8 Years Ago....

Do you know what you were doing 8 years ago, yesterday, May 19th, 2000?

Funny thing, but I DO!

Matt I celebrated 8 years of marriage yesterday!

It seems like only yesterday that we were trendy young hipsters with not too many cares in the world and now, we're hard-working parents and have a few more gray hairs (me, not Matt, unfortunately!).

Here's a fun picture of Matt and his brothers. Matt was #7 of 9 to get married, so by the time we were married, THEY were telling the photographer the best poses!

Our first apartment! Ours is the BASEMENT portion of this big house. It was SMALL but we loved it!

One of first big trips was to Hawaii for a Franklin Covey trip while Matt worked there. This picture was taken while we were biking down a volcano...you should try it sometime!

I found this picture today and seriously couldn't remember Matt ever having had a goatee, but here is the proof! This was taken when we'd been married a year and four months.

Matt and I moved to Chicago in November of 2001. This is a picture of our first Christmas in Chicago!

I just thought I'd throw this in cause it's a fun picture of us and our friends on our 2nd New Years Eve being married.

Oh WHOOPS, this isn't Matt, how did this picture get in there???

And this was us on our Anniversary, yesterday!

Quinton and I met Matt downtown and we made it a fun date for the three of us at the Chicago Navy Pier. We walked, ate and enjoyed the Ferris wheel for the first time, ever! Quinton loved the view from the top!

We couldn't have asked for a better eight years, especially since we've spent the last 2 and a half with Quinton, the other love of our lives!

It was a little chilly and cloudy but a fun night playing around and enjoying one another's company...something I think we can take for granted.

Quinton loves a good train ride and what better way to celebrate our anniversary!

This picture was from the other day and it just makes me laugh!

To all our friends and family, thanks for sharing our lives with us!