Ree Drummond marked 28 years of marriage to her husband Ladd with an intimate look at their nearly three decades together.
The Pioneer Woman shared a slideshow of photos of her and Ladd through the years on social media Saturday along with a sweet message to her beloved cattle rancher.
“28 years. If you make it to the last photo, you’ll see a couple of people who are…okay, yes, slightly exhausted but oh so grateful we found each other almost three decades ago,” Ree wrote alongside the photos beginning with their wedding day.
“It has been an adventure, a roller coaster, a journey, an odyssey, and a blast. Not to mention fast! How can it be our 28th anniversary when we’re only 32?” she added jokingly.
Ree concluded the tribute with a nod to their five children: Alex, 27; Paige, 25; Bryce, 22; Jamar, 21; and Todd, 20. “I love you, Ladd!” she wrote. “And the kids. OMG, what if we hadn’t met?”
Ree and Ladd met in a chance encounter at a “smoky” dive bar, she told The Pioneer Woman magazine in 2021. Ree, who was in the process of moving between Los Angeles and Chicago at the time, made a pitstop in her hometown of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She went out for a drink with some childhood friends, and there, she ran into Ladd and had an “instant connection”—though it took him four months to ask her out.
The couple were married on September 21, 1996. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Congratulations, y’all!