On a cold and icy Valentine’s Day five years ago, Mike proposed in our super tiny Leesburg condo. That beautiful day and beautiful ring kicked off a whirlwind year for us, filled with ups (the joys of wedding planning) and downs (a crazy unknown illness requiring a several day hospital stay and being laid off from my job) and everything in between. I knew that if we could survive the year that was our engagement, we could survive anything.

Since we both hate dressing up, we wore our football jerseys for our engagement photos.

Breaking ground on our new place!

So here we are, five years later, getting ready to celebrate our four year anniversary in a few short weeks. Like the engagement, our marriage has seen its share of ups and downs,but at the risk of sounding incredibly cheesy and un-Kristin-like, it keeps getting better.

Happy Valentine’s Day babe!