This was taken over a year ago in March. It marked our first outing as a family after I turned in my first completed book draft. We all had to sacrifice a little to make the book happen. We gave up most of our Saturdays, so I could spend all day working since Ben was home and could run the show. Looking back at these pictures remind me of that special season of our lives and the relief we all felt after that March 1st deadline. I’m glad my friend Kimberly Genevieve (and Andre!) met us out in the dessert to capture this special time.
Anyway, I’m totally late in sharing these (I just kept forgetting to), but I thought since today marks the birthday of our family (it’s our wedding anniversary), it was about time to share these photos in today’s post. To celebrate today, I’m just making Ben one of his favorite dishes for dinner and we will have a quiet dinner in our room, after the girls go to bed, and watch 24 (season 8, since we want to refresher before we watch this newest season). We both agreed Singapore was a fantastic way to commemorate it, so low-key at home, on the actual day, works perfectly fine for us.
We were telling the girls how special today is because it’s our family’s birthday, and they were like, “No, you weren’t a family because we weren’t there yet.” Ben explained that we became a family the day we got married and our family just kept growing as each of them joined. The big girls get it now, but Soul is still insistent that July 9th won’t be a birthday unless there’s cake involved, so we just might need to find time to make cake today too.
We went from two to six in just a matter of nine years… had just a taste of the wonderful (and sometimes bad) and unexpected craziness of life, but lots of grace and forgiveness given daily. Cheers to 9!
Photos by Kimberly Genevieve and you can see more here on 100 Layer Cakelet.
Congrats!! We celebrated our 9 on the 2nd! I love the idea of a family birthday 🙂
Sarah M
Happy birthday to your family too!
congratulations! happy anniversary and birthday to your family~
Thank you!
Happy anniversary! And happy birthday to your family. 🙂
Thank you Cathy!
awwww. beautiful! i love how you and ben explained that to the girls….even though we don’t have a baby….we are a FAMILY! love that, and happiest of anniversary to you ruby! God bless you and your marriage!
Danica
Yep, you two are definitely a family! Thank you Danica!
love these pictures!!!!!!! congratulations!
so cute! Happy Anniversary (a day late!) I’m always behind on my blog catch-up!
Thank you Cinthya!
gorgeous photos! love that dress of yours!
xxoo,
nikki
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Love! Where is your dress from?
It’s an Ace and Jig dress, but I got it on super sale from anthropologie about a year ago.
So sweet! Happy nine-versary!
Love the colors in these pictures and that dress is definitely a keeper!