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Date Night

Tim and I don’t go out all that often. You could say that we are bad at dates. When (or if) we go out to dinner, we are done in 45 minutes. We can rarely decide on movies to see. Often we decide that something we might want to do isn’t worth spending the money on. Not to mention we have two small children who are hard to shed.

But tonight, Jordan and Amy graciously let us leave the house without the boys! What were our big date plans, you may ask? Errands, of course!

First we hit up Target where I got a few things for a craft room I’m organizing, restocked our home pharmacy, tried on some dresses (me) and checked out the Lego and Nerf selection (Tim)

But because this was a date, it wasn’t all business. We stopped and played some Wii. I’ll give you one guess which character I was.

The next stop was Dairy Queen. Mmm…Blizzards! Oreo for me, something too chocolatey for Tim.

One of the main things we went out for was to look for a phone. Yes, we are stepping back in time and getting a land line. Future shop was closed, and Walmart was out of the cheapest ones. Neither of us were prepared for the price of these things!

So no phone yet, but we did get some expensive light bulbs for our kitchen. Yay!

And that is how the Sevenhuysens date.

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Our Wedding Day

Today is our 3 year anniversary. Yay us!

I am not a sappy emotional person, so I will spare you an ode to Tim or our life together. Instead, I will bring out the ol’ wedding photographs.

All photos are by Vanessa Voth Photography, and you can view her original post for our wedding here (there are different photos than what I chose for this post).

My Something Borrowed…earrings my friend wore at her own wedding.

She had just watched the Royal Wedding the previous day, so she knew exactly what (she wanted) to do.

The flowers that lined the aisle later became the flowers for the reception tables.

Right before The Walk.

Hello Fraser River! Hello awkward hug.

The party.

The ladies.

The men.

Super secret awesome photo location: the old Albion ferry dock in Fort Langley.

Killing time at Wendel’s in Fort Langley.

There was a playoff game that night, so we had to come in like this.

Thanks for coming, guests!

I may not remember exactly, but I think we aced this test.

My Oma and I made our cake, and the topper was from my parents’ cake.

Watching the slide show.

I will forever remember this day, and look forward to celebrating many more years of marriage!

I love you, Tim!

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Throwback Thursday: How I Met My Valentine

It’s Valentine’s Day!

To me, that means I make food that I know Tim really really likes. Oh, and I made him a little card and stuck it in his backpack for him to find when he got to work. We are not big celebrators of this “holiday” or even our anniversary really. To be fair, we have only had one anniversary and we had a two week old baby at the time.

Anyways, I thought that today would be a good day to document how Tim and I met.

When I moved to Victoria in April 2008, I subletted half of a room in a house from the niece of a family friend. The other half of the room was rented by Kate. We were room mates for a few months, and since I didn’t have any of my own friends, I hung out with her and her friends. One of her friends was Tim. We attended the same parties or get togethers a few times, but being both introverts we never spoke a word to each other. I knew Tim as Kate’s geeky friend who liked Nerf guns.

In the Winter and Spring of 2010, Kate and I were room mates once again. And Tim lived only a couple blocks away from our place. Kate would go often to hang out with him on the weekends if I had to work or something, but I never went over. Then, that Summer, we all started hanging out together more. Tim was looking for a new church to attend, so he started going to the one Kate and I went to. Since we lived near each other, we would walk there together. The walks were fairly quiet, as we warmed up to one another, but soon I considered him a friend.

A month or two after we were hanging out more, Kate got a job in For MacMurray and left us. Her farewell was something along these lines:

You two are not allowed to hang out together when I am gone because you are going to have too much fun without me.

But we disobeyed. A very short while after she left, I invited Tim to go to Symphony Splash with me, where he then invited me to go see “Inception” with him because he really enjoyed the movie, and I had not seen it yet. Little did I know that the movie was our first date, even though I paid for myself.

A few weeks in to our new found relationship, we knew that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, and were engaged after 6 weeks of dating. That’s how we do it, folks!

Maybe I will have a post about our engagement and our wedding another time.

And for now, here are pretty much the only two good photos we have together of our dating period: