“[Ten] years with my champion friend,” Thomas Rhett wrote connected Oct. 12, commemorating a decennary of matrimony to Laura Akins. Thomas, 32, shared a connection on with a montage of his and Lauren’s champion moments, from their wedding time to the days erstwhile they archetypal started a family. Thomas reflected connected the past decennary with Lauren, 32, and said that helium “legit don’t cognize sometimes if you are a existent idiosyncratic oregon an Angel. I could not a dreamed up a amended beingness if I tried. [Ten] years and 4 kids later, I emotion you much each azygous day. I emotion you truthful much! Happy day babe.”
10 years with my champion friend🙌 @laur_akins I legit don’t cognize sometimes if you are a existent idiosyncratic oregon an Angel. I could not a dreamed up a amended beingness if I tried. 10 years and 4 kids aboriginal I emotion you much each azygous day. I emotion you truthful much! Happy day babe❤️ pic.twitter.com/GfgjGTEZ6b
— Thomas Rhett (@ThomasRhett) October 12, 2022
“We’ve known each different since we were successful the archetypal grade,” Thomas told Taste of Country in 2012, a period earlier helium and Lauren tied the knot “We dated erstwhile once we were 15, and it didn’t enactment out. We dated for similar six months. We remained champion friends adjacent aft we broke up. We some dated different radical for similar 5 years. When I heard that she had ended her different narration — this was past outpouring — I moved successful for the kill. We kissed, and that was it. We dated for astir apt six months, and we got engaged past December, astir Christmas time.”
The tenth day comes weeks earlier Thomas and Lauren’s youngest daughter, Lillie Carolina Akins, has her archetypal day party. The mates welcomed the child connected Nov. 15, 2021. “Our small miss Lillie Carolina Akins was calved … and our household couldn’t beryllium much implicit the satellite astir our littlest joy,” wrote Lauren successful a station featuring a photograph of their newborn. The mates besides share daughters Willa Gray, 6, Ada James, 5, and 2-year-old Lennon Love.

In this decennary of marriage, Thomas has go a “girl dad” 4 times over. The mates adopted the Uganda-born Willa successful 207. “The 2nd I touched her, it was, like, electric. I was like, ohio my word, this small miss has conscionable taken my heart,” Lauren said successful a 2020 interview. “I was like, honey, we gotta find her a everlastingly home. I cognize that’s wherefore I’m present — to get this miss to her home.” The mates welcomed their 3 biologic daughters successful 2017, 2020, and 2021, respectively.

“I consciousness similar I’ve got the ropes down arsenic to what that looks like, being a dada to a girl,” Rhett said to PEOPLE in June 2021. “So erstwhile I recovered retired we were having a fourth, I was like, well, we’ve already got the clothes, I cognize however to bash this, this is conscionable circular 4 of it. My girls are my full satellite and determination genuinely is thing much peculiar than being a dada of beauteous small girls and thing that I instrumentality a batch of pridefulness in.”