Since we started dating 09.29.04, we’ve traveled a bit so I thought I’d share some snapshots of us at those places!
Our very first photo together back when we were just friends! Harding University, August 2004
Harding University – Spring 2005
Daytona Beach, FL – Spring Break 2005
Holly Springs, FL – Spring Break 2005
Ormond Beach, FL – Spring Break 2005
Chenoa, IL – May 2005 (We also spent time in Memphis, TN, Austin, TX and Dallas, TX on this 2 week trip, but didn’t take photos of us)
Hoxie, AR – Fall 2005 (with our first kitten who we named “Xing An” – Precious)
Gulf Shores, AL – Christmas 2005
New York, NY – Spring Break 2006
Syracuse, NY – Spring Break 2006
Dauphin Island, AL – Thanksgiving 2007
Perdido Beach, AL – Spring 2008
Buffalo Gap, TX – Spring Break 2008 (We also spent time in Abilene, Tuscaloosa, Dallas, and Plano, but didn’t take pictures of us)
Spanish Fort, AL – Summer 2008
Our Wedding Day. Harding University, August 2008
Orange Beach, AL – Christmas 2008
Our vow renewal at the Cathedral Basilica in St Louis. August 2009
One Year Anniversary Photos in Memphis, TN. August 2009
Bloomington/Normal, Illinois – Thanksgiving 2009
Gridley, IL – Thanksgiving 2009
Spring 2010 – Wynne, AR (Sadly this is the only photo I got of the two of us from the Spring Retreat this year and for some reason it was all the way zoomed in, haha!)
Us outside our very first house after 3 months of renovating it! Summer 2010
Just after our 2nd vow renewal in New Orleans, LA – August 2010
Southaven, MS – September 2010
Hot Springs, AR – Labor Day 2010
Fort Morgan, AL – Thanksgiving 2010
Collierville, TN – Christmas 2010
Town Creek, AL – New Years Eve 2010
Holly Springs, MS – February 2011
Bartlett, TN – March 2011
Tuscaloosa, AL – A Day 2011
Florence, AL – May 2011
Scotia, AR – Memorial Weekend 2011
Paris, AR – Memorial Weekend 2011
Fort Smith, AR - Memorial Weekend 2011
Springfield, MO – July 2011
Branson, MO – July 2011
Forsyth, MO - July 2011
Heber Springs, AR – July 2011
Oxford, MS – August 2011
Cozumel, Mexico – August 2011
Progreso, Yukatan, Mexico – August 2011
Floating on the Gulf of Mexico – August 2011
Mobile, AL – August 2011
Oakland, TN – September 2011
Texarkana, Tx – October 2011 (this was a stop on our way home from visiting Dallas, McKinney, Plano and Euless – we forgot to get pictures of us in all those places, haha!)
Chicago, IL – December 2011



















Adorable! Love all the jumping photos!
Thanks! We have fun taking them!
How sweet to renew your vows every year! We plan to do that every 10 years!
Aww, that will be so great! I really love the renewal for many reasons, but just hearing the words of our covenant spoken again is so wonderful after spending the year living it out every day. Love it!
OHHHHH my gosh I am in love with this blog already!!! Ahhh you are so beautiful!!! and i love how upbeat and positive you are!!! Sooo sweet. You and your hubby are adorable and the love radiates off of these pics!
Awww you are so sweet! Thanks so much for the sweet compliments! I am absolutely in love with your blog too so I think we are going to get along GREAT!
LOVE the pics – my husband and I just celebrated 14 years this past September and I am loving the yearly renewal of vows that you do – awesome!
Congratulations on 14 years! That’s incredible!
You guys are the cutest ever! You just look like the bestest of friends!
SMALL world aye? My sister goes to Harding University in Arkansas and I am going there in a year and a half!!!!
Oh my goodness, YES SMALL WORLD!
So I actually wrote a big long post about all of this and then realized that I probably didn’t want that many details floating around in the blogosphere, haha. So I’m gonna email you instead!
You all are hilarious! Love all your photos. Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Haha, we do what we can.
You’ve been a lot of places together! But now I feel like we have even more in common! We have also been to Ormond Beach (May 2008) and loved it there! Also – you guys started officially dating on my 18th birthday!! This is a great idea….would you hate me if I borrowed the idea from you for my blog? If yes, I will just do it on a personal level! BTW – I love jumping photos!!
YAY for having things in common! I love it!
You can be pleased to know that on your birthday every year, we go out and celebrate! Granted, it’s to celebrate our dating anniversary, but still! What a great day that was and still is!
Please feel free to take the idea! I’d love to see all the fun places you guys have been!
you two are simply adorable! i’ve wanted to travel for awhile now! all of your adventures together make me super jealous!
xo.
Aww thanks sweet girl! And you can so have adventures too! Just take a bestie along and have a road trip!
Love this documentation of your travels. I clicked over today from Loved Like the Church’s Saturday Stumbles post. You two are super cute! I’m looking forward to exploring your blog more, but I’ve already found a few things we have in common–we both went to Florida for our honeymoons, we both love to cook, and we both have husbands who decided to grow beards this winter!
Aww we do have a lot in common, then! I’m definitely going to check out your blog right now!
THIS IS SUCH A GREAAAAT IDEA!
Thanks for visiting my Blog girlie, looking forward to reading more about you and your life
I love your enthusiasm! You make me smile!
Love all of your pictures!! You two are adorable, and look so happy together. Looks like you’ve spent some time in AR– that’s where my boyfriend is from (Russellville)! Also, I’m curious about your vow renewals… do y’all do them every year?!
We have spent some time in AR – that’s where we met (at college when I was a wee freshman and he was a might sophomore, haha).
And yuppers, we renew our vows every year. It’s never a big thing – just the two of us, a pretty back drop and our vows. We’ll probably do a big vow renewal for one of the big anniversaries down the road (10 or 25 years or something). We wrote our own vows so they are specific to us and it’s just so cool to remind ourselves of our covenant after having spent the year living it out.
omg, all those jumping pictures are adorable
Thanks! We like to think so.
WOW! You have been to Normal, IL??? That is where I live. I was shocked when I saw that you have been to Bloomington Normal. Can I ask what you were doing here??
Small world! My husband is from Chenoa, IL so when we got visit his family up there we always spend some time in Bloomington/Normal area as well.
Let me know when you come to the area next time and will HAVE to meet in the real world!
Definitely! We usually try to go up that way at least once a year so hopefully sometime this year we can work that out!
So now I seem like a complete stalker, but I just looked through all of these and you seem like an incredibly fun couple!
Haha! You’re not stalking if I put it up for everyone to see! No worries.
And I mean… we think we’re pretty fun…
Too cute, love the jumping pictures! And I think that’s great that you renew your vows every year. I think at our 10 year, my husband and I want to do that. Except we’ll have a big party too.
That’ll be so cool! We’ve talked about doing that for our 10 year as well!
Thanks for stopping by! You are such a sweetheart. I live in Mobile, so you’ve been all around my stomping ground!
My sister’s family lives in Mobile and my parents live in Spanish Fort so we’re in that area pretty frequently. Not to mention, we LOVE the beach and it’s the closest beach to us. Love that area!
You two are ADORABLE. I found you through a favorite blog of mine (Twisted365). Hope you don’t mind as I tag along for the ride.
Yay! I’m so glad!
I want to see you jumping outside of the U.S! Come over to Europe, loads to see and do. You could visit your husband’s Italian roots
It is definitely on the to-do list! We have some student debt to pay off first, though.
Me too. It never seems to end!
How funny, I was looking at your blog and had no idea you were in Arkansas until I saw these pictures. My wife, who’s Italian by marriage thanks to me, and I live in Sherwood.
My great-grandmother used to live in Sherwood.
We’re actually in TN now, but we went to college at Harding which is why there are so many AR pictures.
Wow. You guys have travelled a lot. Awesome…
We sure enjoy it!
i love this, you two are the cutest. my favourite thing is your love for jumping all over the place… honestly, cant wait to see the cute little babies you two will make
xxx
Aww, you are so sweet, girl! We are a bit ridiculous with the jumping everywhere, but it’s just so much fun!
nice site, do you put the camera on self-timer or get passers by to take the jumping pictures?
Like the house. Very pleasant.
A little of both. Normally we try to find a spot to set up the camera and use the self timer, but frequently passersby ask if they can take the photo for us (usually when the camera is balanced precariously on a ledge, haha!) so we always let them.
Looks like fun!!
We sure think so!
I just found your page and love it! I’m actually from Jackson, TN, but go to Rhodes in Memphis! My brother also goes to Harding Pharmacy. And I’m dating an Italian! We have so much in common, crazy!
Oh wow! We do have a lot in common! I’m emailing you right now!
Ah these are awesome! I kind of want to steal your idea and make a “where we’ve been” page… can i have your permission? I’m with the rest of these folks – absolutely LOVE the jumping pictures and the fact that you renew your vows every year!! My husband and I currently live in the Quad Cities Area (illinois) so you’re not too far during your bloomington/normal stops!! Keep posting pictures!!
Yes! You can definitely have this idea! I’d love to see you guys’ “where you’ve been” page too! And thanks for the reminder to keep posting pictures – I need to update this page!
Wow Rach, you two have been so many places!
And you two look so connected and happy in the pictures – it is so obvious that you belong together:)
Aww, you are so sweet! We definitely feel like we’re a pretty good match, but then I think we’re biased
I’m just not sure if two people could possibly be cuter! Love your blog, Rachel and love all the fun pictures. Just subscribed so I won’t miss new posts.
And your house looks AMAZING! Love red front doors!
Aww you are so sweet, Michelle! So glad to have “met” you!
And thanks! We love the red door too! It’s one of my favorites!
I’m so glad I found your blog! You’re delightful!
Haha! Well thanks!
Bon Voyage, u lovely couple!
Thanks!
There sure are a lot of MS places on that list!! Meet up in the future FOR SURE!!
Absolutely!
Hey Rach, I hope u don’t mind, I kinda “copied” this page idea to my Blog cause it’s just great, and I love your two pictures.. I love your personality.. haha I think I’m kinda obsessed in you already, in your positive energy and beauty all the way… Would be honored to know you as a person! Maybe one day, God knows
I don’t mind one bit! And thanks for your sweet words! I’d love to meet you in person some day too!
Aw!! You’ve had such a beautiful relationship!! Can’t wait to see more adventures!! Where’s next??
That’s a great question! We have a couple of trips already in mind for the late summer/fall, but so far they are all places we’ve already been, haha! Not sure where the next new place will be!
You are all over the East Coast! Looks like so much fun!!! I am dying to travel down the east coast asap!
My family moved there while I was in college so we visit down that way LOTS!
we go to orange beach/perdido every year! in fact, that’s where i just got back from. wouldn’t that be weird if we had run into each other in the past and just didn’t know!
looks like you guys have a lot of fun on your travels!
Haha! That would be so random! My family lives down on the gulf so as you can see, we are all over the place down there!