THE FIRST PHOTO.

FIRST CAPE MAY TRIP! Look closely, can you see girls in the back of this photo? We loved them so much we bought the same pink sweater they are all wearing shortly after taking this photo.

First Sarah birthday celebration! If you look closely you can see Michelle realizing that Sarah has MANY more friends than her.

We went to Vegas primarily to attend Katy Perry's residency, and while we were there we stopped by this ghost town. This was the chapel where we pretended to get married but kind of both weren't pretending? If you look really closely maybe you can see a ghost!

First photo abroad together! If you look closely, you can see the jet lag oozing out of us!!!!

Paris! This baguette was from a bakery called "Aux Désirs de Manon" which we THOUGHT translated to "The Desire to Moan", and that cracked us up. In writing this blurb, we learned that Manon is a woman's name so this actually translates to something like Manon's Desires... Also Michelle said "bonne nuit" to a cab driver in Paris and he kind of chuckled. We later learned that is more something you would say in a private or personal context, like to someone you live with, rather than a stranger. And you usually say it right before sleeping. But whatever! After he laughed he said it back! Anyway, if you look closely you can see that Michelle is in the throes of a head cold!

SECOND CAPE MAY TRIP! If you look closely you can see that we are both unbelievably happy!

Family photo! Would you believe that the first year or so that Sarah and Michelle were together, Sarah didn't really care for Phoebe??? And now every night Sarah engages in a psychotic cycle where she insists she has to snuggle Phoebe before going to sleep, then she falls asleep mid-snuggle, wakes up, starts snuggling her again, and the cycle repeats. Left unchecked this can go on for hours! If you look closely in this photo, you can see that Phoebe is the cutest, sweetest little angel to ever walk the planet.

Us dancing at Michelle's friend Evie's wedding! Michelle never really had fun at weddings because she is super self conscious and she is not a talented dancer, but if you look closely you can see all of that melting away because she had the world's greatest dance partner. This was the first of many weddings we had a blast dancing the night away together.

Third Cape May Trip! If you look closely you can find that this "look closely" joke is getting a bit tired!

First annual halloween/joint birthday party!

First proper family photo! Ok we're done doing the look closely joke BUT if you do look closely here you can see that Phoebe is an absolute princess who is perfect in every single way!

Berlin! If you look...closely... you can see the grounds of this palace were pretty much empty even though it was a beautiful day. We were in awe. We took our daily nap here and it was bliss. On this trip, we met up with Michelle's family in Poland, and her dad showed us around Gliwice, the city where he grew up. There, we enjoyed unlimited pierogies from his childhood friend, whom we ran into, and later accidentally wandered into a cat café. It was truly special.

CAPE MAY #4 BABY! This is when we got engaged! Even though Michelle's tolerance for sappy relationship stuff is very low, we managed to have a really special moment on our favorite beach. We each prepared some words and shared them with each other. A tear may have been shed! We then finally exchanged the rings we had been jointly carrying around for days in a panic, terrified we would lose them.