This year on November 11, my husband and I will celebrate 10 years as a couple. Although we have only been married for two years, we have been together forever and know each other very well. We have a decade down and forever to go. In this post, I will share memories and pictures of the past 10 years starting with the year we met, 2005.

2005 Memories:

• We met through Greek life at Kennesaw State.
• Our first date was my sorority dance with friends and then we went camping afterwards.
• We started dating and went out to parties and restaurants.
• We went to his fraternity Christmas party and celebrated the holidays together.
• We rung in the New Year together.

2006 Memories:

• We both celebrated our 21st birthdays.
• We started officially dating on St. Patrick’s Day.
• We went to Ryan’s great uncle’s lake house for the first time together over July 4th weekend.
• We went to a lot of concerts together.
• Ryan met my family from California during a visit for my brother’s college graduation.
• We had our first time apart when I went to Israel.
• In August, Ryan gave me his Greek letters to wear, a lavaliere. I had a candle pass ceremony with my sorority.
• We had a very nice anniversary date to celebrate 9 months.

 

 

2007 Memories:

• I landed an internship at the TowneLaker Magazine and Ryan landed his at Childspring International.
• We went to my sorority formal together, the Purple Iris Ball in Atlanta.
• We went to the lake house in Tennessee again. This time for a long weekend.
• We also went to Ryan’s Roseball fraternity formal in October.

2008 Memories

• We both graduated college this year. I graduated in May, and Ryan graduated in December.
• Upon graduation, I was hired for my first job out of college at the same magazine I interned at.
• We attended our last fraternity and sorority formals. Ryan’s Roseball was in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
• We went on our first big vacation together. We flew into LA, spent time with my family, and then drove up the coast to San Francisco and back.
• We went to our friends’ weddings.

2009 Memories:

• In January, we went on a cruise to the Bahamas.
• In February, I unfortunately was laid off from the magazine due to the economy.
• In March, I started working at Life University.
• In April, we went to New York City for the first time for a long weekend.
• I moved out of my parent’s house and into an apartment with roommates.
• Ryan started prosthetics school at Northwestern University in Chicago and took online classes.

2010 Memories:

• Ryan moved to Chicago for three months to finish up prosthetics school at Northwestern for the hands-on portion of his program.
• We had a long distance relationship during that time and we got through it.
• April started the Staff Newsletter at Life University.
• Ryan graduated from Northwestern and started his prosthetics residency.
• We celebrated our five year anniversary with dinner at Shout and stayed at the W hotel.
• April got a second job writing freelance for Patch.com.

2011 Memories:

• We got snowed in for a week at my apartment during the big storm.
• We went to Hilton Head over July 4th weekend.
• We moved in together in July to the Vinings area.
• We went to a friend’s wedding at Villa Christina and loved it so much we ended up getting married there two years later.
• We got our first Christmas tree for our apartment and decorated for Chanukkah and X-mas.

2012 Memories:

• We fostered a very cute kitty for a week. Wish we could have kept her!
• We found a new hobby- archery! We shot bows and arrows at an archery learning center.
• Ryan became a Certified and Licensed Prosthetist.
• April started her personal blog here on WordPress.
• We got engaged on September 12th! We started planning our wedding and set a date.
• My parents found out they had to move to Texas the next year for my dad’s job.
• We spent the Christmas holidays with my in-laws in Florida and went to the Florida Keys.

2013 Memories:

• We continued to plan our wedding and registered for gifts.
• My brother and sister-in-law got engaged! We attended their engagement party in Baltimore, Maryland.
• We had our engagement photo session.
• My parents moved to Texas and we moved into their house here.
• I had two bridal showers and a bachelorette party.
• We got married! **September 29, 2013**
• We went to Kauai, Hawaii for our honeymoon.
• I totaled my Camry in an accident and then we bought a Volvo station wagon for me to drive.
• Ryan got into photography and videography.

2014 Memories

• My brother and sister-in-law got married in Cancun, Mexico. What a fun destination wedding!
• We survived Snow Jam 2014. Ryan got stranded overnight in his car.
• We attended and were in a lot of family and friends’ weddings.
• We went to San Francisco for my cousin’s Bar Mitzvah and then went on our anniversary road trip to Vancouver and back. We stopped in Napa, the Redwoods, Portland and Seattle.
• We celebrated our first wedding anniversary!
• Ryan started his photography and videography business.
• April was hired as a freelance writer for the Atlanta Jewish Times.

2015 Memories:

• We both turned the big 3-0 this year!
• April wrote a cover story for the Atlanta Jewish Times.
• Ryan published his website and his photography and videography business grew.
• We went to Las Vegas in April for the first time. We also went on a Grand Canyon tour.
• Ryan made a short film and entered it into a contest.
• We bought a new car and swapped vehicles with family, so we’re both driving different cars now.
• We celebrated our second wedding anniversary at a museum and had dinner where we got married.
• We have travel plans to go to Texas soon and visit my parents. We are going to Florida for Thanksgiving with Ryan’s family.
• And much more to come!

I’m looking forward to many more decades of happy memories with my husband, Ryan. Happy 10 years babe!