5 really good things on a wednesday...

~ getting an email from one of my
favorite blog-friends
asking me if i would like to collaborate
with her on this...i am so excited...
{she is super talented...}

~ spending the weekend in a beautiful hotel in another city,
just S. and me...a surprise for our tenth anniversary...

~a phone call asking if i would like a chance to have a showing
of my photos...it is called 30 days of fame and is for new
photographers/artists...i am so excited/intimidated!
mine is booked for april...


~getting stopped in the mall and asked if i ever do weddings...
and would i do theirs?
eek.
again, excitement tinged with fear.

~losing 1.7 pounds at last week's weigh in...tonight is
my second one and i am hoping this weekend away
is not my downfall...heehee

friday-i'm-in-love...the anniversary version





today
i am in love
with this guy...

who gets me...
really and truly gets me.
more than i get myself sometimes.

we've been married ten years today
and there were people
who thought we would never last
having built our beginning on
a very dramatic foundation.

but we have lasted
and grown stronger...
i feel like anything i want to say
would be cliched and lame and not
come across as i want it to.

but what i can say
is
i am in love with him
as surely and strongly as i was
the night he pushed me against the wall
and kissed me hard
and fast
at the red light...

i love that on the outside
he is the big guy, the tough guy,
the full of jokes and booming voice,
but inside,
for me...
he is soft and sweet
understanding and thoughtful...

i'm so looking forward to another ten years...
and more.

whirlwinds...



i have been quiet this week...
i have been blindsided by the busy-ness
that is "back to school"
checking out cubs for 8,
attending parent info nights at 2 different schools,
packing lunches and checking schedules.

i realize i didn't even post my usual
"first day of school" photos
but here they are...
and when i went back and looked at
last year's,
i could have cried for the subtle differences
a year can make.