Look at us.

So young and full of hope.

When the camera shutter opened and captured this moment,
there were so many things we didn’t know.

We didn’t know that—

• four children would fill our hearts and our home.
• our four children would marry four other children and produce 12 more children.
• we would spend agonizing weeks in pediatric ICU.
• hours would be spent at baseball/basketball/softball/volleyball games, to our delight.
• musicals, plays and concerts would be our chief entertainment and joy.
• there would be many trips to the ER for stitches and broken bones.
• gallons of Kool-Aid and millions of chocolate chip cookies would be consumed.
• one heart would need three bypasses.
• six different houses would become home.
• hundreds of sermons would be preached and thousands of songs would be sung.

If we knew then what we know now—
we’d do it all again.