anniversary #1

june 6, 2009 marked the completion of our FIRST year as husband and wife and our FIFTH year together! it has been a wonderful year and it just went by so fast. we celebrated with a delicious steak dinner from randy’s steakhouse in frisco. after dinner we went home, popped open the wine our good friend rachel nanney bottled for us for our wedding present (which was oh so good!) and watched our wedding video. we didn’t get our video until a week before our anniversary and i wanted to wait just one more week to make the occasion that much more special, so it was the VERY FIRST TIME we watched it. we cried. both of us! it was so wonderful to get to relive the most special day in our lives thus far…especially since we remember our wedding day as a blurry haze of events!




and because our vows were so important to me (i’m sure they were important to him too!) i want to share them with you!

i, julie, take you, stan, to be my wedded husband. with deepest joy i come into my new life with you. as you have pledged to me your life and love, so i too happily give you my life, and in confidence submit myself to your headship as to the Lord. just like the church in her relationship to Christ, so i will be to you stan, i will live first unto our God and then unto you, loving you, obeying you, caring for you and ever seeking to please you. God has prepared me for you and so i will strengthen, help and comfort, and encourage you. honoring God by His spirit through the word, i pledge to you my life as an obedient and faithful wife.



Oh, how often i fall short of this covenant i made! but everyday i strive to take one step closer to being the wife i know i’m meant to be and stan deserves. and i am so thankful i have a group of girls who isn’t afraid to call me out when they see that i’m not holding up my end of the covenant. true friendship is a gift from God and i am so blessed that i have found it in these girls!