Our anniversary ..

Jeff and I celebrated 16 years of marriage on friday .. we have been together for 20 years .. seeing how i am only "24" .. that is a long time .. i thought i would share a few pictures of our big day with you ..

this is jeff spielmann on the left .. i know .. look how handsome he is .. and jeff conrad on the right .. needless to say everyone always called them by their last names .. jeff conrad and i went to elementary school together .. conrad lived down the street from spielmann when we were in school .. they also played soccer together .. we are still friends with the conrads to this day .. conrad and his very cute wife, tiffany and their 3 kiddos live in houston .. conrad introduced us .. acutally he talked spielmann into inviting him and 2 other guys to the lake for the day .. good thing spielmann did .. invite themselves to the lake for the day .. because our first date came soon after ..

awww .. how sweet .. me and my dad .. we had a small .. very non-fancy wedding .. not by my choosing .. i wanted the whole 9 yards .. big dress .. big church .. big reception .. big price tag .. instead .. we had a small and non-fancy wedding and built a house and bought furniture .. it may have been the smartest thing that i have ever done .. according to my dad ... but i would still to this day have had the big version of our plain and non-fancy wedding ..

i don't remember what he said to me .. i wish to gosh i did .. because it must have been pretty funny ..

look how young we look .. we were young .. a whole 22 years old .. on friday morning when we woke up jeff says to me .. will you marry me again .. will you spend another 16 years with me .. i said yes i will .. but this half you have to do the laundry and take out the trash .. !!

so to make sure that the next 16 years are very well documented i got a dream of a new camera .. the cannon eos 7D .. i am in love .. so now i will make a coffee and read about my super fancy new camera .. it shoots 18 jpeg pictures which are huge files so i am not sure how many of the pictures i will be able to post on my blog .. they are so big that they take forever to upload .. my poor little internet company can't handle really big files .. you will just have to believe me that it takes amazing pictures .. and it shoots video .. i am telling you .. that spielmann .. he sure knows how to sweep a girl off her feet .. tight wranglers with silkys stuffed in his back pocket he is not .. he is the more silent sweet type .. and you know what .. i think that i will keep him around another 16 years or so ..