Flashback Friday

My super friend did this last week, so I thought I would join in this fun bloggy thing! Also, since many of my readers haven't really known me for that long, I will be able to share a little of my past (most of it with blond hair!)

I thought my first Flashback Friday should be some pictures of Mike and me while we were engaged. This first one was taken at Multnomah Falls in Oregon in April of 1999, right around the time when we realized we were each others' "one". It is SUCH a beautiful place. Yes, we look young! (You can click on the pictures to make them bigger!)

This next picture is taken on the Clearwater River in Idaho. Mike grew up in Kooskia, an itty bitty town of 600 people, on this river. The picture of us isn't very clear, but the scenery is awesome. Mike took me on a picnic and drive this day in May 1999, the day before I was moving back to Oklahoma for the summer. At this point, we knew we were getting married, we just didn't know when, where, or where we would live or anything. I had gone out to Idaho for only a semester and then met Mike. Anyway, it's a long story, but I ended up moving out there for real that August and then we got married in November. This is about 2 hours from where we lived in Moscow, Idaho. Mike actually used a timed camera to take this picture. He sat it on a rock and then jumped out to the rock where I am standing. I thought for sure he was going to fall into the river!

These next two pictures are from our engagement pictures. They were taken in September 1999 by Mike's best friend David.


I can't believe that this year we have been married 9 years...wow! Who would have thought that God would bring two people together from two tiny towns in two totally different parts of the country! I praise God that He did! I am so blessed by my husband! This is the verse that was on the front of our wedding program:
Ephesians 3:20-21
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.