This Day in 1996

Do you know what you were doing?  I was getting married.  I can't believe how quickly 15 years have gone by...gulp...it makes me feel a little old.  Of course, I was still essentially a teenager when I got married.  I didn't turn 20 until a month later. :)  I'm so thankful for Brandon and for all the amazing memories and adventures we've shared over the last years.  To celebrate, enjoy a look back in time at the two of us...

1994 - High School Graduation

1996 - the spring before we got married.

1997 - in St. Louis

1998 - before graduating from college

1999 - Heading home after visiting Brandon's brother in Des Moines - he gifted us with some of his garden tomatoes...that's what's in the bucket I'm carrying.  Maybe even the whole reason for the picture?  I don't know. :)

Christmas 2001 - Ginger was just a puppy...look how little she is!

2003 - At Graceland II in Holly Springs, MS.  If you ever go through Holly Springs, you MUST stop in & see this place.  It is a visit you'll never forget.  If you go 3 times, you become a lifetime member!  We still haven't made it back that way for visit #2, but we've promised that one day, we will!

2004 - At a friend's wedding.  I think the old couple behind us was jealous of our young love.

Easter 2005 - only 5 short days before Luke was born 8 weeks early!  And I thought I just had indigestion that day...little did I know what was to come.

2006 Arizona trip - Painted Desert & Petrified Forest - beautiful.  Go if you're in the area!

2007 Arizona trip - the lady with us is Rusty.  She and her husband own(?) a Pioneer ranch and restaurant we love to visit.  See picture below.

2008 Arizona trip - Rusty was so kind to help us recreate the previous year's photo.  We brought her a copy of the one from 2007.  I'm sure she still treasures it.

2009 - Utah ski trip.  Brandon's first experience skiing...lots of memories there!

2010 - Summer fun at home.

2011 - I think we're so much better looking now that we're older.

I discovered that 2000 & 2002 must have been really bad picture years - we had NONE that I could find of us together.  I also realized that once we got a digital camera in 2005, I started taking A LOT more pictures.  The first 15 have been amazing.  I can't wait to see what's in store for us in the next 15!