the first of many.

this picture is one of my favorites.

it's not recent, in fact it was taken on 12/28/04.

it was the first picture of me and my then new "friend" (i think the word boyfriend needs to be banned from your vocabulary after age 27 or so)

we had gone on our first date just two weeks or so prior and were spending every available minute together exploring what we both felt was something amazing that we happening to us.

earlier that day i had told Dan there was something cool i wanted to show him so we went for a drive and ended up here - Good Harbor Beach.

it's not a beach with lifeguards, kids with sand buckets, lots of people with lawnchairs and coolers, or concession stands.

it's a beach where you rarely see more than two or three other people, there are very cool rocks and drift wood, you won't come upon it unless you already know it's there, and you can walk along beautiful Lake Michigan for miles.

it was here that we took the first of many many self photos of our adventures together.

i have this photo on my nightstand and everytime i look at it i smile because that time in our lives was magical.

six weeks later we were engaged to be married on this same beach.....but that's a post for another day.

wishing you magical moments of your own.

Kendra

PS - a couple of you have inquired about a photo of the sassy new haircut. I'll work on it. :)