Somehow these pictures were on the very last file of the wedding I was editing today, and it was a very very nice surprise on this muggy, slow day, to stumble upon Steve smiling at me.   The last one is SO steve... kind, not at all serious, and so very handsome.

When I took these pictures of him we were on our way to a Lebanese restaurant where I had the very best gyros I have ever eaten.  Steve's parents had the kids for a few days.  While the kids were gone I shot a wedding and he was working on classes non stop but we took one evening to be with each other.  I think when life is crazy you relish the "down" time more.

Steve just emailed me from work and said to postpone dinner because we are taking the kids to the pool so I have to run and get us all ready.   The pool will only be open for twenty minutes by the time we get there so we are just jumping in swimming hard and then heading back home.

P.S.

I just bought twenty chairs on Craigs list and Steve picked them all up for me on his lunch break and somehow fit them in the van.  I am including the picture that was on craigs list to show you my "dream" chairs for our dining room table.

See we have had these very tall Amish-y chairs that need to have the seats redone, the weave was coming apart and parts of the..whatever it is called..(it looks like twisted straw) was hanging down like dreadlocks under the chair. If guests were coming I would give the dreads a haircut.   Every once in a while I would price chairs but they are SO expensive.  Whenever I went to a used furniture store they only had traditional wooden chairs.  So I prayed and waited and God gave me the perfect, modern, exact color of my downstairs, retro- better than I could have dreamed set of chairs.  They look plastic but they are strong wood.

I need to take my own photos of the chair, but this will have to do because I want to get the post up.

I suspect that half of you will think the chair is ugly and not understand why my heart is so happy, but the style  is so me.  My table is a very old, heavy school table that I stripped and stained  dark almost black, I wish I could invite you all over and have a little show and tell.