Blast from the Past. Seven Years Ago…

ByKristina March 25, 2013

I’m a little bit of a sap, and I celebrate little things like Ryan and I’s first date & first kiss.

Well yesterday marked seven years since our first date (we went and saw Failure to Launch), our first kiss and was the same evening I knew he was the one.

While I could write another post about how smitten I am with his handsome lad, I have about five hundred of those posts on the blog already. So instead I decided I would share a couple of photos from 2006. These were taken June of 2006 on his first trip to visit me in Kansas.

Happy Monday!

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