Family

For Thanksgiving, Tyler's family and my family came to Bellingham to celebrate the holiday and to meet each other. We had a great time visiting, eating, drinking, playing cards, staying up too late and waking too early.

Before our families showed up in town, Tyler and I decided to get an engagement ring for me. We went to the jewelers with my grandmother's old engagement ring, and had the stone placed in a new setting.

Now the whole week reminds of my ring — the joining of not just Tyler and I, but of both our families that have been our support systems for our entire lives. We're combining what is familiar to us, with something new.

And we couldn't be happier.