Annual Sports Banquet 8 years later

Every year Nathan's school athletic department will have a sports banquet to honor all of the sports, athletes and coaches that have participated in sports for the school that year. Nathan has been a coach for 8 years and this was our 8th year to go to a sports banquet together. Our first year we were in Uvalde and had just started dating and I felt like I barely knew Nathan but I was already so in love with him. He came to pick me up at my parents house wearing a nice suite and I was dressed up. We were both so nervous because this was the first time we would have really stepped out as a couple. Of course my mom had the camera ready and had to take pictures of us jr. high kids going on our first date ( that is what it felt like) I am so thankful I still have that picture up in my house and honestly can not believe it has been 8 years. After the 1st sports banquet together we went to get ice cream at Dairy Queen and have continued that tradition every year. Where we are now they have a sports picnic instead of a banquet which is so much nicer and relaxed. Last year we went and had just found out a few months earlier that we were expecting. There were so many new babies there and I was praying so hard that God would allow us to have a baby at next years sports picnic. Sure enough God gave us what we asked. It was so fun getting to go this year and show Waylon off. Everyone was very impressed with his soccer t-shirt and shoes, which makes me so proud. He did such a great job watching all the kids and sitting through every coaches speech. Nathan gave a great speech saying something very special about each one of his awarded players. He also thanked me for being a supportive wife during this tough soccer season ( Waylon and I did not miss a game). It made me cry which I hate doing esp in public but it was so very special for him to annoucne his appreciation for me in front of hundreds of people. Waylon and I are so proud of him and honored to be his family. Nathan is still just as handsome as he was on that first date and I have grown more and more in love with him every year. He is a wonderful coach and a huge influence of the kids lives that he gets to impact. I am so lucky to be with this man. Afterward we went to DQ to get ice cream (raspberry truffle blizzard will change your life) and talked about how much fun next year will be when we are having to chase Waylon around the park and wipe ice cream off his face afterward...
The picture if from the very first sports banquet. Really wish I had one from every year and esp this year but we were running late...