18 Years............feels like yesterday!!!!

 Time flies when you're having fun, right!!!  Well, that couldn't be more true.  In many ways it feels like it was just yesterday that Jim & I got married.  In other ways, it feels as though we've always been together!!  In January we celebrated 18 years as husband & wife.  What a blessing it has been!!  I look back at our wedding pictures & we look like babies!!  But we took on the world & have never looked back.  When we first started out I was finishing my teaching degree & Jim was a brick mason.  He was ready to launch his own brick business.  During this time he decided that he wanted to finish a degree.  And his love for biology & vet medicine flourished.  Before I knew it we he was applying to Auburn Veterinary School.  That brought about lots of changes for us........the move alone was huge!!  I had never lived anywhere but Athens. We spent 4 years in Auburn while Jim went to vet school.  I also went back to cosmetology school.  Then I finished out my time in Auburn working in a hair salon.  He graduated & we moved to Prospect, Tennessee.  He worked at a vet clinic in Pulaski & I worked at a hair salon right next door.  It was so great..........we got to ride to work together almost everyday!!!  In 2005 we discovered that we were expecting Ava.  I say all the time, if we had known how much fun kids were going to be, we wouldn't have waited so long to get started!!  We were so excited to be having a sweet baby girl!! Shortly after Ava was born we decided to sell our house in Prospect & build a house in Elkmont.  While we were building we moved back into the house we lived in when we first married!!!  We rented it while building our new house.  Then in 2009 we were expected our second little bundle.  That was also a very joyous day when we found out it was another girl!!!  PINK PINK PINK!!!  During these early baby years, Jim started working at a clinic in Athens & decided we needed to live in Athens.  With 2 young kids it would be so much more convenient for me to be close to town for running errands & such.  It would also allow Jim to be on the road & away from us less. Then the time came for Jim to build & open his own clinic.  Eastside Animal Hospital opened in the fall of 2010.  We've been blessed by Jim's work & it has made it so that I get to stay home with our girls.  After a few years of city life Jim decided he had had enough........he needed animals & he needed to be able to stretch his legs some.  So we bought a some land in Ardmore, Tennessee.  For the past two years we've been getting our little farm the way we want it.  And LIFE IS GREAT...........wouldn't change a thing!!!  

Here are just a few pictures of our family date for our 18th anniversary!!  We laughed when the girls asked if they could go on a date with us.......but then we decided that we'd like nothing better than to have our girls with us to celebrate!!!  We had supper at PF Chang's.  This is a family favorite!!!  Of course, that is where we got some pictures.........while waiting for our table!!

The girls always pose with the horse!!!  It is tradition!!   

These 3 are my world............my greatest blessings!!! 

Then each of the girls wanted to take a picture with me in it...........

Little did we know that Daddy had a big surprise for us girls..........he had made reservations for us to have dessert at The Melting Pot.  This was a first for the girls & I think they loved it!!!  

I don't remember the name, but we got some kind of s'mores pot & some kind of turtle pot..........DELISH!!!!  

This should be against the law!!!!

Mmmmmmmmmmmm..............

This is the BEST life ever for us!!!  Thank you so much for taking a peek at our 18 years!!!