A decade's worth...

Song of the day: Mat Kearney's "Where Are We Gonna Go From Here"
(Lovely song by a lovely voice)

...of getting to know who Nathan Choy really is. We've known each other a decade now. We met when I was 21 and he was 22. Yesterday, it was his 32nd birthday. It's amazing to think we've known each other only a decade. I know it sounds long, but I feel like I've known him for longer. We've been through SO much in that short amount of time.

We met. We hung out...a lot! We took a jazz history class together. We worked out together. We started dating. I had a freak accident and had a burn on my entire face. He stood by me through it. We had our first huge argument; first of many to come. We went to weddings together. We said good-bye when I moved to LA. We did long distance. We got engaged. We fought for our love. We bought our first home together. We got married. We went on trips together all the time. We lived in a house for the first time as a couple (I never got to live in a house, always an apartment, so it was an odd experience for me). We had our first little gift, Kaia. We became parents for the first time. We got laid off. We moved to Oahu. We had our second little gift. So many amazing, life-changing, heartbreaking, wonderful things have happened over the past ten years. I am absolutely floored by how far we've both come individually and collectively. We started off on such opposite ends of the spectrum. Now, we're more alike than I ever thought could ever be possible. Sure, we still don't see eye-to-eye on most days, but we actually talk it through. We hear each other out and most times begin to understand and greatly agree with the other. That hardly ever happened when we first got married. God is good.

I'm thankful to God for keeping Nathan healthy and safe all these years. I'm so grateful for the godly man that He's molded him to become. I love that we laugh together still, even more so at times than before. He is a great father. He is a wonderful husband. He's a loyal and dutiful son and brother. We have a lot more heavy issues to "discuss" now. We have a lot more on the line with two amazingly beautiful daughters. At the same time, we have made it this far. I never thought the cute boy hiding in the back of the church behind the sound equipment that showed no interest in me would end up being my husband, my love. God is good.