An amazing TEN years!

I am truly blessed to be married to my husband for 10 years, as of today. So much has happened since we signed the ketubah and I walked around him seven times under the chuppah. Two interstate moves and three kids, for starters. We've also grown together with our Jewish observance and it's brought us to the place where we're at now.

In honor of 10 years, I am sharing 10 things that happened in 2004, the year we got married. Some are personal and some are interesting facts.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won the Oscar for Best Picture. (As Star Wars fans would say, "There was only one return and it wasn't of the king!" -Clerks 2)
2. I scored 200 in bowling for the first and only time.
3. Avenue Q won the Tony for Best Musical, much to my chagrin at the time, since I was hoping it would be Wicked. However, I let down my grudge and saw Avenue Q a few years later and enjoyed it.
4. We bought our first house together, which was actually a townhouse.
5. George W. Bush was elected for his second term. This is just for the time capsule feel of this post that I mention it at all. 
6. The Notebook, 50 First Dates, Shrek 2, The Incredibles, Mean Girls, Million Dollar Baby, Napoleon Dynamite and Anchorman played in theaters.
7. Friends and Sex and the City have their final episodes. Veronica Mars and Desperate Housewives come onto the TV scene.
8. I didn't go to my 10 year high school reunion, but I had a special reunion with my friend Nienke from Amsterdam, who came in for a month around the time of our wedding. Also, most of my friends from high school were there too.
9. New England Patriots won the Super Bowl.
10. I became pregnant with our first child.

Happy Anniversary to my besherte! Looking forward to many more blissful years together!

Also, happy Bat Mitzvah to my cousin, who was the same age as my daughter when we got married.