Reminiscing...

January 1994 is when I began falling in love with Luke. I have it written on my calender each and every year on January 12th so I will always remember.

So today I actually pulled out my journal from all those years ago and had fun looking back and remembering those early days. Luke and I were on the same YoungLife team at A&M and of course started out as just friends....

Don't the scanned-in pictures just crack you up? Ahhh the days before digital photography. This is one of our first dates. I knew right away that Luke was very different than any guy I had dated before. There was something special about him...he definately had the prince charming- thing going on and swept me off my feet. I knew from the beginning that he was someone that I could spend the rest of my life with.

April of 1994 when I first told him that I loved him....

This is August of 94 after we'd been dating a few months. We both worked that summer for YoungLife's Trail West Family Camp. On some of our off-time, we hiked our first "14-er"... Mount Princeton. We signed our names in the time capsule at the peak and sang "We exalt Thee" at the top of our lungs...

A year later... July of 95 when Luke professed his love by sending my engagement ring down a kite string. Such a fun day!


March of 96...wedding bells were ringing. That day was like a fairytale. And that was one great kiss!


On our honeymoon cruising somewhere out in the Carribbean...

Only been married a week... and even more in love. Home from the cruise and on our way back to G-town.

Luke carved this in an aspen tree the summer of 94 when we were working in Colorado. We went back for our one-year wedding anniversary and searched out in the snow for this tree. If this was taken after only a year, imagine what it looks like now! I would love to go back and see it again. Maybe we'll have to add that to the agenda when we head up for Landon and Whitney's wedding! Thanks for letting me reminisce about the flood of memories I have this time of year. I am so thankful for Luke. And so much more in love with him today than ever before. He is an amazing husband, friend, dad, son, and doctor. And he still makes me laugh...crack up actually...pretty much everyday. :)