7 Years and Loving Each Other More and More...Happy Anniversary!

And it all began on June 16th, 2000 when Dan and I met and started dating not long after, and not long after dating fell in love!  February 11th 2001 Dan proposed to me by playing  a sweet song he wrote and played for me on the guitar...of course I said "YES!"  I was definitely suprised!  Finally, December 15th, 2001 came and we tied the knot at the church we were attending at the time.  It was a blistery day...imagine that, but it looked beautiful inside with all the white lights and Christmas trees!  And I got to marry the love of my life!  Cheers to 7 years! Come and join me for a short walk down memory lane...I realized I don't have a ton of pictures of us by ourselves after the kiddos started coming! :)

Look how young we were...just turned 21 a couple months before...this is a picture of the first time he saw me in my wedding dress before we got married...it was a beautiful day and we were surrounded by our family and friends!  

I don't have any pictures scanned from when we were just married because they are in a scrapbook...so after we got married I changed jobs to an office job at Salem Cardiology, we switched churches and Dan went to school...finally in May 2003 he completed his degree at Western Baptist.  Got hired on at Salem Heights January 1, 2004.  We were quite poor and lived in some ghetto apartments, we heated our apartment by lighting a ton of candles, but we were in love and that's what mattered!  After Dan got hired on at SHC we moved out South to some different apartments...a little better than what we were in before, and started saving for a home!  Anna again switched job to a different cardiologists and then got pregnant...

Found out we were having a lil boy, named him Josiah and he was born on August 18, 2004, what a joyous time in our life!  

December 24th, 2004 we headed to the East Coast with Dan's family to surprise his brother Mike who was a guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, it was FREEZING there and Josiah was only 4 months old...

March 2005 we again headed to the East Coast to see the sights and stayed with Dan's Dad who was working back East for a bit...this is Easter...Josiah 7 months old

July 2005 Dan and I headed to the Oregon Coast for a couple days by ourselves...no Josiah, this was after our first family trip on the Arizona Missions Trip...

May 5, 2006 Jill and Nolan's wedding and Anna is pregnant with Micah, he is only a month and a half away from coming in this picture...Micah arrived June 20, 2006

Christmas 2006 - our growing family...

2007 we headed back East, here we are at Dan's beloved Red Sox game - they were playing the Baltimore Orioles, the boys were back at home with Grandma Steiner and Dan's Dad was at the game with us...we have loved going to sporting events together...and can't wait till our kids are old enough and will enjoy it too!  OH yah, after we got home from this trip I found out I was pregnant again...baby girl this time!  :)

Mother's Day 2008 - Cambria joined our family December 17th, 2007...

September 2007 - this is before CAmbria was born, sorry it got out of order, Dan and I got a chance to go on a short trip before our 3rd was coming to Cambria, California to his grandparents beach house to relax.  Thanks to my mom  and Dad and Jill the boys were well taken care of!  IT was a WONDERFUL relaxing trip and I didn't cook much either which was GREAT!  

And us today...on our Anniversary...Happy 7 Years!   We took our 3 beautiful children that God has blessed us with out in the snow to play and finally took a  picture of ourselves...my how we have gotten so old...:) We have sooo many more memories, these are just a few from the pictures I have pulled out to share.  I am so thankful for my husband!  (He wouldn't let me write anymore about him!)  I look forward to growing old with him in the years to come and building more and more memories!

I LOVE YOU!