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It’s been 11 years since I married Jina…

// June 19th, 2009 // family

…and it’s been the longest decade+1 of my life.

Okay, I’m kidding. You know that. Jina knows that. I know that. But that’s one of the main reasons we’ve made it to 11 years.

We love to laugh, but we really love to do it together. We’re a constant source of entertainment for each other. If we have some boring dinner event to attend (like for work, etc), we always have a good time because we can make each other laugh.

There is much debate on who is actually funnier, but that’s a blog for another day.

We’ve been married 11 years. It’s actually still amazing to me that we’re in double-digits. Not that there was doubt that we’d get here, but that it’s been that long already. Truly, these years have flown by. Sometimes it was harder, sometimes easier, but never boring or slow.

And now things are even more exciting. We have a little girl in our lives that makes things very, very interesting.

Or tiring, whatever you want to call it.

We’re parents now, so things are different. We look at the clock around 8pm and are scared to say the phrase that’s become the elephant in the room.

“You ready for bed?”

I know for sure the years we’ve been together prepared us for what it would take to have a baby in the house, but it’s still been a challenge.

But I couldn’t imagine raising Lyla with anyone else but Jina. I’m so glad that our journey has brought us to where we are today. Even thought our lives have changed dramatically by adding this little bundle of joy, we’ve still maintained our sense of humor, our love for each other and our marriage.

We’re much more sleepy than at our last anniversary, but the past year has been one of the most exciting and eventful of our lives. I wouldn’t change a thing about it.

I look forward to year 12, which will come when we’re both 35 years old and officially make us married to each other for over a third of our lives.

Crazy.