Eight Years!

Today marks eight years of marriage to my best friend!  I couldn't be more in love.  Ryan and I enjoy remembering anniversaries past . . . 

January 4, 2003 we were married in Norman, Oklahoma in the same church my parents and grandparents were married in.  We left the next day to honeymoon in Vancouver, Canada!

2004 - we were living in Oklahoma, but headed back to the Northwest and spent our first anniversary in Portland

2005 - we celebrated our second year of marriage around the party and planning of my sister's marriage to one of our favorite guys!

2006 - we had been living in China and were unexpectedly in Hong Kong for medical reasons on our third anniversary, so we kept the party going when we traveled to Thailand later that month.

2007 - still living in China, we stayed the night in the new Ramada hotel in our city.  They gave us the "honeymoon discount"!

2008 - Rooke's due date was on our anniversary, so we kept things low key and enjoyed dinner and dessert in Seattle.

2009 - we traveled to London to spend Christmas with my family and got to leave Rooke with my parents to celebrate our anniversary with an overnight trip to Oxford!

2010 - we left Rooke with Grammy Deb who was visiting for Gretchen's birth and took our ten-day-old daughter to Snoqualmie Falls for a quiet and relaxing breakfast.

2011 - thanks to grandparents, we already spent an afternoon and evening together enjoying some of our favorite kid-free activities and reflecting on how wonderful the past eight years have been together.   

Happy Anniversary, Ryan.  I love you.