I love that little hashtag. I've never participated online because I never remember and I'm too busy looking at everyone else's.
I thought I would join in this time, so here we go:
#tbt to 12 years ago, the very first picture of Bryce and I:
Aww! Aren't we cute?
Gosh, 12 years ago......I was 21, B was 25...I had just bought my first cellphone that year and had learned how to text probably a month before this picture. People still bought CDs & pagers were still around.
I always try to imagine what Bryce saw in me, just weeks before this picture was taken. What was alluring about this short girl, with pink bangs, pink ears and a loud voice? There was something because we never dated anyone else.
Here's another #tbt to 11 years ago, the night B proposed:
Oh yah, we partied it up that night....and I became his fiancee (out of costume, thank goodness). Again, 22 & 26 years old. Wow.
Anyways, I love looking back to see how far we've come. We had no idea what it meant to be man & wife probably for the first year or so. We grew so much and now, it's not even mechanical or by rote. We are still growing and learning.
Something my friend Austin said to me tonight rang true for me & Bryce as well. He said, "We've played together for so long that I can anticipate your chemistry onstage. I know when you're going to move."
Bryce & I have been together for so long that I can anticipate every action, thought or word. I can call him out when I know he's going to say something inappropriate. He knows how to calm me down before I start stressing because he can see it coming.
We work together like cheese &........mmmmm, toasted sourdough, but not the sliced kind. No, it has to be the loaf where it's a little thicker, maybe with a slight garlic crust. Yes....and butter, REAL butter! You have to eat the toast with the cheese while it's still warm 'cause then the cheese doesn't melt, but it gets soft and slides on your tongue.......oh, uh....where was I?
1 comment:
Funny (admission here) I don't read many of your blogs, but our friendship is throwback for me. Almost like a song, when I see or read something from you on FB, it takes me back to that period of my life. The coda of that song is recognition that God has a good plan for us. We just need to chill out, listen, navigate the bumps without letting any of him spill out of our cup (and if we do we just need to ask and BAM! free refill). At any rate, I'm glad for all of God's bumps--then and now--and for the life I have (with a full cup!) with my awesome wife who tries her best to keep me in line. Congrats to you and Bryce on the wonderful family you've created!
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