Virginia Beach portrait and lifestyle photographer specializing in comfortable portraits and candids
The Lord blessed me when he gave me a husband with the birthday of 8-8-88. As all of my friends can attest, I am the worst a remembering birthdays. I’m humbled every year on mine when I receive text messages from people who I haven’t talked to in forever wishing me a happy birthday. So, I also have a little anxiety about remembering other dates. Thankfully, Chad and I share an anniversary with my parents, so I usually remember that one… but I thought I’d write down our “dates” for reference.
August 18 2007 | Weekend We Met | IV Leadership Retreat
December 8, 2007 | Asked Me Out | Melrose Dance
February 9, 2008 | Started Dating | Winter Retreat
February 27, 2010 | Proposed | Virginia Beach
October 24, 2010 | Married | Bristow Manor
In researching all of these dates, I realized a few things. God has used InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in my life more than I know! IV is where I was introduced to Evangelical Christianity, and where I met my husband. Not only where we met, but our first real date was an InterVarsity dance, and we started dating at an InterVarsity conference! The proposal and marriage we did on our own, but what a testimony! Also, we seem to be fall/winter heavy with our big events. What does that mean? And finally, VIRGNIA has been very good to us. No matter where life takes us, this state has our history locked in!
Anyway, I’m glad to have spent the time looking up these dates. Most of them probably won’t be celebrated, but it’s fun to be able to look back and say, “about this time of year was when we were dancing for the first time!”
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