10 Years

Gene and I celebrated our TENTH anniversary on Thursday. Ten years! Gene likes to say that we made it!

We celebrated all day long with some of our favorite things, interspersed with work and kids' activities, of course! We met for lunch at Cafe Express at the MFAH and toured the John Singer Sargent watercolors exhibit. 

Then Nana came over to babysit so we could go out to dinner. On our way to dinner, we realized we were two blocks from the church where we were married, so we stopped by for a quick photo. 

All Saints Church in the Heights.

For dinner, we chose to try Coltivare, a new Italian restaurant in the Heights. Coltivare is owned by the creators of Revival Market and focuses on fresh, local cuisine. The restaurant even has a "backyard garden" where much of the produce on the menu is grown. We sat on the back patio, overlooking the beautiful garden, and enjoyed a lovely meal and better company.

We finished dinner before 8 o'clock, so we decided to take advantage of the museums' extended Thursday hours and visit the CAMH, the Cullen Sculpture Garden at the MFAH, and the Glassell School's student exhibition. On our way to the Museum District, we drove right past La Colombe d'Or, where we had our wedding reception.

The first ten years of our marriage have been busy, wonderful, exciting, sometimes challenging but also better than I could ever imagined. I know we both look forward to many, many more years together. We are a good team and I can't imagine traveling through this life without my sweet husband.