four years

the length of a presidency term...

the time between olympics...

february 29th...

total solar eclipse...

...all things that occur every four years. and now philip have been through all those things together, married. that's right. four year anniversary today, peeps - august 30th. it's hard to believe that four years ago we were getting married on this day. yes. four isn't that much time in the scope of eternity, but a lot has happened in those four years. and i am so grateful for it.

i'm so grateful that i met Nikki Dooley in 4th grade and that friendship grew in high school so much that i was a bridesmaid in her wedding in november of 2006 and met philip there.

then that i was placed to do Young Life in Virginia Beach and very soon after fell in love with philip.

and 5ish crazy months later he asked me to marry him. one of the craziest things i've ever done. besides kayaking to girl scout island...but that's another story for another time.

and seven crazy months later we got married. sorry, mom. i know that was quick.

and now we're here. four years later. 

thanks for being my boo, philip. i love you and could not have asked for a better teammate in life. thank for who you are and how you call who i really am out of me.

philip's birthday

I had a previous blog that I have canceled so I wanted to re-post one of my favorite memories of my wonderful husband in honor of his birthday today....{it was from July this summer}

So here I am...in the lovely state of New York. My life is so strange sometimes. My husband and I work for Young Life. And we get the privilege of working at the beautiful camps Young Life owns during the summer. Some would not consider this a privilege, but we do. We have to uproot and move our lives for a month, live in a house with other families, share meals together... And I love it...well usually at least.

Philip loves it, too. I think he feels more free to be himself here. Perhaps too free. While out to dinner last night, with some of our friends, we noticed it was karaoke night at a small local American bar on the river. Philip loves karaoke, but I have never seen him do anything like this before...he requested the song, "Pour some sugar on me" and as he approaches the mic he just goes ahead and takes off his shirt. What?

There were about 40 people in the bar, maybe more. And he belted out the song...a few of the waitresses brought some handfuls of sugar and threw it on him. A local woman came up to him afterward and said,

"That was a treat. I haven't seen that much skin in quite some time."

I haven't laughed that hard in awhile.

happy birthday philip! 

i love you. 

stephanie + andrew engaged!

My friend Amie & I took pictures of our friends, Andrew & Stephanie, to celebrate their engagement a month or so ago. I am no engagement photographer or any kind of professional photographer for that matter, but I really enjoy taking pictures of people & things I love. This was pre-getting my new lens from Philip, but I am pleased with some of them...what do you think?