the kind of love that lasts forever

it has been awhile. it has been so long awhile that i can't figure out the re-telling of all that has happened. love was promised, dreams came true, decisions were made, it snowed and fires burned.
extreme optimism was born and encouraged.


the kind of life moments that force your heart to get bigger to contain it all. they happened.

and they kept happening. we decided to put them first.
honestly, what job satisfaction trumps watching best friends get married on top of a hill in the forest?





we walked two miles in the snow to vote our guy into the white house. and then we cried because that hope that we had been daring feel was okay and real! then we started to feel something new: pride. again with the extreme optimism!
the sun set and rose and set and the days got shorter and colder and quiet.

there is nowhere else to look except up and forward. and that is a great feeling.