nine years.

{beautiful tulips cory brought me home}

cory and i celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary yesterday. what a wonderful nine years it has been. it has been filled with many, many memories. i made a slideshow for cory with pictures over the years. at first i started out thinking i'd just include the pics of me and cory, but soon realized that pics of me and cory don't tell the whole story, and plus, quite frankly, there's not many of them! i had to include pics of those precious babes that Heavenly Father has entrusted us with. we are nothing without them. cory and those four kiddos are the very best part of me for sure. i got really emotional {cried like a baby} as i watched it with cory. i was overcome with gratitude for our beautiful life and family. we have had our own struggles and hardships as any family does, but the best part about those struggles is that we go through them together and they continue to make us stronger.

happy anniversary to my sweetheart. 

here's to many, many more years to come.