Theodore & Elisha

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Our first photo as a couple!

Our first hike as a couple, with an EXCELLENT big hemlock tree!

The day Theo met Elisha's mother...after a morning trip to the ER because Elisha chopped her finger and fainted. Then Mary made Theo climb on the roof as a test.

Our first road trip together. It was December. In the temperate rainforest. It rained buckets. Theo almost lost fingers to a snowstorm. It was magical!

Elisha's first time on skis. Lots of falling...for each other!

Our second big road trip. Theo promised that California was cool. It was, but Elisha was worried about rattlesnakes.

A Glacier National Park adventure, on the way home from riding bikes across half the state of Michigan after catching Covid for the first time. Hot dang we keep a busy schedule!

Our one-year anniversary, complete with Gluten Free PIZZA!

Easter flowers and sun in 2022!

Moved to Yosemite for a summer. Backpacked in the High Country. Slid down rocks butt naked. Went hot springing. Ate leftover Aramark food. We chased many bears together!

Standing at 12,590 feet above sea level on the summit of Mount Conness. Rained so hard on the way down that we almost slept in a cave. It was not the first time we ended up hiding from rain in a cave that week.

Finishing off the summer of 2022 with a visit to some of the biggest trees on the planet!

Our beautiful cliche couple photo at a pumpkin farm in fall of 22'

Our second anniversary (yeah, all the stuff before this photo was just in two years, CRAZY!)

This is actually a couple's Halloween costume but to understand it you would have to known that mosses and ferns (Elisha) like to grow on Bigleaf Maple trees (Theo).

Get you someone who loves you so much they will go frozen lake kayaking with you! Diablo Lake in winter of 2023.

Our first international adventure in winter of 2023, except it was in New Zealand, so was it actually summer of 2023? Hemispheres are confusing.

It may seem like we only take photos on crazy nutball outdoor adventures, but that's not true! Sometimes we take normal couple photos with the Skagit Tulips!

Sometimes we even take PROFESSIONAL normal couple photos (but they are pretty much all outdoors too).

Reaching the summit of Mt. Ruby together in late summer of 2023 after living in her shadow for a year!

We basically hiked a LOT in the summer of 2023. And the other summers we dated. And the winters and springs and falls too...

Picking replacement blueberries after losing 40lbs of them to the Sourdough Fire...so much fridge food lost to the evacuation.

Escaping the smoke in Washington by backpacking in California fall of 2023!

Our 3rd anniversary, returning to Olympic Hot Springs (where Theo almost lost those fingers on the first road trip)!

Life being a beach in Carpinteria, CA in late summer of 2023

Making Apple Cider at Indralaya in fall of 2023!

We made KNIVES! (Theo forgot his close toed shoes. Elisha had assumed that he would have them because it was cold and rainy and he biked there. She was incorrect.)

Snoqualmie Falls and a low temperature of -3 degrees (Fahrenheit)! Winter of 2024

Taking the train to Michigan Christmas of 2023, visiting Elisha's family and celebrated her grandmas 80th birthday!

Sometimes, the woman you love shows up in disguise with a fake beard and persona, and if you are Theo you don't even recognize them (until moments before this photo was taken).

Sandhill Crane Festival, spring of 2024 (its the bird kind of crane, not the construction kind)

Backpacking in Yosemite June 2024

POV, you are a blueberry on a particularly tall bush. JK, this is from backpacking in Yosemite during our jobless times in fall of 2023.

Backpacking in Yosemite June of 2024

Backpacking in Yosemite for Theos 25th birthday! June 2024!

Staying Mt Rainier at Mowich Lake, hiked up to the fire tower summer 2024

Elisha taught Ethnobotany at mt Baker, and Theo tagged along taking copious notes!

Elisha is so strong, she can carry Theo! Fall 2024

September 2024, Theo is chasing Elisha with sand crabs

He stumbled over words, she said yes anyway!

Our chilly camping trip on the upper peninsula in Michigan, with amazing fall color. And we saw the bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald...completing a childhood dream for Elisha.

Kentucky, at the destination wedding of the season in 2024! We did not eat any fried chicken. But we did get to eat a Paw Paw!!!

She dropped the camera in the mud, but he still said yes!

Aww they love each other!! Spring 2025

Hiking after an Ethnobiology conference in Tahoe May 2025

May 2025

Meeting drag queen Pattie Gonia and Yosemite pride! It was an EXCELLENT Yosemite Pride show! She is quite the icon for environmental justice and queer liberation!