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Last night, while Dan was digging through some papers in preparation of filing our taxes, he came across an anniversary book I had put together a couple of years ago.  My friend, Katey, had inspired me, as she had one.  It was filled with pictures from each of her wedding anniversaries and descriptions of where they were living and what was going on in their lives at the time of each one.

For our 10th anniversary, I gave Dan the book I had made.  I had found pictures for each of the years we’d been married and was also able to describe where we’d been and what was happening during those times in our lives.

I, of course, had intended to keep it up.

Ha.

So, when Dan found the book last night, we got a good laugh looking at some of the pictures and then I decided that I would up date it.  I had three anniversaries to add.  Should be a cinch.

During Sam’s naptime this afternoon, I got out my external harddrive and started sifting through pictures from the last three years.  As I did this, I became more and more depressed.  There were some terrific pictures of our kids.  And of other people’s kids.  And our house.  And a couple of baptisms.  But very, very, pathetically few of Dan and me.  Virtually none, as a matter of fact!

This tells me a few of things:

1.  We need to make it so we focus as much on ourselves as a couple as we do on our children.

2.  We need more people to come visit so they can take some pictures for us. (You are welcome any time!)

3.  We need to either start taking some self-timed photos, goofy hold-out-the-camera-in-front-of-you-photos, or relinquish the camera to the kids once in a while.

As much as I dread having my picture taken this late in my pregnancy, Dan is going to come home to a photo shoot today.  While I managed to find pictures for most of the years that we’ve been married, I was unable to find ANY for this year!  Three months into 2010 and there are no pictures of us together.

Pathetic.

I’d show you all the pics I have in the book so far, but my scanner won’t work without ink (whatever) and the kids have used up all my ink, printing crap from NickJr.com.  So… here are the few I can show you:

1997

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2008

2009