The husband’s birthday was earlier this week. We had some friends in town last weekend, so we had a quiet celebration with a few close friends since he insists that he is now too old to have a birthday party.

You know how you look through your baby pictures and see photos of these young people who kind of resemble your parents? And it’s hard to connect the people you see in the pictures with your now aging parents and you think wow, was there really a time when my parents were this young? Well, that’s what this photo will probably be for S – a memento of an unimaginable time that only exists in photos – a time when her dad was young, handsome and still pretty fit.

Luckily for him, I will always see him as the wonderful, crazy, hilarious, stubborn, maddening, 27-year-old guy I fell in love with.