Ten years ago today my wife Rachel and I started dating. I can still remember it as if it were yesterday:

I tagged along with Rachel and her friend to see Scary Movie 4 (ha!). I don’t think she had any idea how I felt about her until during the movie I reached over and held her hand (give me a break I was 17). Fast forward Ten years and I couldn’t imagine a more perfect person to spend my life with. Here are just a few things about her that I’m consistently blow away by.

Her Beauty

She’s beautiful inside and out, one of the kindest most truly-beautiful people I know

Her quest for adventure

Not many girls will put on a helmet from the 70’s and go charging through the woods on an ATV, she loves it. We have fun.

She is a mother in every sense of the word

She loves being a mom, and is an absolutely incredible one. On top of working twelve-hour shifts at Childrens Hospital in Detroit she carries the responsibility of being an incredible mom to Emery. she loves our beautiful daughter and lives to see her loved and provided for. I couldn’t be more proud of her.

It’s true

Wedding anniversaries are special for their own reasons, but to be able to say at 27 that I have dated my wife for ten years is incredible, and I’m so lucky to have married my high school sweetheart. I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Thank you Lord for providing me with the perfect best friend to spend my days, weeks, months and years with.

Iloveyourachel.