flashing back friday.

i'm playing along in flashback friday as a tribute to me and my hubby. it is our ten year anniversary together 'as a couple'. and our five and a half year wedding anniversary if you want to be real technical! i hope you enjoy a trip through memory lane!

my favorite picture from our first date of prom. 99 (his mom did a much nicer job than i do picking the weeds...as this is in front of our house now)

our first official 'as a couple' picture. 99 (and my favorite pic of us)

junior prom. 00
me on homecoming court, 01 he still has that sweatshirt, except i wear it now...01 senior prom. 01--yes i wore the same dress twice. that thing was expensive!

i graduated! 01 awwww. 01 my uncles wedding 02 (dang i was skinny!)
engagement picture. isn't he the cutest in glasses!?!
another engagement pic from our wedding. from the grand march. 03
christmas 03 (our first christmas married-and a few days after finding out about our first little angel baby) our one year anniversary trip to door county 04
christmas 04-and me all big as a house with amelya in my belly. i had two months to go yet!
family of three 05

professional family pic and breigh's in my belly!! 05

family of four 06
family of five 07

zoo 08

fourth of july 08 (i love having a daughter who can take pictures!!)

too cute. 08 (my belly button is sticking out!!)

our first professional picture since our engagement pics. 08
i just loved this one. 08 our trip to minnesota october 08
first pic as a family of six 08
my sister's wedding 08

christmas as a family of six 08

most recent. last weekend.

ohhh wasn't that fun!? i had fun. and i could've scanned way lots more pictures. so be thankful i didn't. i've noticed two things. 1. i was a lot skinner than i used to feel. i wish i would've thought that at the time. oh well. 2. shaun has a lot of the same clothes and still wears them, we need to go shopping. :0)

shaun had a super cute handmade card for me when i woke up this morning. i love handmade cards! i also love that he remembered today without being reminded. :0) either way i love that man. he is the bestest guy ever. and i know you all have the bestest guys ever too. isn't that great to think we have the bestest guy? i am so extremely blessed to be called not only his wife but his best friend. and he is mine. allllll mine. and more importantly he is an awesome man of god. he leads our family with godly wisdom and i am so grateful for that.

i am shaun's one and only ever in his life girlfriend. isn't that cool? i think it is. he's the blessed one to get it 'right' on the first time!! he's the first boy i ever 'went out with' before we started 'dating'. we went on three dates before he officially 'asked me out'. i loved that. he held my hand first, and so cute. first he grabbed my pinky with his...and gradually was holding me hand. he says i kissed him first. i say he was staring at me and we both did it at the same time. lol. who really cares. of course he asked me to marry him. nothing romantic though. but that's okay. because that's us. we're not super romantic and it's all good. i don't need 'things' to show me that shaun loves me. i'm the secret glances across the room type of girl. :0) i love it when i catch shaun staring at me, but that means i was staring at him first! :0)

shaun is the best person to ever happen to me. jesus is the best thing to have ever happened to me. put them together and it's pretty much perfection. :0) to me.

this week has been the hardest week of my life. (read posts below to find out the reasons why if you do not know) and the hardest week for the both of us as a couple. we've had loads of ups and downs. and we've clung to each other and to jesus together. without doing that this road of up and downs would be impossible.

i love getting notes from shaun because he pours his heart into them. and he says things to me that he may not say aloud to me. i love that HE is glad that i said yes twice in my life. and that he's happy we are together. and that we have a lot more wrinkles to get to. that was one thing we've always said to each other, we get to wrinkle together. i for one, cannot think of a better person to wrinkle with besides my best friend, my husband, my lover, my soul mate. happy ten years shaun. i can't wait to spend forever with you...

last night i was also so blessed to get out of the house for a bit. i went to a wildtree party at a blogging buddy's house! it was our first time meeting in real life! check out her blog for the picture proof! it was really nice for me to get out by myself and just reflect on this week. and how awesome of a drive to and from it was. god totally hand picked each song on the radio for my heart. my favorite one, which is also my ringtone on my phone, was the song my nicole c mullen when you call on jesus, all things are possible...that is my life this week. when I call on HIM ALL things are possible.

it IS possible to go through a miscarriage and survive WITH jesus. it IS possible to be so stinkin sad and survive WITH jesus. it IS possible to have the hope that things are going to be okay WITH jesus. it IS possible WITH jesus. ALL things. and i'm so thankful for that. so stinkin thankful.

blogger has been a real booger to me lately, and shutting down when i try to load up blogs. so i am sorry if i haven't commented on your blog in a bit. i try to load and it shuts down. and i get irritated so i quit. so hopefully it fixes soon and today i'll get a chance to get a bit caught up on all your all's blogs. hopefully. but it is really nice outside, so amelya and i may have to hang out outside during nap time...and since i do not have a lap top i may not get to blogs. so we'll see. i promise to get back into the swing of things soon.

and i tried to post a vlog yesterday. more irritation. so lord willing i'll try for next week. :0) it wasn't too exciting anyways.

okay so that's that. i think i've covered it all. i love you guys. and thanks for the addresses. i will write those out today while sitting outside! :0)