Celebrating 10 years

10 years ago today I was saying my vows, dancing, and eating dinner at Chateau Elan.  My biggest Christmas worry was making it to the airport the next morning to get on our flight to the Bahamas.  I was a pretty "relaxed" bride.  I just wanted to enjoy the day and my friends and family who had come to celebrate with us. After 5years Hubby and I were ready for the next step, altough I can say at the time we could not even imagine the ups and downs and blessings the Lord had in store for us.

Today we celebrated by spending the day together. Just us, no kids (thanks Mom! :).  We had big plans to go zip lining and the weather was NOT agreeing with us, so I went to google and started searching for something new and different for us to do....

 See, I even had to wear my rain boots?  It was yucky all day :(

 We made a quick stop to eat breakfast and chill for a little bit at Atlanta Bread Company. Yummo. And it was only about 5 minutes from our destination! ( I was glad Hubby was on board with my idea :)

 We ended up in an office complex in Suwanee that's website boasted some of the best rock climbing in the area.  (and a great place for beginners!)  It cracked me up when we 1st got there and signed in b/c I kept saying we were both beginners and Hubby was like, you do know I work with rope and heights everyday right?! Ha! I never even thought about him using that stuff at work :)  I changed into some more comfy clothes (which I am SO glad I brought - it was really a work out!) and we got all strapped in.  ** Please note that the guy helping us was almost as tall as me on his knees. ha! We had a lot of discussions about height today... and how I WAS climbing as high as Hubby if you deduct the height correctly :P

 Yay for safety!  It took me about 30 minutes on the wall to really feel like I wasn't going to fall if I slipped, but that the ropes / Hubby would "catch" me.

 Look, we match :)

 Okay, here I go.  It was hard to get some pictures while we were climbing, since technically the other person should be holding the rope! But we made it work :)

 I think I was nervous about this one. I kept telling Hubby it wasn't the height that bothered me, just feeling like I was slipping of the wall.  After I did it once and realized I wasn't going to fall to the ground, it was a lot better.

 Hubby was a pro...I think he just scooted up every wall we tried.  The hardest part was when he was coming down.  We realized pretty quick if I brought him down to fast, I would start to go up with him. ( The guy helping grabbed my harness a couple of times...it helped :)  It was fun to do something where we were totally trusting each other to keep us stable.

 This wall was a booger.  I made my "goal" the large blue circle in the middle.  You had to do up a different level to get to it, which was not the easiest task of the day.  I actually went a bit further and was very proud of myself. (Even when the little girl, I would say around 8, scaled it with ease next to me :)  I don't  think it is a fair race until she does it at 32 too.

 Getting over that lip was not easy... I blamed my short arms a lot today :)

 On my way up!

 Hubby at the top!  (To be fair he could scale the wall in about 8 steps, it would take me 15 :)

 But on the last wall of the day I made it to the top too! Yay me!  My Hubby turned out to be a great encourager.  It was a lot of fun to do something I had no idea I could do today :)

 The facility was great.  I really look forward to taking the kids one day.  They had a couple of kids camps going on while we were there and the staff seemed really great with them.  Brother already can't wait to be old enough to go :)

 They had a cute wall in the back that kids could climb up and slide down the slide.  In the beginning I was a little worried I was going to end up over there. ha!

 The people there were great.  They really helped us feel at ease climbing and were there to answer any questions we had.  I am looking forward to going back with Hubby soon. It would be a perfect date night!

 Check it out on the web if you are looking for something new to do... we highly recommend it!

 After our "adventurous" morning, we headed to lunch at Longhorn- YUM!  We spent the rest of the day finishing a few things on our Christmas list and dodging some of the crowds.  We couldn't wait to get home and see our kiddos and hear about their day.   Cookie had made sure to bring some fun things to do...honestly I don't even think they had time to miss us :)

We don't always celebrate our anniversary since it is so close to Christmas, but today was a lot of fun.  I am glad  we took the time out of a BUSY week to focus on each other. Love it!

And lastly...my 10 favorite things over the last 10 years:

(1) Our growth in the Lord (joining FBL in 2002 / being (re) baptized in 2009)

(2) Brother finally joining our family (2006)

(3) Sister completing our family(2009) 

(4) Family Memories / Vacations (Disney World / Disneyland / Beach)

(5) New friends and old friends...we have been blessed beyond measure!

(6) Family who love us unconditionally

(7) Fire station holidays (gotta love them!)

(8) Finding careers that we both love and knowing that we are where the Lord wants us.

(9) Understanding that the Lord's timing is always best...we have SO many examples in our life.

(10) Trying new and fun activities with the people I love, because that is how we roll...