boys need.
6. And loves me through the hard times, as we watch our special needs boys grow and struggle and learn to navigate their world.
7. He made Italy an amazing getaway, showing me one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
8. And he rocks at falling asleep on command (or just any time he sits still).
9. He’s still the hawtest thing around…
Oh no, how did that pic get in here? Whoops…
10. And he puts up with all my shenanigans and thinks I’m the fun-est and funniest person on the Earth.
Love you hun.
P.S. Here’s a pic to make up for the rogue Johnny Depp appearance…who loves you baby…
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Okay, yes, the fact that you would post a photo of him with Jenny McCarthy makes you win Best Wife in the World for sure.
Congratulations! Gorgeous family.
SWEET! You lovies… 10 Freaking Years!!! WOW!
You’ll have to remind me to rock this in 5 more
For a split second, I thought YOU were Jenny McCArthy. I followed you here from your comment on Beth’s blog. I love this post. Congrats!!!!
Congrats! 10 years is impressive.
Love.This.So.Much.
Congratulations! Ten years is big. Those were great pictures, and a neat idea. We just celebrated our 15th anniversary, and I don’t know if I even have 15 pictures of us together! We purposely avoid cameras.
I love this post, Arianne. And I think I love your husband.
Happy 10 years. You guys are an example to the rest of us!
Congrats on 10 years together, this post made me giggle.
This post is awesome! And I’m pretty sure I have a pic of me that makes that one you look tan!!
Oh, and Happy belated anniversary!!!
Congrats on the 10 years! Rob and I just celebrated our 10th on May 30th so we’re only slightly ahead of you! :0 I have to say — you’ve got one heck of a man there - my husband took me to Disney World (which was fun) but a trip to Italy totally blows that out of the water! You guys are such a great couple and I wish you many, many more fun-filled years.
When exactly was your/is your anniversary?
Mine is tomorrow. 8 years of wedded bliss, but well over 10 years shockin’ and rockin’ this crazy world together.
I posted about it. And I put pix.
I know how impressive.
Ah, never mind, I just re-read your post and answered my question.
This was GREAT! I wish I had done it for our 10 year. You guys aren’t far behind us at all. Happy 10 years!
Hi ~ I came across your blog from someone else’s blog (4 little men, I think?) anyway, thank you. I originally went to the NWI magazine post w/regards to you having (2) son’s with autism (Stop staring @ me) and was very encouraged. This is something that our family has been going through more recently, I think because initially when our son was 2 years old he was starting to say words and then stopped. He hasn’t spoken a word per say, since around 18 to 19 months old, not 100%. He’s very smart and definately communicates with us, however he doesn’t have words. My husband and I fought with the term “autism” for sometime, more or less because it seems like this word more describes symptoms instead of causes and the spectrum is so vast that we definately didn’t want to place a “diagnosis” on our child that everyone was already pushing on him. We just recently decided jointly that we cared more about communicating with our son (Matthias) then w/terminology or stereotypes, because we see the ability and the desire in our son to communicate with us. At first he seemed content to play and to hug and smile, but as he’s maturing more (he just turned 4 on June 4th) he has gotten into the habbit of getting more upset then we’ve ever seen him, which still is pretty moderate and not unbearable, he’ll wine or cry and we get frustrated because we don’t know what he wants…anyway, we just completed the school district testing and have done (w/2 different insurance providers) speech tests, and hearing tests and he has been in speech therapy for about a month now, and we’ve seen improvement already. He will be starting developmental preschool with our school district in the fall. That’s not to say that we have just given up and filed it away, we’ve begun reading as much time allots (we have 3 other children) and coming to the same conclusion after re-examing our shot records, we had fallen behind slightly and it was around the time I mentioned previously that he stopped saying, Mom, Dad, ect. He’d always been a quiet boy, so it was so gradual, and our daughter who is older than Matthias started talking when she was 3 so we waited, but the longer we waited the more uncomfortable it made other people, we I suppose were a bit niave and protective of Matthias. We didn’t want to just turn him over to dr.’s and be pressured into “doing what was best for him” we needed to be able to do this willingly and again we’ve just combined our efforts and are wanting to be our son’s advocate, and to be able to make decisions based on what is best for our son, at first we didn’t that that existed, in world of medicine anyway. So long story short, thank you for the information and for sharing your life and walk with this “illness”. It’s definately causing us (my husband & I) to dig deeper and I appreciate you putting this information out there.
Sincerely, Heather
This is such a great post.
Congrats on 10 years together. What a milestone! I look forward to reading about another 10 wonderful years on your 20th wedding anniversary.
I love you all soooo much!
Oh, I love this. You are so funny.
Steph
Congratulations!
Is that Cinque Terre in no. 7? I was there a couple years ago and I have never been as humbled as I was while walking the streets and trails.
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That was so sweet… you guys are an awesome couple. Happy anniversary!
Brittany
so sweet! happy anniversary!
So funny! Congrats! I just noticed you look a whole foot taller then Jacob in that first one! Which makes him look even younger! LOL
This was SO WONDERFUL to read, Arianne! You two are so meant to be together. What a special post!
Jane
OMG! You guys are the CUTEST couple!! I love reading posts like this… you can feel and see the love right in your eyes. It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.
I love it!!
- Audrey
what a nice tribute to your husband!
Beautiful tribute and beautiful pictures! I love the one in Italy!
Congratulations again to you and Jacob, Princess. A wonderful milestone.
Love,
Dad
happy happy anniversary!
here’s to many many many more.
xo ~K
What a sweet post.
Congratulations on 10 years!
These are great pictures. You and hubby are so cute together. Congrats on 10 years….He is a Keeper for sure!
SO glad that you found a good one! Happy Happy Anniversary!
Congratulations on 10 years! Love how Johnnie Depp snuck in…
Congratulations on your 10 years! How wonderful!! You know what I love about this post? It is that you can sincerely see the love for each other in your eyes and happiness in your smiles.
what a wonderful tribute to your hubby. he sounds like a great hubby and dad and he gives johnny depp a run for his money.
you both are so cute together. 
congratulations on 10 years! may you have many, many more ahead.
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Hope you had a wonderful anniversary. I love your blog.
I just saw this on Adoptic…yes, your in my bloglines….but I am soooo behind on my reading…anyway, I LOVED this post. Happy Anniversary to you!
Duh, this was a Father’s day post…can I just say I am sick and in the middle of moving and a blog tour…I did read your list I swear I did, I just kept thinking anniversary…