Seven years!

As I've looked over the blog, I see that the titles involve times, months, or special dates in our lives which is precisely the reason I began writing here for you. I wanted you to be able to read bits and pieces of this one day and remember important things in your life and in my and daddy's life. Today, daddy and I celebrate 7 years of marriage to each other! Here is a little history of mommy and daddy.

We started dating at the end of 1999 when dad was at ECU and I was at Meredith. I would go visit on weekends or he would come to Raleigh, pick me up, and we'd drive home. After he graduated and moved home, I transfered to UNCG and began commuting there each day while I lived at home. I was happy with my choice as I loved being near dad and still enjoyed college life. We dated for nearly 4 years before we were married on May 29,2004. We were married at my church, First Presbyterian, surrounded by about 200 family members and friends. It was a beautiful ceremony and I remember fondly walking down the aisle and seeing how handsome daddy looked in his tux. After the ceremony, we danced the night away at our reception and had so much fun with friends. That night, we drove to Charlotte, spent the night, and caught an early flight out for a cruise in the southern carribbean. It was wonderfully fun and exciting! I am so lucky to say that married my best friend!

 

Photography by Rodney Slate at Autumn Song Photography

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Daddy and I love each other very much and have made a happy life together- especially now that you are here.