Date Flick

What do LOTR geeks do for their anniversary? They go watch the recently released movie The Hobbit, of course!

I forgot to share this last month, but here is my beautiful wife as we are about to enter a theater in Rochester, NY for the first time in years. In fact, the last we did this together was probably back when the last of the LOTR Trilogy came out - Return of the King!

Great partner, great movie, and a yummy bag of popcorn... doesn't get much better than that :)

Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to my friend, companion, lover, sister, girl, and wife, Elizabeth Follman.

I adore you.

With much love,

Your Hubby :)

Warm Shot

This is one of my wife's favorite pics from our anniversary trip. Shot from Anna Maria Island, Tampa Bay waters, of the Anna Maria pier.

If you are in cold weather (like most of the country is!) maybe this can generate some warm and fuzzy thoughts :)

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

My wife and I are enjoying some much appreciated R&R to celebrate 10 years of marriage together. We will also be enjoying some time with family for Chrtmas over the next little bit.

I wanted to let my readers know that for the next few days leading up to and through Christmas I'll be sharing some pics and short thoughts from our journeys and time with family with you. Please enjoy, and may God bless you as you celebrate this wonderful time of year with those you love.

By the way, the pic above is a shot of the sunset over the Gulf of Mexico, taken Sunday night. Our view is absolutely gorgeous!

Ten Years of Love

It's been fun reminiscing through the past ten years of marriage to my beautiful wife Elizabeth :) As a final installment before our actual anniversary post (scroll through my old posts for others), I wanted to share a recent portrait of the family, unveiled on the web for the first time!

From our dating days until now, who would have known the wonderful journey God would lead us on. A young, twitterpated couple, now ten years older (and hopefully wiser), blessed with five beautiful children, and still twitterpated :0)

I thank God for my wife and the time we have been able to share together, and I greatly look forward with anticipation to the next decade of marriage together!

Arrows in the Quiver

If you have been following my blog at all, I have been doing regular posts on my wife and my relationship, spanning the last decade and more. Next month, we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary, and it's definitely been fun looking back on our marriage and how things have changed over the years.

The Bible says in Psalm 127:3-5,

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
   the fruit of the womb a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
   are the children of one’s youth.
Blessed is the man
   who fills his quiver with them!
He shall not be put to shame
   when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.


In 2003, we were blessed with our first baby, Lauren. Since then, God has also blessed us with Josiah, Carson, Judah and Caleb. Five arrows in our quiver!


For fun, I thought I'd upload a baby pic of each of our kids and see if you could guess which picture belongs to who...


Give it a shot, and let me know who's who!

Monsters Inc

This fall/winter marks the 10th anniversary of the Disney/Pixar film Monsters Inc. I normally wouldn't care a lick about that, except for the fact that Monsters Inc was the first movie my wife and I ever saw together as a married couple.

We had just gotten married in upstate NY, and had honeymooned in the Adirondack Mountains in the northern part of the state. We stayed in a small rustic cabin where we enjoyed our first week of marriage together. It was a quaint, secluded, peaceful little spot to share those first few moments together.

One of the things we did while on our honeymoon was visit a local mall that happened to still be showing the romantic flick (ha!) Monsters Inc. It turned out to be semi-romantic as we were able to have the theater all to ourselves! Not sure if that was divine favor or the fact that nobody wanted to see the movie anymore, either way, it makes for good memories.

So, as my third installment of reflecting on 10 years of marriage to my lovely bride, for your viewing pleasure here is the creative intro to Monsters Inc that we saw together as we watched the film 10 years ago. Enjoy!

PS. For any Monsters Inc nerds out there, the above photo is a pin that can be purchased here ;)

Happy!

This December, my wife and I will have been married 10 years. That's right, a decade. It has been an amazing 10 years of marriage with the love of my life, Elizabeth. I constantly tell younger people to marry someone who is married to Jesus first. I can give them that advice because its what I did. Liz was married to Jesus before we ever got together, and so was I, and it has made all the difference in our relationship.

Over the next few weeks leading up to our anniversary, I am going to post some pics and reminisce about some of our times together. As a teaser and a warm-up so to speak, here is a throw back photo from back in the day. I had to scan this in as this was before our digital camera or smartphone days!

Lead-in... this is a shot when Liz and I were a few months into seeing each other. We were headed to a Garth Fagan dance production at Nazareth College [my Alma mater] in Rochester, NY. [you can tell it is early in our dating years by the size of the twitterpated grins on our faces!]