Today, April 19, is our seventh wedding anniversary. Since we've got some pretty all-consuming stuff going on this week, we agreed a while back that we wouldn't be doing anything elaborate to celebrate. We did seize the opportunity to go out on a nice date a few weeks ago and on an overnight trip to Santa Fe in February, back in the distantly-remembered days when I could still get in and out of a car without major physical contortion. Still, I wanted to observe the day here on the blog, so I've been thinking about how best to do that. At first I thought I could finally get around to scanning some of our wedding photos and posting them, but our scanner is way up in the top of our guest room closet right now and this does not seem like a good time to break out any stepladders. Also, our wedding photos are great, but they don't tell you a whole lot about us aside from the fact that we used to be a lot skinnier than we are now. So I gave up on that idea. Then I remembered that recently, a friend passed along a CD of some pictures he took of us during a birthday party for a friend of Kate's back in August. These photos actually do justice to what our relationship is really like if you hang out with us on a regular basis. We don't stand around in formal clothing smiling with our relatives, like we are in our wedding photos. There is, however, a good bit of this:
(All photos courtesy of Bob Podgurski the Great.)
Oh, look honey, we took a nice photo together. Awww.
Five seconds later, Dan has a child's hula skirt on his head. (The birthday party was a luau.) Commence wifely eye-rolling.
Oh, look, we took another decent photo! Awesome! We should go get Kate and maybe one of these could be our Christmas picture!
Or not. (And no, I have no idea what was going on in this photo.) Well, now I remember why we never send Christmas cards.
Whatever it was, it did make me laugh, which is one thing I can say for us. We have fun.
And we still love each other very much. So happy anniversary, Dan! You are a wonderful husband, and I am glad I am your wife even if we don't take very many good photos together.
Comments (10)
Happy Anniversary!!!
Posted by Kelly | April 19, 2010 9:27 AM
Posted on April 19, 2010 09:27
Happy Anniversary or like the locals in Namibia say... Gelukkige huweliksherdenking!
Posted by Milla | April 19, 2010 10:37 AM
Posted on April 19, 2010 10:37
Happy Anniversary!!!!
Thats the kind of marriage I want!! Laughing all the way through the years!
Posted by Charity | April 19, 2010 6:40 PM
Posted on April 19, 2010 18:40
Happy Anniversary. Love the picture just under the one of Dan with the Hula skirt on his head. You both look awesome. Its one of my favorites.
Love Mom
Posted by Lorrae Wachdorf | April 19, 2010 10:30 PM
Posted on April 19, 2010 22:30
Happy Anniversary! The pictures look so good of you both. And Haley, you look wonderful in the previous post! You make a beautiful, very pregnant lady!
Good luck on delivery. All of you will be in my prayers!
I Love You,
Posted by Aunt Emily | April 20, 2010 6:04 PM
Posted on April 20, 2010 18:04
You guys are my marriage heros! Congrats! :D
Posted by Kate :) | April 21, 2010 12:42 PM
Posted on April 21, 2010 12:42
Happy anniversary, friends!
Posted by RT | April 21, 2010 1:00 PM
Posted on April 21, 2010 13:00
Congratulations on 7 years! May God grant you many, many more!
You've reached that milestone which (sadly in our culture) evokes more & more people to exclaim, "Wow! SEVEN years! That's a LONG time!"
May your light shine brighter & brighter with each passing year!
May Kate, Isaac (and all the rest) grow up & call you blessed!
May the world wonder why the heck you guys "still love each other very much" & look to the One who loved you first!
I'm so very grateful that you guys consider that the photos (for which I merely clicked the shutter--two very beautiful people in object-space are what actually made these such fun shots!) "actually do justice to what our relationship is really like".
I can't believe that (not 1, not 2 but...) SIX of my shots made it to the Ms'ing MS gallery.
Now....if only I could get my photos to look as good as a Daniel Miegs shot! :)
Posted by boq pod | April 21, 2010 11:06 PM
Posted on April 21, 2010 23:06
PS - OH! I almost forgot...And Gelukkige huweliksherdenking! to you both, too!!
Posted by boq pod | April 21, 2010 11:09 PM
Posted on April 21, 2010 23:09
Muhahaha!! Love the photo with the hula skirt. Those photos are very real which is better than being perfectly manicured. Hope you are doing well Haley!
Posted by neeta | May 3, 2010 7:02 PM
Posted on May 3, 2010 19:02