Hasses aren't only avocados.

...and then to ten amazing, loving years together.  Ten years of travelling around the world and staying in our backyard, seeing sites and sights together for the first time or the hundredth time.  Ten years of laughing and crying, often at the same time.  Ten years of phenomenal culinary experiences enjoyed alone and with family and friends, but always with gusto.  Ten years of growing in love even when losing loved ones.  Ten years of developing together in religion and spirituality.  Ten years of sharing good books and struggling through bad movies.  Ten years of sun, snow and the most colourful, beautiful autumns on God's blessed Earth.  Ten years of creating and then nurturing four inquisitive, hilarious, exhausting, outstanding children who demand a myriad more of adjectives.  Ten glorious years that Pater knows words and pictures can only partially capture, but here goes...

Here's to ten more years!  And then to lots of ten more years after those.  Because this English man cannot imagine a life without the inspiring, loving, caring, funny, beautiful Canadian woman who was merciful enough not to laugh when he got down on one knee in a wicker basket, but instead said, yes.