I Do - All Over Again!!!

Josh & I renewed our wedding vows 

after 15 wonderful years of marriage

We are so thankful for our marriage and in a world where marriages are falling apart we wanted to celebrate our 15th anniversary.  It was the best day ever!  I could not have asked for more (ok, a little warmer would have been nice).  If you know me you know that I am now a bit sad it is all done.  I want to cherish it all.  Yes, I wore my wedding dress!  How fun to be able to still fit in it and to feel so beautiful.  Our whole family looked great.  The girls wore purple (color in our wedding) dresses we had made in Uganda.  We rented the pavilion at Spring Grove Park and it was everything I hoped for the second time around - simple yet beautiful.  Our family and a few friends joined us on our special day.  Our guests had appetizers as they arrived and we took some pictures.  Lydia opened in prayer and Grace read a verse, said how thankful she was for us and prayed.  Josh and I then welcomed everyone and said our vows to each other.  To sum them up, we know that when Christ is the center of our lives and then our marriage we are blessed the way God intended marriage to be.  When we follow Christ example of selfless love marriage is a blessing.  After our vows we washed each others feet as we did 15 years ago.  It is a beautiful symbol of selfless service to one another.  Then we had our family and friends circle around us, like they did at our wedding, and pray for us.  Josh's Dad opened the prayer and my Dad ended it.  The whole thing was meaningful and honored God - we are so thankful for His gift of marriage!  We all enjoyed a Mexican meal and wedding cake - which Josh and I did cut and feed to each other.  After the meal we tried to celebrate with a dance party however the speakers weren't loud enough, but we still had fun.  And now that it is over I want to do it all over again!  It was wonderful!  I love my husband and our marriage.  What a way to celebrate 15 years together!