Pictures

The other day, I finally picked up some pictures form or last trip together and pictures of the funeral flowers.  We had gone to Dubuque and Galena in October of last year in part as a small honeymoon and for my birthday.  We had seen the giant M outside of Platteville (climbing all 340 steps), went to the Mystique casino, spent the day in Galena, shopping and antiquing (10 antique stores over the whole weekend), went on a haunted Galena tour and also stopped at a pumpkin farm. The flowers, well I wanted a memory of those as well, as they were very nice and thoughtful. 

I currently have college picture frames of all of our trips, camping at outside of McGregor IA over July 4th weekend 2008, Mall of America and St. Paul 2010,  St. Francies Xavier Basicalla in Dyserville summer 2009, and our Dubuque trip last October.  I truly enjoyed those trips and wish there had been more and that I had taken more pictures.  I actually wish I had taken more pictures of us and Tim.  I have some, but I was often without my camera, so I missed a lot.

I have a few pictures of the two of us around the place, most notably our wedding picture (black and white) which our friend Julie took.  It is in the middle of the collage picture frames i described before.  I have a copy of it at work, but since my return to work, it has been in a drawer.  I can look at them here, as they are almost background, but the one at work always caught my eye, well which prior to his death, was by design.  I am sure someday I will be able to bring it back out again.

Our friends Dean and Tara and their sons, gave us a very nice photo album from Snapfish.  These were pictures that Tar took at the wedding.  My personal favorite of these is the bubble picture.  When Tim and I came downstairs at the church after the ceremony, we were greeted by bubbles.  the picture captures us both smiling and truly happy.  It is one of my most favorite pictures of not only Tim but of the both of us.  the wedding picture and the bubble picture will be the best reminders of that special day.

I have always enjoyed displaying pictures and have quite a few photo albums to prove this.  I may not have always enjoyed my picture being taken, and still don't but I did enjoy taking them  I finally broke down and bought a new digital camera this week.  Not that i didn't like my old one, but it was very slow and went through batteries like crazy.  I will be taking more pictures now, not wanting to miss important, or fun moments.  The more memories I can reflect on the better.  I will include the wedding picture here, and will have to work on getting the bubble picture.

I haven't looked at the wedding album as of late, as it has just been too hard.  I am sure as the wedding anniversary nears I will look at them again, and remember the beauty of that day and probably shed a few happy tears and a few sad tiers.  I will be grateful for the memories.