One year!

A year ago today (June 11th) I was still wondering if I was really going to get to marry Tyler the next day. After meeting Tyler seven years earlier, I never thought it would actually happen. I knew for so long that I would marry Tyler eventually, but when that time came it still seemed too good to be true.

Here I am a year later about to celebrate my first year of marriage with Tyler. It's hard to believe that my life has changed so much in a year but it really has. I was such a different person a year ago and I am so much better off having spent a year living with and spending life with Tyler. Marriage is not something that either of us took lightly and I think that helped make it easier as we prepared to enter a covenant relationship.

So here's a look at our first year of marriage. I don't take a lot of pictures like I used to but I am sure I have some that will recap a lot of what we did!

We began our marriage by spending several days in Cancun. Best decision ever!

We went to a Springfield Cardinals game with our friends John Mark and Lesley!

We got to go to an OSU game and we both got new OSU shirts... my wardrobe is changing a lot (with the addition of more orange!)

Tyler got to meet my Khmer sister, Theara. This was quite a big deal to me as she represents much of the good in Cambodia.

We got to go to TWO OSU football games this year! It was my first Bedlam experience... and boy was it a crazy one.

We spent lots of time with my nieces!

We celebrated our first Christmas together and got to spend this Christmas Eve with my family.

We too our first mini-vaca to Branson for a couple of nights to do some shopping (at wonderful outlets!) and regroup before I started my last semester of college.

We experienced the biggest blizzard either of us have ever seen... 18 inches of snow and 3 days stuck in the apartment with no where to go! It was a blast!

We went on many dates to celebrate various things, and sometimes not celebrating anything in particular at all.

We got to celebrate my parents 30th anniversary by hanging out with my family and taking family pictures for the first time in a few years.

We celebrated the resurrection of our Savior... and we took our first porch pic!

We celebrated my graduation from college.

Unfortunately the next day we also experienced our town being hit with one of the most devastating tornados of all time. I don't have pictures to share because anyone who can read this blog has already seen them all. It is a part of our first year of marriage and hopefully the only year we have to face such devastation in a place we love so much.

This year has been the best. I can't thank Tyler enough for simply loving and caring for me as he leads us  in life. It is a truly great experience to be married and to be married to someone who loves God and me so much that his whole life reflects that. Thanks Tyler, I love you!