There is a beautiful story being crafted in Hawaii. The author, Alex, has been so kind to share with us.

We all have that question: What should we do with all our old wedding cards and bits and pieces? Don’t just keep them in a shoebox under the bed! Alex put them all in her “Love Fills a Lifetime” wedding card journal at Gadanke, crafting such a beautiful love story.

She divided her book into three brilliant sections:

1. Engagement
2. Our Wedding
3. Life After ‘I Do’

She wrote about how she and her main man, Matt, met and how he proposed. She tucked in swatches of fabric, business cards, and their Save the Date.

Matt joined in the project, too. He wrote about what it was like seeing Alex walk down the aisle. It’s so beautiful!

Their “Love Fills a Lifetime” journal is such an inspiring piece. Thank you for sharing your love story with us, Alex and Matt!

Go peek in more of their Gadanke journal over here. Then come tell us:

What do you love about this book? Any takeaways that you could incorporate into your storykeeping?

I have a good friend who adores horses and rides them almost daily. She cannot grasp my love for hiking in Montana. “Why not just take a horse?” she asks. “It’s faster.”

I do not tell her about the last time I rode a horse (above). It was a cold, beautiful day; my horse was fantastic.

But afterward? I was motion sick. I curled up on the floor, embracing the lack of bumpity bump of a horse’s back.

Confessions of a Cowgirl #2:

You do not make a good cowgirl if you get horse sick.

More cowgirl confessions: #1.

We’re getting ready to climb in a little Cessna airplane. Would you like to go flying with Martin and me?

Look straight ahead and say hello to flying over the tips some lower mountains and goodbye to mountain snow. We’re going to see if we can get a little lift and pop our plane higher into the sky. Hang on!

Whoosh!

I love doing that! You often see see birds soaring through these thermals in the spring and summer, too. It’s an easy and exhilarating way to get higher without exerting extra.

Now that we’ve got some altitude, let’s go look around some of the neighboring valleys.

If all the snow has left the mountains, where has it gone?

Hello to swelling, muddy rivers.

Hello to florescent, irrigated crops and lawns. Hello to earth in its natural, unirrigated state around here: brown.

And goodbye to all worry when we are in the sky. Martin and I cannot wait to take you up again.

What else did you see?