Actually it's been more like seven years, but yesterday, on our fifth anniversary, we spent some time looking back at all the experiences of our five years of married life and decided that it really has been a lot of fun. We started this blog over three years ago (can you imagine? Three years! I mean, whatever did we write about before Calvin was born? Ourselves?) and looking back through the site archives is a bit like perusing a family photo album. It's true what they say about the road map of life, though; just like a road map, which highlights only the most interesting stops, twists, and turns, the blog (and our photo albums, for that matter) shares mostly the amusing stops along our life route, 
but not much of the road itself. So what of the road? Forty years from now, when we sit on our front porch rockers and reminisce about the good old days, will we remember only those recorded moments? Or will we remember just as well sharing coffee over the newspaper on Saturday mornings, taking family walks to the mailbox in the evening, or taking turns washing the dishes while the other lords over bath, book, and bed time? Really we already know the answer to this; it is already hard to remember how we filled our time when we were just a family of two, the day to day of that era, gone only two years ago, has already slipped gradually from our memories. But every once in a while something will remind us of late nights playing Trivial Pursuit, or of luxurious weekends spent reading aloud by the pool at our old apartment. Whether we remember them as vividly or not, 
really it's the every day, the small moments, that make up the meat of our lives, and we are going to make a conscious effort to enjoy, photograph, and record those moments as often as we do the more momentous occasions, so that we can remember what these days were all about.
We were behind, but now we're caught up. Lots of new pictures in the July 2008 Album!