a year already

March 7th 2010, a year ago Jachen and i met! a whole year ago. what a glorious day that was. well really the day in itself wasn't especially glorious. we met that day in a casual and positive meeting which turned into a friendship which turned into dating which turned into us being engaged and presently on a small countdown to getting married. it has been a great year with jachen. we had some beautiful, but fast weeks together in switzerland before i left, a great month in the summer when he came to visit here in the US, a lovely two weeks in october when i flew to him when he proposed, a week surprise for christmas and all the many skype calls, gchats, texts and emails in between. when we met a year ago, my only thoughts were that he was cute, fun and that he would make a great swiss friend. little did either of us know what would follow. neither of us expected to marry a foreigner. it still is very surreal to be engaged. it feels very surreal that i have found the most amazing man and perfect match for me. he really is. i am more and more in love with him each day. when i went to switzerland in october we took our engagement pictures...and i really mean "we" took them. i set up a tripod and he stood in front of the camera while i set it up and focused the camera everytime and then i would push the timer and run into the shot. haha. it was tricky business. jachen was cold, we only had a little mound to stand on, i could only take horizontals and i was feeling opposite of my inspired self. but it turned out to be a pretty good success. below are some of our favorites. the top picture, our favorite, is what we sent out in our wedding announcements. we are so ready to not only be together again, but for being married.