Merry Christmas and Happy Anniversary!

I’m writing this early because we’re going to be traveling for a while and I don’t know if I’ll have access or time to write…

First of all, I hope that you all have a very merry Christmas! We’re going to be celebrating with Tyson’s family in Kansas and then we’re heading to Nebraska to help my parents pack up their house and move to Oklahoma!! I know it will be very tough to drive away from their house once everything is packed. I lived in that house my whole life until I went to college. A million childhood memories happened there. I could bore you with a bunch of stories but I would probably start crying. It’s bittersweet. I’m glad we get to go back one last time.

Saturday, the 27th is our 5th anniversary! 5 years already?!? Happy anniversary, hun…it’s crazy to think it’s been that long since we stood at the front of the church and promised forever to whatever was ahead. We were young but we were in love, best friends and we knew we could make it through anything together. Since then we’ve lived in 3 states (Arkansas, Colorado & Oklahoma), 3 apartments, 1 house, we’ve had 1 cat (oh, Molly…what a crazy cat!), 1 dog (Walter…a gentleman and so sweet) and brought one beautiful baby girl into the world. We’ve graduated from college, had multiple jobs, have been a part of some great churches and we’ve always had amazing friends and very supportive families. We’ve laughed and cried and everything in between. Thank you, God, for these first 5 years of marriage together. Tyson, I look forward to the rest of our lives together and whatever they may bring. Thank you for being my best friend and a wonderful dad to Audrey. I love you!

Here’s a few pictures from our wedding. (side note: if I could change one thing about our wedding it would be the photographs. Photojournalism was becoming very popular and I really liked the candid shots instead of having everything posed. Well, since we were getting married 2 days after Christmas, almost all of the photographers that we were interested in were taking their vacations then, so we had to settle for whoever was working the holiday weekend…but, oh, well, right? We got some good pictures, but it just wasn‘t what I had in mind.) and the quality does not look very good because they're scanned in. anyway...here's us:

Merry Christmas, everyone! May Jesus’ birth be the reason you’re celebrating this season! and Happy New Year, too!