Eleven Strong

Today is my 11th anniversary...Happy Anniversary Trey! We are way beyond newlyweds now!

I am so happy to have spent the last 11 years married to Trey, my best friend, my stronghold, my confidant. What's more amazing is that we have known each other for even longer. We met in high school -- he was a junior and I was a senior. Hard to believe that we have actually known each other and been together for nearly 20 years! We have gone through the teen years, the twenties, the thirties -- together. We have gone to Prom, funerals, weddings, Ring Dance (whoop!), midnight yells, and several horrible Texas A&M and Texas Tech games -- together. We made it through the death of his dearly missed grandmother and father, the death of my grandfathers and grandmothers, job disappointments, family issues, and several car wrecks and mishaps -- together.

And throughout it all our love has continued to grow stronger and more steadfast than ever before. Whatever stress or circumstance that goes on around us brings us even closer together. I am eternally grateful that the Lord brought a man to me that vowed to seek the Lord with his whole heart. Both of us knowing the Lord really made a difference in our marriage. It made me stronger seeing Trey want to know the Lord more personally.

We have seen each other grow up right in front of one another. What a journey it has been! We never could have predicted what the Lord had in store for us -- each moment bringing us closer to each other. The footprints left behind are the ones that developed us, that taught us how to keep moving forward. My hope is that we will continue to leave the footprints that our children will follow. That our strength together will be what they want to fashion their marriages after. But mostly, I want them to see that the core of our relationship was founded on our discipleship with Christ.


Trey has always been the romantic at heart. When we first met in high school and started dating I would always wake up to find a Trey creation on my car. For months on end he would leave something that he had made -- a cardboard smiley face, a love note, and oftentimes flowers, would be left for me to discover EVERY morning. Sometimes I would find these creations on my car if I had been babysitting a few houses down from his. I still have some of these items and we recently got them out and giggled about how silly they seemed now. He actually spent quite a lot of time putting these things together! But these were special moments in time that the Lord was using to build our relationship.

Although I don't get flowers, special cardboard creations or cards as much now as then, I still cherish every hug, every I love you, every moment spent. And, he still has that romantic side too - I love how he can watch Breakfast at Tiffany's 10 times in a row without me watching it with him!

Thanks Trey for the past 11 years! Can't wait for what is ahead. The journey is so much better with you by my side -- and with the Lord walking beside us both.

I love you.