September 15, 2007

•  Thanks to everyone who gave me compliments on my hair. I’m not sure I like the chunks, they may go, but I love the bottom. At any rate, it was fun and now I can say I did it. Ha ha ha. We’ll see what hubby thinks, he comes home today.

  Speaking of hubby, Thursday was the 21st anniversary of our Church wedding. I’m not sure I’ve covered this, but we were married twice. No divorces, but we got engaged and planned a big Catholic church wedding (which hubby even converted for). At the time he had orders back to AZ where we met. Unfortunately, he got “diverted” to Germany. He was scheduled to arrive about 3 weeks after the wedding. We found there was no way for me to go with him, if we waited to get married. So…I ended up flying out to MS, and getting married that summer in JOP wedding. Although all his /our friends in MS couldn’t stand the thought of us getting married in a courthouse, and they were unable to come to AZ for the wedding, so they threw us a wedding. No kidding. They did everything. Got me a dress, arranged for the JOP, got a cake, decorated, did the flowers, set up a little reception the works. It was a sweet backyard wedding that I will never forget. Then 3 months later, we married in front of all our family and close friends in the church. The only ones that knew we were already married were our parents and immediate families and the priest.

  You know what’s really funny about that story? Even though we were technically married, the week before the wedding when Hubby arrived from MS and was staying with us — he had to sleep on the couch!! No lie! My dad was adamant. LOL

  On my anniversary I had lunch with a good friend. Her husband is also friends (so to speak – they golf together) with hubby. She was in a state, talking about how bad her marriage is. Her husband is really a butt munch. I won’t go into details, but suffice it to say she stated during the lunch that she was “surviving” the marriage. Not fun at all. I am so glad I’m married to a wonderful man who supports me and not just financially, spends time with me, respects me, and loves our children. He may golf more than he should, but he helps around the house, and appreciates me. We never fight – we sometimes have heated discussions, and occasionally snipe at each other, but have only had 3 real fights in our 21 years of marriage. That’s pretty hard to beat. 

  That night we were on the phone and talking about our friends, wondering how we could help. The next morning, early for hubby in Maui, he called and said he’d been thinking it about all afternoon, evening and morning and was so glad he was married to his best friend. He just called to tell me that.

  Everyone go “squuuueeeeeee”

  Isn’t he great? 21 years and he still makes me feel special. I tell you – I am truly blessed in the marriage department.

  OK – in light of this great squishy lovey-dovey post – here’s some pictures of the hubby and me over the years. Now…nobody pass out. I understand this is two post in a row that includes pictures of me, just breathe deep and hang in there!

        

  Here we are when we first met – October of 85. Then at his parents house after we were engaged, Dec 85 and finally at teh church wedding September 86.

        

  This us our final year in Germany, summer of 89,  A series of portraits we had done in 90 in Florida (look how tan I was) and then with our baby Ducky in 91.

     

  This was us when we first got to Maui summer of 2004, and this was us at a banquent in 2006.

  You what I just noticed? In every single picture, we are touching. I think that’s true with most photos we have of the two of us. Awwwww……

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  Alright, enough sappiness in here — TIBD might just gag on all this so I’d better reel it in.

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