this year has been incredibly full, with changes and plans and more changes. we have hit a new level of... well, awesome-ness. : )
1. in our natural habitat, a book store.
2. opening for our dear friend CHRIS KOZA at the anna lee.
3. our first show as the sparrow and the sky at the high noon.
4. from melissa's wedding.
5. from peter's wedding.
6. being goofballs.
7. singing and being all serious.
8. we got a real kick out of carson's head looking like a smiley face in his shadow.
9. the buffy tribute show.
10. my birthday party.
11. BOB FEST.
12. you get it, we like to sing together.
song: good ole willie singing "if you can touch her at all". one of our favorites to sing together.
four years. phew. this one was a rough one for both of us individually, but we made it. and all that hard work is paying off. after a year and a half of living with friends and in living rooms, today, we move into a new place together, just the two of us. it feels right.
2011 is the year we started singing and writing music together and i think that is what pulled us through. this is the year our band, the sparrow and the sky, was formed.
1. we spent new years in nashville.
2. singing on our porch.
3. at croakerfest.
4. getting tattoos from my brother.
5. a fancy dinner for community support network.
6. dancing in a dive bar.
7. our cover of "the weight" with our friends MAGES and owen on mandolin.
8. we played at a lot of open mics this year.
9. for our anniversary we sang together, it was our first time doing it in front of other people.
10. at brew fest.
11. at the circus.
12. ugly sweater christmas show with DANIEL AND THE LION AND PHOX.
year three. another full year of traveling, growing pains and making life better, together.
1. waiting on a subway in new york.
2. our first art opening called "ageless"
3. somewhere on the oregon coast.
4. being punks.
5. labor day.
6. devil's lake.
7. 4th of july at the demolition derby.
8. we love our bikes.
9. my birthday, at mickeys.
10. chicago.
11. our christmas card, with lady gaga's help.
12. up at the land, one of our favorite places to be.
i can not believe how much we jammed into year two. this one was really hard to edit out photos, there were too many good ones. this was the longest relationship carson and i had both been in before, so there was a lot of learning about trust and keeping your individual life sacred too.
year number two, you were really great.
1. i'm not sure what this is from, but we look happy.
2. on our way to see billy joel and elton john.
3. beartooth pass, wyoming.
4. camping.
5. carson's hometown in fairview, montana.
6. at harvest fest in geneva, minnesota.
7. we love the brewers.
8. in montana, being really serious about our love and junk.
9. milwaukee, visiting steve.
10. at a trampled by turtles show.
11. halloween. the mad hatter and leela.
12. christmas cards. i had red hair then?
song: "nobody else" by trampled by turtles. i originally had "the lengths" by the black keys, because that was a really important song but this was the year we officially became a little obsessed with trampled by turtles. we had both liked them before we met each other and had seen them perform together, but after we saw them outside at harvestfest and that was it, we were super fans.
to celebrate five years of carson and me, for the next five days i'll be posting a few photos from each year. this was emotionally quite the process, we've been through a lot and i know that gets said often, but i don't know how else to say it. i never knew love worked this way. when i look at him i see the first time we met, now and him as a handsome old man. i'm truly blessed.
so, me and carson. carson and me. year one.
1. we spent a good amount of time in portland together after i graduated. we were ready to move there. maybe someday...
2. carson and i spent a lot of time in minneapolis, it became our second home. i didn't realize how early into our relationship that we were already sharing sunglasses.
3. ah, 719 water street, in eau claire. carson jumped in the middle of our final roommate photo. this is the day we moved to madison together, the day our fathers met for the first time and the day before i started my job. we were crazy.
4. our shadows in eau claire.
5. we had a lot of after bars at my place with jess and jodi. i don't remember sleeping much those days.
6. carson came with me on a photoshoot for volume one.
7. in our first apartment together, on kendall street. i miss that place.
8. we fell in love with madison's east side rather quickly.
9. carson's parents bought us tickets to a badger game. it was awesome.
10. a kiss.
11. halloween.
12. new years eve.
song: chemicals collide by cloud cult always reminds me of falling in love with carson. i was really into cloud cult and didn't think he'd like them, but i put a song of theirs on the first mix i gave them and he liked it! (gotta love the early music stages)
stay tuned for more lovey-dovey anniversary posts.
