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2011 - The Year B.C.

I think in our hearts we new that 2011 would be the last year were childless, Lord willing.  We started it off right by going to Italy in March!  What a beautiful country and you looked gorgeous in your black little dress framed with art and venetian architecture around every corner.  Drinking a glass of wine along the Grand Canal and taking a bus in the countryside to tour the vineyards.  One of my favorite places to visit was San Gimignano.  It was like a place stuck in time.  I can't believe we actually made it back after all the secret places to buy bus tickets closed and we basically begged the bus driver to drive us back without a ticket.  And then there was the incident in Pisa where the conductor berated me for not getting our ticket validated at the super secret ticket validation place.  But what Italy lacked in hospitality, they certainly made up in art.

In 2011 we moved to the Hosea house.  It gave us a little more room and made us feel like we had a real home.  And we moved because we (you?) wanted the cats.  Pick one: baby or kitty.

Ah and then there were our first kids, Jasper and Romeo.  They provided so much entertainment.  We brought them home and they immediately hid under the couch for the first night.  But that was the only night.  After that they would terrorize us, and each other, and demand food.  They would pounce on our feet in the middle of the night.  And Jasper even broke his foot because he was terrorizing the house.  They kept getting up on the counter and so I constructed a motion activated water gun that worked surprisingly well. 

Besides those two big things, there wasn't much that happened in 2011...oh yeah, because we were SO busy with weddings.  This was our busiest year.  20 WEDDINGS!  And some where even double header weekends.  The editing...we spent every hour that wasn't our real job (because I still had classes and you were still working at Goddard), editing, final checks, managing clients, driving.  I look back at 2011 and was so thankful that you were with me through all of it.  I think our marriage would look a lot different today if you weren't apart of Artistic Vision.  You were my companion and I was so thankful that we did not loose the time together.  We coincidently, we learned more about marriage at those weddings, frantically, barely, and stressfully getting the shot, and then having to smile and pretend like we have it all together.  A good marriage builder if I do say so myself.

And we would need all the preparation we could get, for 2012...




First family picture!



















You beating angry birds

Oh yeah! Flying Mexican ninja.

You were thoroughly impressed.



The weekend we thought I almost got a concussion.




Anniversary!






Yeah baby!


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