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The Next 10 Years

Last week I posted family pictures from the first 10 years of our marriage which began in 1989.  Here are the next ten years:  2000-2009.  Our pictures became a little less consistent as life got a little crazier.

2000, shortly after Susanna was born

2002 shortly before Talmage was born


2002 in the fall
2003, in the fall shortly we moved into our new house



2004 after Mindy was born
Fall, 2005.  This picture was the one I really wanted to work and it would have worked except for the wild grass we didn't notice in the front.  It was taken at Berchtesgaden at the Eagle's Nest.

So we took this picture in the fall of 2005 next to our church in Munich.


We came home from Germany and had our picture taken in fall, 2006, at Tibble Fork Reservoir in American Fork Canyon. This is a super cute picture of Susanna and Talmage.
This is the one that hung in our living room for a long time. Camille was born a year later so it got outdated pretty quickly.
The photographer for the preceding pictures was named Alisa, recommended by our SIL.  She ended up getting diagnosed with melanoma not long after and died after a long battle.  Her father talked about her in this excellent talk:   https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2016/04/and-there-shall-be-no-more-death?lang=eng

August, 2007, our first Nauvoo experience.

Fall 2008 in the Riverwoods.

Spring 2009 in front of the MTC when we were dropping off David.






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