Baby's Gender Reveal Video!

Year 3 in 100 Pictures

Our Wedding Video

This September marks 3 years of love for me & my husband Dan.  In some ways it feels longer & in some ways it seems like just yesterday.  I thought I'd share our little wedding video for you today.  No, I didn't splurge on a fancy videographer or even photographer for our day, but I think the sweet little shaky blurry film captured by family turned into the perfect memory for us.  Oh, & keep an eye out for my favorite part at the beginning, where God sends a butterfly our way! {We saw quite a few that day actually.}

❤

Happy anniversary, Dan!  You are my love forever!

Year 2 in 100 Pictures

Once Upon an Autumn Day...

 

I'd been dreaming of taking wedding pictures on this lovely piece of railroad track for over a year now.  Last Saturday, we got our wedding things back on & finally made it happen!  Click here for more of the story on the misadventure {& adventure} of that lovely autumn day!

3 Sentence Love Story

Recently I came across the idea of the 3 sentence love story, & I thought today would be the perfect day to share ours {just 'cause}...

It started with prayer + fingers on the keyboards of our computers - even though I had kinda told myself fiercely I would not do the online dating route.  

"Novel e-mails" began between us, then phone calls, then visits to each others cities, & all the hard + beautiful stuff of long distance like growing into love.  

You asked for me forever beside the tree where you carved our names, & we both promised a covenant of a lifetime outside on a sunny beauty of a day in September, & today we are living it out with all the messy truths + hardships + amazing-ness that comes with reality in this world where we choose to lean hard on our savior Jesus.

That's our story in tiny form... & the beauty is it's still unfolding into more.

Year 1 in 100 Pictures

Our Love Story // "Reader, I Married Him"

The clouds that brought some shade that bright September afternoon were as fluffy & magic-like as any I've ever seen.

It was the day I was to say, "I do," & I was terrified.  To all the watching guests, my walk down the white path was solo, but this daughter who lost her beloved earthly dad 16 years ago, knew she had a perfect Father God by her side, holding her shaking hands that clutched her bouquet tight.

We wed out in beautiful creation, with those clouds overhead & Georgia pines in the distance, in the big open field behind our new church in my new city.  Butterflies waltzed past us at one point in the ceremony, like the ones my mom had made for me & lovingly stitched onto my veil, & it was my favorite wedding gift that day from my first & truest love, & reminded me to breathe - there is reason for joy in Him always.  He brings us caterpillars & hope & butterflies & joy.

I made a covenant promise to love the man who had tears in his eyes as I walked down to him, the one I couldn't believe I had found after so many prayers & journal letters written where I left a blank for the name to go when he was just a hope & a prayer & a dream.

We sealed our promises with a kiss & marched down the aisle to this tune & we were now husband & wife & my life forever changed.  And change, just like with caterpillars, I learned, can be beautiful & good, & I thank God each day for this change in so many ways - name, residence, city, state, church, family, responsibility, heart - & for the husband who helps me see the beauty in this life & in this adventure & in myself, just like the butterflies.