Our Fifth Anniversary!

This past Friday, Steven and I celebrated our five year wedding anniversary! We are so thankful to have met and started our relationship almost eleven years ago and to be celebrating five years of an incredible marriage. God has blessed our lives with each other and increased our family over these years with two beautiful children. His goodness to us is overwhelming. On Friday night, we were able to go to dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse (with sleeping Elise in tow) and enjoy some one-on-one conversation. It was a wonderful time!

Here are some pictures of our family over these past five years:

Our wedding day, October 16, 2004:


Christmas 2004 (in our first home - the apartment off of Tyvola Road):


Our first anniversary - 2005 (celebrated at Cherry Grove Beach, NC):


Our second anniversary - 2006 (celebrated at Macaroni Grill in Charlotte):


Our third anniversary - 2007 (celebrated at the Melting Pot in Charlotte; I was almost 9 months pregnant with Isaac):


Our fourth anniversary - 2008 (celebrated with a family trip to Blowing Rock, NC; Isaac is 11 months old):



Our babies:

Isaac - almost 23 months old on our fifth anniversary:


Elise - 2 weeks old on our fifth anniversary:


Our fifth anniversary - 2009:



We thank God for the blessing of our marriage and all the incredible joys He's brought us throughout these years together! It's been awesome, and we are confident that even greater things are yet to come!