on april 11, 2004, after a couple of lunch dates, a little bit of flirtation, and a lot of email josh and i went to inglewood in calgary. we ate at the harley diner and bought some records at recordland and wandered around finding photos for one of my photography assignments. we held hands for the first time and snuggled on his couch later that night watching the flames play game 3 of the play-offs against vancouver (weird), the first play-offs they’d been in for 8 years. we kissed our first kiss when i was leaving his house that night and unofficially and unspokenly became a couple. a week later we were hanging out with kim and ed when ed asked us “so, what exactly are you guys?” to which i responded (due to the unspoken-ness of the previous week’s decision), “we’re… undefined.” this prompted josh to bring up the unspoken-ness later that night and we officially defined our relationship. boyfriend and girlfriend.
5 years later and we’ve been living together for over 4 years. we moved out of my apartment into a little house. a year after that we moved out of the little house and left calgary for vancouver. we love it here. we love each other. we’ve had amazing ups and major downs. but 5 years and a lot of happenings later, we’re still together and intend to keep it that way.
to celebrate, we spent about 4 hours with miranda and reilly yesterday getting our photo taken. i stole the idea from our friends chris and monica who did the same thing for their 5 years of un-wedded togtherness ealier this year and i thought it was genius. we have a fairly decent amount of “coupley” photos that have been taken of us over the years, but these will be different. reilly and miranda take absolutely amazing photos of their couples and i’m so excited that we got to join their ranks and have our own batch of photos that demonstrate how we feel about each other. and they absolutely suit us. we first went up to whytecliff park and played around on the rocks and in the trees there, being in nature in one of our absolute favourite spots in vancouver. we then headed back to the city to get some urban shots in this absolute genius area with amazing grafitti and empty train cars and amazing light. it was an awesome experience and i’m so happy that josh was receptive to the idea when i first brought it up. i can’t wait to see the photos and i’m so glad m&r were willing to give up one of their rare free afternoons for us.
we don’t have anything special planned for today, but that’s okay. in addition to the photoing of yesterday, we’ll also be heading out to the island next weekend to go snowboarding at mt. washington and just spend a couple days together away from everything at home, which will be awesome.
i’m extremely proud of us and our 5 years. i love josh and he loves me and we’re happy. go us!
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