LADDventure

We Interrupt This Marriage to Bring You Parenthood

  photo credit: Gretchen Wakeman Photography

I'm over 2 months late with this post, and along with showering regularly and remembering my name, writing is starting to come back to me. Our 10th anniversary came and went April 15th, and as life would have it there was no time to write a beautiful blog post in reflection on ten years of marriage. We celebrated with some silver bracelets from Tiffany's and lunch. Part of me is sad we didn't get to go on an awesome trip or extravagantly celebrate this big milestone in our marriage, but the other part of me knows there is nothing more profound than having to find a babysitter for the first time to sneak in a day date because we're now parents!

10 years ago, on a beautiful Friday night I became Mrs. Ladd, and that has made all the difference. It's been a decade since we said we'd take it as it comes, but take it together. What a way to celebrate the day we became a family - by adding the rest of the members to the family.

photo credit: Tara Dunn Photography

8 Years Ago Today

Today is our 8th Anniversary.  We were together for 8 years before we got married, and we've been together 8 years since.  We already celebrated with a weekend trip to Cottonwood, which I will tell you all about later this week.  So today is just a fairly normal day, other than remembering this...

Happy Anniversary, Mr. Ladd!  Thank you for making me Mrs. Ladd on April 15, 2005.  Thank you for loving me more now than you did that day.  Thank you for doing this hard, beautiful, crazy adventure called life with me. Thank you for being my home, my family, my husband. 

Wedding Weekend

This was a wonderful long Wisconsin weekend. In a warm, golden, autumn breeze my youngest brother, David, married his middle school sweetheart Emily. (Just in time so I was not forced to take her in as a sister wife. That's how much I heart her.) In shades of yellow, gray, black, and white, they said 'I do'. I thought about all the people who love them gathered to watch their promise to love each other forever, and I was reminded of all the reasons I love the new Mr. and Mrs. Blascoe:

1. Their sense of humor - I'm talking make you laugh in any situation and fall out of your chair while doing it.

2. Their inspiring creativity and refusal to settle for ordinary

3. Their innocence and fresh perspective on life

4. Their maturity to listen and strive to understand other points of view

5. Their honest faith that asks 'why?', 'how?', and 'now what?'

6. Their encouraging love for each other that says, 'I see all of who you are and I like it.'

This professional friend took some amazing photos, but you'll have to settle for some of my amateur shots of the fabulous details...

Best wishes Emily and David......best wishes.