meet marcus and katie

we are marcus and katie.
this is our story. our life.

we have known eachother for almost 7 years now. we first met through mutual friends and our churches based out of philadelphia area. we got engaged on november 16, 2006 in the middle of a zambian village called kaombe. katie had been living there as a health teacher since january 2006. we had been praying all our lives for a husband and a wife like each other. we knew that we were meant to be married.

after over 2 years apart, on and off, with katie in africa and marcus in america, katie has finally returned from living and working in zambian villages. she moved to san diego 3 months ago (end of may 2008), to be with marcus. marcus moved out to san diego, from philadelphia, in october 2007 to work full-time with a uganda aid organization called "invisible children."

together, we are seeing their hearts weaved together in God's love. we are finally on the same continent. we are blessed beyond imagination to finally be together, share our lives, and ourselves with one another. in attempts to share and create, we are using this online journal to capture our feelings, explorations, adventures, and love. we are using it as a way to creatively express the beauty of our love to our friends, families, and remind ourselves. we hope it will become a sort of time capsule, to look back upon, and be reminded of how blessed we are. we hope that this journal somehow encourages you in whatever way you need to be encouraged: creatively, spiritually, relationally...

thank you for being a part of our lives. we are truly blessed.

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we will start the journal by posting a series of photos of marcus and katie taken on august 21, 2008. while sitting on the couch in marcus's house, katie snapped away. a bright white light colors the series of chronological snap shots. katie is still learning how to take photos, but after schooling herself according to marcus's photography books, she convinces herself that she will have the art down. (though it might be a while before she has time to devote to this art.) for now, marcus will have to be the photographer- he is much better at this. he even used to have his own dark room where he developed his own photos.




earlier in the day, we had some wonderful guests. marcus's parents arrived from philadelphia to spend the week with us in san diego. we took them to seaport village, a beautiful area on the sea in san diego, near hillcrest and little italy. we walked through a tiny coastal village, ate at a restaurant on the ocean, while watching sailboats pass by in a vast blue sea. we walked and walked, and came upon some old world war II memorials. we posed in a tribute to bob hope statue:




let us always have this much fun together.