from minute one

this is the first picture of us. it was taken just a couple of months after we met and a week after we said 'i love you' for the first time...

july 18, 2003















this is the only picture of us from the night we got engaged...notice how relieved/exhausted my husb-to-be is after it's all over with :)

september 4, 2005







this is the day we became husband and wife. i knew this day would come from the moment that we met. i just didn't know how perfect it would be...

august 6, 2006



















this picture was taken earlier today in our beautiful backyard. this weekend marked 6 years since the fateful night that we met. to celebrate, we have been spending the weekend cleaning out closets, watching basketball, and saying things like, "six years ago i was thinking about you right now!" so much has changed (look at that first picture of us!!, ben graduated college, we've lived in 3 different cities, adopted our boys, i got my masters, we bought a house) but plenty has stayed the same...i'm still as crazy about this guy as the night i met him. i still look at him in disbelief...this really happened...we're really together...this is the life of which i had only dreamed. and it is real. and it is so beautiful...

may 24, 2009

here is to six more years, my love. and six years after that...and six years after that...and...