We were married in the Portland Temple on August 2, 2001
A glimpse of our 10 years in photos (and some commentary).
(funny: pictures of our wedding and engagement pictures were NOT digital so I got to scan them in.....)
2 college graduates, 3 new jobs (2 bouts of unemployment), 3 moves, 4 kids and we are DEBT free except for the house. :)
Engagement photos: Jeff's cousin Marisa took our pictures - she was just getting started and now has a very successful photography business - Moondoggie Photography I'd like to think we helped her get started. :)
This is the photo we sent out with our invitations
Wedding day: Portland Temple, Lake Oswego, OR
This photo is the best! That little baby we're holding is Calla - now 10 yrs old. 3 nieces and 1 nephew (has 1 and one on the way) are married, Webbs have 3 kids, Shelby has 4. Steven/Rozann have 7!! Sister-in-law to the right with the baby had one more after him. The little girl in the front who looks like my Abbey, is her daughter and taller than me. And Grandpa Risenmay, directly behind me in the back, has passed away. Grandpa Reynolds performed the ceremony - they went to the church for the luncheon. Jeff's aunt/uncle put it together for us.
My new friends: Webbs and Shelby
me graduating 2002:
don't have any that are scanned, but I graduated. I have the paper to prove it. :)
BS: BioStatistics
1st baby (Lea) 2003: We went to Richland for Christmas and kept driving to Portland to visit G&G Reynolds.
Jeff Graduation from BYU: 2004
Phoenix: 2004
Rustin/Deanna, Steven/Rozann, my parents, us, Kristin/Jonathan (my mom is holding Lea)
New house: 2005
Horrible sprinkler system Jeff decided to install himself......he's a good man. :)
+1 to the family: 2006
2007: Risenmay family reunion in Rocky Point, Mexico
+1: 2008
My sister-in-law Rozann took the above 3 pictures (skip the one of Mexico, she wasn't there). Love them!
2009: Sorensen Family reunion
+1: 2010: 3 Generations of Risenmays Jeff, Ammon, Ron (Jeff's dad)
Today: 2011
picture by my beautiful friend Bernadette Redmond of Snappy Images
There have been lots to do:
weddings
funerals
babies born and lost
moves
graduations
loss of work
living off our food storage (didn't think I'd ever have to do that)
COUNTLESS road trips: ID, CA, UT, WA, Twin Lakes, OR, Vegas
long sleepless nights with sick children
sick us
car accidents (little ones)
upgrades and downgrades in our finances
lessons of home ownership
callings in church that have tested us
long nights at home alone while Jeff was working
tantrums - by all of us! :)
Friends who've changed our lives for the better
waterskiing: all of us!!!
hospital stays - me and even Lea
family reunions - everywhere
good times and difficult ones
Knowing what I know now, I would do it all over again.
Heard this quote yesterday (woman talking about marrying her husband who had passed away)
'I'd do it all over again. We were married for 8 years, but I'd do it even if it was 8 minutes. It's all or nothin'.'
1 comment:
Awww, you guys are so cute!
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