Fifteen years ago, as a Senior and my mind on my last year of high school and an upcoming play I was starring in, I for the first time in my young teenage life, was not thinking of boys.

Billy, a Sophomore in High School, then a wrestler and weight lifter, met me at a party and called me a couple of days later asking for a date.

I accepted.

Here we are in the early days of our dating life, hanging out in Billy’s room (I think it was Thanksgiving or Christmas)

A few months later, he took me to my very first Prom.

Ten years ago today, we married. Here we are posing on the front lawn in front of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church.

Here we are, with better hair (even though my eyes are closed) in Las Vegas last year.

Happy Anniversary, Turtle!