Bet you couldn’t guess how long Mark and I have known each other. It’s our 7th wedding anniversary today, but we’ve been together, more or less, for the last 17 years. Talk about things that make you feel old. Mark was actually the first person that I came across when I moved from NYC to Olympia, Washington on January 2, 1992. After 3 years of art school at the Cooper Union, I called it quits and transferred out to a little school called the Evergreen State College the day after New Years Day in 1992. I had never even set foot in Washington before, but here I was, in a new place and I didn’t know a soul. Campus was completely empty because it was still winter break so the first day was spent alone, wandering around wondering where the hell I was, until I went to the school deli and saw some tall guy with long hair who was working there. I think I bought a sandwich from him. A week later, I saw him in my music/performance classes. After 3 more years of school, graduation, a 2 year move to Portland, 3 houses, a move to NYC (where HE moved without setting foot in NYC since he was 8), 4 apartments, 2 boroughs, grad school, a wedding, 2 kids, and 1 business later, here we are.
I was going through some photos and realized that there aren’t many of us together (found another one!). I’m always the one behind the camera, but here are a few from past years (Mark is gonna kill me for putting up the first one, but hey, it was the early 90s, Seattle grunge blah blah, what did you expect us to look like?)
1992
1996
1999
2004
The last decent family photo, 2008
Happy anniversary! take more pictures and cherish the moments. Can you believe how time flies?
You have a beautiful family – happy anniversary – I love reading your blog!!
Awesome pics!
your family is incredibly beautiful
Wishing you many happy healthy returns of the day…
Fun to see the changes over the years!
I’m tearing up. This is so sweet and I don’t even know you.
happy anniversary and congrats on your 17 yrs of courtship!! sounds like your meeting was destiny. you have such a beautiful family!
What a sweet post. It’s funny, I met my husband in 1994 and we were just talking about how it can’t be possible that that was 15 years ago. How can we be that old? I really love the 1992 picture. Pictures from that time are the best. We all thought we looked so cool then. That is a lovely family photo too. Happy Anniversary!
You looked absolutely stunning at your wedding and look so happy together. What a beautiful family you have made. Congratulations and here’s to many more!
Nice Flannel!
aw. this made me teary eyed. 17 years! wow.
1992 photo is totally awesome. 🙂
happy anniversary!
xo
love the photo timeline!
Happy Anniversary and that is a beautiful family photo. Mia looks so much like Mark!
awwww…how beautiful! congrats and here’s too many more years together! 🙂
Happy Anniversary! I just celebrated my first wedding anniversary and hope to be able to share as sweet a story and photo timeline as you’ve shared here. You have such a beautiful family – congratulations on your anniversary, and best wishes for many, many more!
congratulations! what a cute pair that has become a beautiful couple! (p.s. i also like mia’s long hair!)
Happy Anniversary!!!! I celebrated my 7th anniversary last week too. What a beautiful family you are!!!!
AWWWW!!! This is such a sweet post. It made me smile. Congratulations on 17 years 😀
Congratulations! That is so sweet and touching to see this through you two. 🙂
Happy Anniversary! As always, your photos are incredible. Such a beautiful family photo and I especially love the Seattle grunge! I met my hubby in 1990 (blind date–who knew?). Fast forward 7 yrs, we married and will soon celebrate a total of almost 20 yrs together….oh. my. god. It’s crazy, I look at your photos from the 90’s and think to myself, it’s no SO long ago.. and then it hits me how far back it actually IS! Wow- time does seriously fly. Wishing you guys many happy moments ahead! 🙂
I just love your photos. I happened upon your website and love your photos–did I already say that?? I am in the process of having my website “created” and refer all photographers to your site when I need examples of what I want. (Sorry, I live too far away to hire you.) Nice, clean, simple–just what I want. Girls are adorable too!
Happy anniversary, Jenna! You and Mark have created such a lovely life and family, thank you for sharing with us. You guys are such an inspiration.
Wow! Time is flying. Congratulations on your anniversary. I remember the first time I saw you, from a distance, near Ralph’s. I thought, “This is the girl.” As in THE girl. I somehow knew. Thanks so much for the photo timeline.
Happy anniversary! I also met my partner of 14 years at Evergreen. 🙂 I hope you have many happy years to come…..
Congratulations on your anniversary. I LOVE reading your blog. Both you & your husband are an inspiration to me and I wish you two all the best. You guys have a beautiful family. Thank you for sharing your story & pics. 🙂
Hi, this got me out of my lurking phase.
Gosh, you make me hopeful.
Congrats on your anniversary!
This post was wonderful!
That is such a long time to know someone! I always joke that Chris and I have really already been married 5 years. We’ve been engaged for 2 of them LOL. Those are great pictures.
Like you said you don’t have alot of you guys together, same here.
many happy returns ^_^
the man officiating your wedding looks like a deadringer for my grandfather. beautiful blog. thanks.
As a child of divorce, I really admire couples who have been together for a long time, and it’s what I aspire to, so congratulations on your anniversary. I hope in 2023 I can look back and say the same thing.
I loved this post and all the pictures – thanks so much for sharing! It’s so neat to see that you guys have gone through so much together, and to see how both have you have changed over the years. Beautiful.
What an incredibly moving post. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Your family is beautiful, so real.
Great photos! Thank you so much for sharing them. Congratulations to you and Mark.
I too was a lurker, but this post really made me smile. Many many blessings to you and your wonderful family 🙂
happy anniversary! i just love that 1992 photo! so much youth!
Congratulations! You guys are a beautiful couple in so many ways. 🙂
What a gorgeous family! Love all the photos but especially that last one. And thanks for the reminder to take more photos with my sweetie. 😉
Beautiful family picture
beautiful family. congrats! 🙂
What a lovely retrospect of a very lovely family. 🙂
I am totally weepy!!! What a beautiful story, photos…. thank you for sharing this part of your life.
Happy belated anniversary. I loved the trip through your timeline.
Congratulations lovely photos
lovely. add me to your list of fans/kindred spirits. there’s so much familiar here. love that last decent family portrait. real.
so sweet jenna.
congratulations.
wow! congratulations! beautiful post!! great photos!
Beautiful photos, congrats on being together for so long! That is not easy to do. I also had a short stint in Olympia, WA for a year of study at Evergreen. I love that you met your hubby there!
Your pictures made me tear up. I love seeing happy couples. I guess because they are so rare.
beautiful couple!! what a lovely post!