Eight is GR8

Eight years ago, Adam and I were married in the Salt Lake City LDS temple (seen behind us in the above picture). In fact, as I type this, it was almost exactly eight years ago!

Eight years...
2, 290 days...
70, 080 hours of wedded bliss.

Well, okay, not every hour has been bliss...but you know what I mean...

A couple weeks ago, we pulled out our wedding pictures and went through every one. It had been years since we'd looked at them. I even realized that Nate had never seen them! (We have a few in a frame in our home, so he has seen some of the photos from that day.)
He really enjoyed seeing pictures of his uncles, who look a lot different now.

But Adam and I? We look exactly the same. Haven't changed a bit.

(yeah, right!)

As I was looking through these, I could feel every emotion of that day. A couple of times, I found myself feeling the breathlessness that I always felt around my new husband. He was so dang good-looking, and we were so full of promise that day. In my heart that day, there was every feeling you could imagine...elation, nervousness, excitement, pure love...and so many more. But you get the idea.

I look at these pictures and laugh at how naive we were about what was to come. Sometimes I feel like telling that young, skinny girl that she doesn't have the chops to handle what's coming in her life. Real life is about to hit, you silly girl! There will be babies that cry, and bills that can't be paid, and stress and cross-country moves, and big decisions and disappointment...

...and greater joy than she's ever known before.

But for these moments, there was no thought of real life, no thought of much, but how happy I was that my life was just eternally intertwined with his life. Beautifully intertwined.

Eight years later (and apparently millions of calories later, too) life is beautiful.


And if we make it to our tenth anniversary, maybe we'll celebrate big-time...neither one of us has been to Hawaii. :)

Photo by my sister Ali :)
{I put up this picture because I totally love it. It is one of our first pictures after we were married, I wish I could show you a better version of it. I also love that it features our videographer, Matt Baker, and our photographer, Kelly Anne Sansom}



{The images shown in this post were taken by Kelly Anne of Gallery Photography and for your info, our wedding video was done by Happily Ever After video. They are located in Utah and are two of the best in the business! And because it's important to note, I have purchased the negatives from the wedding day, so this is not a copyright infringement...copyright infringement is not nice!!}