We are constantly in the presence of true love, as well as in charge of documenting it.  So it’s nice when we get to pause and celebrate our own love and appreciate our marriage that is already somehow six years in the making.  We were able to send the kids to Grandma’s and sneak off to Sundara (where robes are pretty much dress code) for some well needed r and r.  It’s crazy to look at and watch our own wedding photos and video, it really takes us back and allows us to also realize just how far we’ve come since that amazing day.  So if I could, one more time, have everyone raise their glass.  I’d like to pose a toast to my beautiful bride and thank her for all that she’s brought to me life, not just in the six years since we’ve said ‘I do,’ but in the all of the time we’ve known one another and been together ( which is nearly a decade now).  There’s no one I’d rather be writing this story with.  Love you. – Derrick

way back then…

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and now…