Today is our eleven year wedding anniversary!
Happy Anniversary, Steven! I appreciate all the hard work you do for our family, and the support you give me. And I especially applaud your idea to expand our family this year!
Ha, I was going to write out our story, but it appears I did that last year! <— so click there if you want to read it!
I did dig up an old photo from around the time we first started dating (fall 2002):
Aww, babies!
I told a coworker our eleven year anniversary is this weekend and they said “Wow! You married young!”
Maybe? I was twenty-three, and Steven was twenty-six. That is somewhat young for Chicagoland, but not for where I came from. By the time I got married, a lot of my high school classmates had been married for a while and had children. Everything is relative, right?
It’s interesting to me though, to look back at our wedding photos and see so many old friends – not old in age, but old as in, “from a long time ago.” That is due to getting married young (right after college) and not having any “adult” friends yet, outside from my job. So most of the people at, and in my wedding party, are people I’m not in touch with anymore outside of social media, because of life – we aren’t around each other every day due to school and work. There’s nothing wrong with that – it’s normal – just something I think about once a year when I look at our wedding photos!
Anyway.
We don’t have big anniversary plans! I bet we’ll go out to dinner or do something fun at some point. For now, we just want to chill at home. And maybe we’ll take a trip this year – that’s something we wanted to do last year but it didn’t happen due to work.
Here’s to another year of fun and adventure!
Our most current “nice” picture
HAPPY ANNIVERSIMITAT!!!
Thank you!
Happy Anniversary! And too funny, I thought “babies” as I scrolled down and saw that picture of you guys dating, and then your caption…yep. 🙂
Wishing you two many many happy years ahead!
Thanks! Ha – read your mind 😉
Thank you!!! 🙂
Happy anniversary, you two!! I told Harrison, and he was like, “Wow, they got married young!” and then you addressed that right in your post. I love visiting you two and seeing you work together as a team, making meals and doing house things and caring for all the animals around you. Here’s to 11+ more years!
Thanks! LOL, Harrison! How old were you guys? Mid 20s?
Aww, thank you! I was just thinking about how much fun we had when you were here. And of course, that trip we never took and mentioned in this post was to SF. Sigh. I am hoping for this year!
Con-cat-ulations!
Ha! Thank you!
Congrats…you guys even look like babies in your wedding pictures. heres to many more years 🙂
Thanks!
Congratulations, Kim and Steven! Wishing you many more happy years together to come!
Thank you!
Congratulations! You make a great team. And yep, you look so young! So sweet!!
Thank you!
Congratulations on eleven years – that’s amazing. 🙂 I feel like 23 is a pretty “normal” age to get married, but I guess as more and more of us put off marriage (ahem, not always by choice!), it starts to seem very young to some! But hey, when you find your person, what’s the point in waiting?!
Thank you! 🙂 And I do think that is why it seems young to a lot of people, and there is NOTHING wrong with that, but also nothing wrong with not waiting, like you said! (And I did feel like I waited FOREVER. Ha. He proposed when I was 20!!!)
Happy (belated) Anniversary to you two! You guys are such awesome partners, which is refreshing to see 🙂 Here’s to many more years (and kittens, obvs) together!
By Chicago standards, yes, you got married very young! Just like in Iowa, lots of people I grew up with in Ohio were getting married right out of college, which is great for them lol. The idea of getting married definitely freaked me out when I was 23, but obviously I just hadn’t met the right person yet. I’m happy that you guys did!
Thank you! I think we should add on a kitten a year! No? Yes?! DEFINITELY YES.
It’s crazy how different it is from city to rural, right? And something different works for everyone, which is what makes life interesting. It totally cracked me up then, hearing how “young” I was to get married when I had waited several years (yes, to finish college)!
Sounds like you guys are going to need to adopt more kittens, pronto 🙂
I just can’t wrap my head around being engaged in college!
Happy Anniversary!
Thank you!
Happy anniversary! May you two have many more anniversaries in the future 🙂
I would imagine the culture in Iowa is quite similar to the culture in West Michigan, and by those standards, I would say you definitely did not marry young at all! As of the wedding I went to a couple of weekends ago, I can finally say that I’ve been to more weddings in my lifetime than I went to immediately after graduating college in 2012 (when all the brides and grooms were 21-22 years old): I went to five weddings from June-November of 2012, and I’ve been to six other weddings total in my entire life. You meet someone in high school or college and marry them as soon as possible after you graduate. That’s just The Way Things Are. It wasn’t until I moved to Chicago that I realized that though that may be The Way Things Are in West Michigan, it is most certainly not The Way Things Are in the city! Just this weekend I was reminiscing about a wedding I went to five years ago of two people who met at a small liberal arts college in Iowa, and they were the last of their friends to get married by a long shot–and they were 22 and 23 years old! Different cultures in different places, for sure.
You bring up an interesting point about the people who attended your wedding, though! If I had gotten married straight out of college, I would’ve had a SUBSTANTIALLY different guest list than I’ll have at this stage in my life. I don’t keep in touch with anyone from college anymore, and haven’t for years, but if I had gotten married at 23, I bet a solid third of the guest list would’ve been friends I had in college.
Thank you!
Oh wow! Funny that you are just now catching up with all the post college weddings. That is a common thing to do, right? College and wedding! (or what it felt like in my hometown, high school, kid, wedding) It’s all so interesting and fun to hear about and discuss. Because hey, my grandparents all got married when they were super young and made it to their 50th wedding anniversaries and I think that’s super cool!
Isn’t that crazy about the guest list then vs now? And again, just another “that’s the way things are.” Nothing wrong with it, it’s just SUPER typical. My husband’s groomsmen were all people he went to grade school through high school with and is still friends with, which I thought was cool!