8 years and counting...........

October 18, 2000-that was the day Joni and I had our first date. It wasn't even really a date actually. I told him I'd cook him dinner if he got a loan closed on time for one of my clients. We ate dinner, drank a bottle of wine, talked and talked, drank another bottle of wine, went outside on my patio and talked and talked and talked until we had to leave to go buy another bottle of wine, came back and talked some more. We finished 3 bottles of wine and talked until 4:00 am. I had no idea what I was getting into, but I sure am glad I got in!! It has been 8 years filled with just about everything you can possibly imagine. Lots of struggles but also lots of rewards, we've been through it all and we've been lucky enough to learn from it. I love him more everyday and I am so thankful he got that loan closed :) I look forward to the future and I know that we can get through anything together. Take a look at some of these pictures. How come he looks better with age and I just look older???? No fair.

March 2000, this was the very first picture we ever took together, not my best look but it's the first so I had to show it
And this is the most recent picture of us, taken last week at my birthday dinner. October 2008
December 2007
December 2006 October 2005, we went to Hawaii for my 30th birthday
Grand Canyon, September 2004

Our first trip to Hawaii, June 2003
With Blake and Bailey, Christopher Creek January 2002. They are all so cute!!
After to much wine, as usual, in March 2002
This is one of my all time favorites, we were so young! July 2001