Happy Birthday Linda! July 25!

Hi! Welcome to my first blog. Today is my lovely wife Linda's Birthday! Terri offered me the use of her blog Theresa's Life to honor Linda but she also suggested I use my own. Linda has been encouraging me to blog since she started blogging. Apparently I like to tell really long stories. She has mentioned this to me at least once or twice a week for the past year. I am mostly just putting up some fun pictures for this first post.

This first picture is at Norrie Point off the Hudson River just before I proposed. Linda is quiet by nature but she speaks her mind. She is a very strong woman that I am lucky enough to be married to. She keeps all of us laughing at our house and is really fun to be around.

Our first picture after getting engaged. Linda has a wonderful smile and brightens the room when she is there. (Yes I know that is really sappy!)

In 1998 Linda ran the New York City Marathon. She trained for three months and finished the 26 mile run strong. Go Team Snoopy!

Linda in Ecuador with her cousins in 2001. She had a great time there with tons of family and went again back in 2002.

In 2001 we moved to Arizona. Linda was incredibly supportive of me getting my masters degree. She is always thinking of other people. This is her on the hiking trail in Sedona.

Linda loves taking pictures and blog about them. Her blog is these are the days . (If you are reading this you probably know that already.) She used to do a lot of scrapbooking and that has evolved into her blog. It was pretty hard to find pictures of just her because she has been the only one behind the camera for the last two years. But I just got my own camera so... watch out!

I was practicing with my new camera. This is Linda being silly.

This is Linda being serious.

But she is the real photagrapher in our home. Here are a few of my favorite pictures that she has taken of our sons. I don't think she has ever left the house without her camera. I tease her about this a lot but she really does get great pictures.

Connor at the park glowing with happiness.

Connor asleep. Linda has a knack for getting real life shots of the boys.

Me and Connor last summer. What are we looking at? Who knows... Linda has a great eye for good pictures.

A very excited Ian at the Fourth of July Parade in 2006.

Ian trotting off into the distance in Flagstaff.

Here is one lucky shot of Linda and Ian that I took in Houson TX while we where visiting Jesse and Tewlyn. There is that same awesome smile!

Linda is a wonderful person. A loving wife and mother. We have been together for fourteen years and married for almost nine. She is the anchor and heart of our family. Happy Birthday Linda!