Anniversary

I had fun looking through some old pictures this month, so I'm going to throw it back a bit in honor of our 8th (Say what?!) Anniversary on the 11th. Here we are at our High School Graduation. Man, we had NO idea what was in store when this pic was taken. If we had, we might have both run in opposite directions. 

 I'm pretty sure the date was actually 06/06/2006 - 12 years this year?!

This post has sat in my draft box all month, because I really don't know how to put into words how I feel....I never liked dating in high school. I remember it always being super awkward, and would literally cry and throw a fit (ask my mom) when a boy would call the house asking me out, because I hated it and felt obligated to say yes every time. (And I did. I never said no to a date, no matter how badly I didn't want to go) 

 I hated when they walked me to the door, the most awkward part of the whole night...and would literally open the screen door and stand behind it while we said goodbye just in case one of them tried something. I remember sticking cash in my back pocket just in case for some reason my date forgot his wallet - totally happened before. It makes an awkward thing even MORE embarrassing and awkward. (How many times do you think I can use the word awkward in this post?) As AWKWARD as my whole dating experience was, I never ever felt that way with Jeff. Our friendship just evolved into something more, and I was always 100% comfortable. I was almost weirded out by how easy it was. I'm grateful we were able to be friends first, and grateful for how that friendship has benefited the relationship we have now. There is nothing I find funnier than the way Jeff reacts when I do or say something that he thinks is lame or stupid. We spent a good hour on our anniversary laughing hysterically (ok, I was laughing hysterically...but he was laughing pretty hard too) at these photos...

Doesn't he make a good looking woman? hahah. When we tell most people how we started dating, we get asked a lot how we got out of the friend zone. It was super weird for me. (Weird - but never uncomfortable or awkward) I don't know about Jeff, but I do remember the first time we held hands I was like, whoa, man - what the heck are you doing? 

Fast forward almost 4 years....Can't believe how much has changed in these past 8 years. We were definitely thinner...I was tanner, and Jeff had more hair :-D Some of the pictures are pictures of pictures (You get what I'm throwin down??) so they aren't the best quality.

The one on the bottom left will always be my favorite picture....he has always kept me laughing, even though we all know I'm actually the funny one ;) I smiled a lot that day.

Some of these I found on my friends blog. She was so awesome and took our bridals/engagements/wedding photos to build her photography portfolio. A few people asked if the photography company was named after me...Nope...random coincidence. MeTree was her actual photography name.

They attempted to get some "model" shots in...I won't post the majority here because I was a painfully awkward model, and they didn't have a lot to work with. I remember one of them saying: you want to pretend like you could shoot fire out of your eyes. What the heck? The harder I tried to make fire come out of my eyes, the more...well, confused and special I looked. Lets hear it for all the models out there...their job is definitely harder than it looks! Ha!

  No one knows....

Poor cardboard Brady had to stay in the car

Can't wait to see what 8 more years brings!