So I don't think I have ever been this excited to celebrate an anniversary like I am now!! It is our big 10 year anniversary and I have never loved Jaafar more than I do now! I have been giddy thinking about our 10 year for over a year now! It is just so so amazing to me that I truly love that man more now then I ever did back then! I think he is way sexier now then I did back when we met, and I love spending as much time as I can get with him now even more so then I did when we first started dating! To put it plainly, I LOVE THE MAN LIKE CRAZY!!!!!! He is my everything and I tell him all the time that if I would have know how great our marriage would have been and if I would of known how much more I love him now, if I would have known how crazy madly in love we are now way back when we were dating, I would have married him sooner!! So I thought it would be cool to take 10 pictures of the most significant places/memories through out our relationship! It is kind of in a random order, but I am doing this at an airport, so work with me here!!!
WMU!! This was my freshman dorm! There were a few boys that picked me up at this dorm for a date, but there was only one that I was stalking from out my dorm window! I would wake up and watch out my window waiting to see Jaafar's teal ford explorer park in our parking lot! I would run down those 3 flights of stairs as fast as I could, then try to catch my breath before walking outside and "running" into him! I would also sit in my dorm room waiting to get a phone call from him!! See we didn't have cell phone's where you could just text a quick hello!! I remember listening to a few messages from my sweet Jaaf asking if I would go to the grocery store because he was out of soap at 10 at night!! I loved getting those messages!
Where all three of our babies were born!
Where Jaaf and I were married and the place our two older boys were dedicated!
Our first little house on Sunnyside Place! Boy do we have some serious memories here! If we made it through this little house, we can make it through anything!
Where we had our first official date! We watched the Matrix! It was the best movie I have ever seen, probably because I got to hold a super hot guys hand!!
Where we go to Church, where we serve, where our baby boy was dedicated and where our oldest boy was baptized! Where God has been moving in our lives and changing our hearts to be more like His! Where we have been challenged the most in our relationship to be completely committed to serving Christ and to make a difference in our world for Him and His kingdom!
Where Jaafar purposed!! He was so so nervous and so so humble and precious as always!! This is the place that I said YES a million times YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our first house that we bought on Autumnwood Drive! God taught us so much here! He humbled us and we learned that we would much rather live simple lives that please Him and are giving to Him, then extravagant lives that don't have room or time to please Him.
Where we had our first unofficial date! We had a few run ins at Dennys that eventually led to our first unofficial date! We stayed at that Denny's till 3 in the morning! From that day on all I knew is I wanted to be with Jaafar and spend more time with him! Praise the Lord he wanted the same thing and we were with each other every day after that till college let out for summer break! Then we had to take turns coming in from Tulsa and OKC!
Our house now! Oh the Lord has grown us here! So so many memories and life lessons I don't have enough time or space to write down! Our two youngest boys learned to walk here, we have had first lost tooth's here, we have had first birthday's, and many other big birthday's here, we have had first words, our oldest realized He wanted to follow Jesus for the rest of his life in this house, I could go on and on and on about all the memories this house holds. But more important then memories, the Lord has drawn us closer to Him! In this house I have heard His voice the loudest, I have felt a yearning desire to know Him, know His ways, and truly wanting to be used by Him for His glory no matter what the cost to us! This house is super small and at times feels like it is closing in on me, but I am thankful for my 4 boys that make us this small house! I am thankful for my God who has constantly sought me out at this house! I am thankful for the many movie nights me and my man have had in the house! I am very thankful for this house!
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IT'S GREAT THAT YOU HAVE RECORDED ALL OF THIS. JENNAH. EACH ONE OF YOU have so much to give and others are learning and being blessed by the informa-tion you are sharing. God will honor all of you in many, many ways. Just keep the Faith with God leading always. Gotta go now to be with Jim. He's been having a pretty rough time but "pain management" isn't easy for anyone. Love Always, Gramp & Gram
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