See the photo below?  That’s an arial shot of our log house in Utah.  We lived there for seven years, longer than I had lived in ANY ONE HOME in my ENTIRE (nearly 45 years of) life.  JD built the smaller structure with the blue roof (upper right in the photo), a barn and garage.  It was a two-story building, much larger than it appears from above.  We could park two SUV’s in there, and JD used the upper story for a woodwork shop (and perhaps an eensy, weensy bit of storage for me).  Three of my babies have their little handprints in the concrete in the front left corner of that garage. 

JD began building that garage in 1999, and when we sold the house and property in 2006, it was not finished.  That’s called HIS Construction Therapy.

And this?  Although it didn’t nearly take me seven years {it’s ok to guffaw here}, it’s HER Quilt Therapy:

And this?

This is the beginning of the culmination of our Construction & Quilt Therapy…our engagement photo, taken in 1992 – just before we were married on May 16, 1992.

And I return to my original statement because where I lived has a direct correlation to who I’ve lived with…I have been with my husband longer than I lived with ANY ONE PERSON in my family, EVER.  I have known my brothers my whole life, but I only lived with them for a short time during my youth. 

Two of a kind, working on a full house!  Happy 17th Anniversary to us!