8 Years
Every year around about this time I pull out our wedding album and look for a good picture. Our wedding happened just before the entry of the digital camera into wedding photography, so this process involves pulling out our proofs, flipping through pages and travelling back in time. But the goal is to find a picture from 1998 that reflects back some light from today. Most of the time I am drawn to our artsier pictures. Pictures where we have been carefully posed or are very conscious of the fact that we are being photographed for posterity. Serious pictures.
But this year I was drawn to something different. This year, almost without looking I knew which picture I wanted. We've had so much seriousness this year and I think we're both a little worn out by that. The last picture in our album is the one you see above. We're not serious, we're not posed, we're mostly revelling in the fact that we've survived all the planning, finished all the serious business and we've come through the day, very happy to be married. How could a girl not smile?
Eight years later, I am still completely happy to be married and John still makes me smile all the time. Every thing from little grins to laughing so hard that my stomach muscles hurt and my eyes tear up. He has such a knack for helping me lighten up and put the difficult things aside for a bit. While there is much seriousness to going through life and to being married, for us there's been a great deal of happiness and laughter, too. I wouldn't trade that for anything.
Happy Anniversary, Love. I want to laugh with you forever and for always.
All the best for the future years together! I hope you'll get many, many more of them.
What a great picture -- Happy Anniversary!!!
Happy anniversary! Thank you for sharing a memory with us by posting this happy photo and the reason you chose it.
Happy Anniversary John & Theresa, & many more of them.
A very happy anniversary to you both!
Happy Anniversary! May there be many, many more.
Happy Anniversary! That is a great picture! I can tell you are both having a wonderful time. One of my favorite photos from my wedding is one where I am laughing so hard I was doubling over and my hand is on my stomach! Kirk is leaning back, head in the air. It's like we are a matched set on a see saw! :) But it is so true to our life together. The laughter and mirth never quit. And that is truly the way to a happy and lasting life together.
It's really nice to see pictures of you two together. Many more happy returns.
That is a beautiful picture. It really shows the happiness the two of you were feeling, and still are. Last week was my 9 year wedding anniversary though J and I never celebrate it. We were together so long before we got married that we still count our prewedding anniversary as the real deal. Next month we will have been together for 14 years.
Happy Anniversary to you both.
You guys are just so adorable.
Happy Anniversary. That's such a great picture.
Happy Anniversary. that is such an adorable story! i love things like this. they make me look forward to my own future...and how all this tough planning will be worth it in the end
Happy Anniversary to you and John! It's my anniversary today, too, so I'm celebrating with you. Here's to Love -- and finding that special person to complete your life.
Aww...happy anniversary!!
I'm really happy for you. Eight years is an accomplishment to be proud of. :-)
Happy Anniversary! That's such a nice picture.
That's a wonderful photo and I think it captures the real "you guys". Happy Anniversary to both of you. I hope you get to happy dance today.
What a beautiful photo!
I wish you many more wonderful years together! Hopefully this upcoming year will have less seriousness and lots more happy moments.
Happy Anniversary! I have a feeling this coming year will be filled with lots of smiles and laughter for both of you. Have a great day!
Happy Anniversary, Theresa and John. May you have many, many more happy years together.
the MIRTH of it all - so contagious - charming - lovely - like both of you!
Happy Anniversary, Theresa and John!
Great photo! Happy anniversary. You were married on my (12 today!) youngest son's 4th birthday, so in honor of the coincidence I plan to cast on for his socks using the yarn he picked out 2 summers ago when we were in Newport, RI and "happened upon" (OK, it was after a look at the yellow pages and 2 trips around the block!) a nice little yarn shop. I'm caught up on the family's hats (well I was 'til daughter#2 fell in love with another hat pattern!), but have fallen into the well when it comes to the socks. I've collected all of the yarn needed- does that count?!
Happy Anniversary! That is such a sweet picture of you guys!
Happy, happy anniversary. May there always be unlimited laughing and joy
Wonderful picture! Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary! May you have many more wonderful years ahead :)
Happiness in marriage is nothing to sneeze at, and laughter one of life's great gifts in general.
May you both have much more of it.
Happy anniversary!
Felicitations, Theresa and John. The happiest days still lie ahead. Enjoy them all!
Congratulations on 8 happy years and wishing you many, many more!
Happy Anniversary! May you have many more wonderful years together!
Great expression of the relationship in that picture. Happy anniversary!
Happy Anniversary! That picture reminds me of one from my own wedding, 14 years ago next month.
Happy Anniversary! Heres to your marriage growing with you (and your stash).
Happy anniversary!
I remember leaving you a comment last year, because we got married just a week apart in 1998, so my hubby and I just celebrated our 8 years, too! (August 15th) It's gone by so fast and so slow at the same time.
Anyway, best wishes for another 8 (or 80!).