Embrace the Camera: Me and my love

This picture was one of the favorite emails I got while I was in Argentina. Subject line read: "GREAT picture of us. You look SO GOOD!" This meant so much to me... at the time, I was wearing crusty paint jeans for the third day in a row, and I did not feel beautiful. Actually, I wasn't even thinking about feeling beautiful at the time, I was there to serve, but knowing that Micah thought that across the world blessed my heart in a way that I cannot describe... feeling so treasured there after a long day in my crusty jeans!
Husbands, if your wife's love language is Words of Affirmation, she never gets tired of hearing sweet things like this!

So... Embrace the Camera is all about getting in front of the camera with our loved ones. I have to confess that for as much as I love Micah, we are almost never in front of the camera together! (So sad!) So, I have been making an intentional effort to stop for a photo with him more this year, for many reasons:
1) We've been together long enough that sometimes we look different (me more than Micah, he may look the same forever, actually) than the pictures we have on the walls. Of our wedding. Almost seven years ago.
2) He's my favorite person to look at. Why wouldn't I love more pictures of him?
3) Hannah loves to take our picture. (We just can NEVER EVER forget to make her wear the strap on her wrist. See entry from last week about broken camera. Sad day.)
4) Pictures that show how much we love each other are really valuable to us today, and even more valuable to our family someday. I had the great privilege of making a slideshow for the family when my grandma Sarah Ann passed away this past December. I can't tell you how sweet it was to see all those pictures of her and my grandpa holding each other so tight... and there were some from their newlywed days that were just too cute for words! Their marriage is a great example to me, my parents, our family... and inspires us all to one day have a love story like theirs! Photos are a great way to capture the moments along the way as we grow old together! (yes, Micah and I are getting old, I can say that)
But we're still young enough to have some fun. Here's a few of us hamming it up on a Saturday morning for Hannah:

Check out some of the other fun photos at Embrace the Camera with Emily and the Anderson Crew!