7 Years Good Luck

This December marked our 7th anniversary! The time has really flown by and I can't imagine it with anyone else- I'm a lucky girl to have snagged such a sweet and supportive husband, and loving father to our kids. He works so hard to provide for us the things we need and want- I don't express appreciation to him enough! Once I wrote him a list of all of the things I like about him- I hope he will take it out and read it again, they're all still true.

Here is a vintage Polaroid photo circa the morning of Dec 6th 2003- taken by the creepy bed and breakfast lady:

...maybe I should back up a little- don't think I've ever told our story here. I'll make it kind of brief. I met Tyler through a group of Bountiful friends- at the time he was rooming with "my missionary's" brother, Matt. A few of them were going to Vegas- at first I said I didn't want to go ( I was dating a couple other people at the time). Then at the last minute I decided to go. On the trip there were "the girls" (Emily, Laura & Me)

And "the boys" Tyler, Josh, & Matt.

It was all fun and games- Tyler and I pretended we accidentally had a real margarita and got married. I think the other kids really believed the drunk part :) Tyler said he knew this trip he wanted to marry me.

I took a little longer to figure it out, and poor Tyler got dumped a couple times (our friends didn't even believe we were really engaged when we finally were!) We dated for 6 weeks, only about 2 of which were exclusive before he proposed, but 6 months later this was the end result:

When you know, you know :) Love you, Ty!