love letters

our friend Seth Lucas did his BFA project on objects that show our love and asked if he could include us and all the letters we wrote to each other as missionaries. we were apart for 30 months and wrote a letter to each other every day (but mailed them every week so we would get like 12 page letters from each other every week) we actually threw our mission letters away after these pics were taken... we didn't have room in our new place for 2 huge garbage bags and the letters were really.... personal :) we didn't really want anyone to find them and read them! but, these pictures by Maddy Lucas are the PERFECT way to keep the letters alive :)

(this one is my favorite)

update!

i know everyone cannot believe we threw the letters away! it is kind of sad but i'm totally OK with it and hope i always will be. :) We had a few reasons:
- we wrote some really personal stuff in our letters and we wouldn't want just anyone (i mean... we wouldn't want ANYONE) reading them :)
- we moved from a 3 bedroom house to a 1 bedroom + den (daph's room) apartment and literally had NO room for them. Our storage room on our porch is filled to the brim with furniture that can't fit in this place and baby stuff that we don't want to have to buy again when we have another baby.
- we always want to live in a small place. no more than 1000 SF, probably more like 600-800. we have lots of reasons for this too but because of this, we have to edit everything! we got rid of a lot of things we didn't absolutely LOVE from our old house when we moved here. things that just took up space or preformed a function but that we didn't love. i think its awesome to be surrounded by only stuff you love- not just STUFF that fills up your house. that means your house is too big :) after downsizing by a few hundred feet i'm ready to go even smaller. i love living small.