The eve of my 15th Wedding Anniversary...

WOW - 15 years!!! I celebrate this landmark... as I know that 25 & 50 are still a ways off & who knows what tomorrow will bring!! How amazing!!! I always laugh at the thought back in our first year of marriage while attending a Marriage Relationship Institute class together that a couple had come to talk to us & told us of their wonderful 5 years they had been married... I remember strongly thinking - WOW - that is old!! Each year that rings back to my mind & I have to laugh as I approached that & now as I have 3 times passed it!! I must be really, really, really old!! Oh well!! What else is there better, than to grow old together?

I reflect back on the eve of my wedding... 15 years ago, tonight here are some memories:

• I went to SLC with my parent's the night before I was to be married as we had to be to the temple like at 5:45 or so.
• My parent's took me to dinner at Mulboons... which is seafood restaurant (& I don't eat seafood nor like it) - so I have always believed they took be there as THEY were celebrating! ( Me being married off & whew - one out the door!!!) ((smiling!))
• We stayed at a hotel that night & there was nothing really to do.. so I think we rented our 1st pay-per-view & it was the week Mrs. Doubtfire came out with Robin Williams!! It was the best show!! I really did laugh a lot & I think it took my mind off being nervous.
  
• The next morning I arrived at the temple after already an hour or more of curling my hair which didn't look all that great as I did it alone & it was dry & not cooperating. As I arrived I saw Dave looking like a ghost & mouthing to me... "I almost didn't make," it as they whisked me off.
• WHAT WAS THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN?
  
• Later I learn he had gone to play a late night basketball game (city league) with his Dad & friends in Manilla, UT & while there - the huge snow storm hit this side of the state closing down the interstate. So they LITERALLY almost didn't make it... they worked the back roads all night & arrived to his mom's hotel to get dressed & to the temple just moments before we were to be married.
  
• Tonight we laughed at how I spent our wedding day waking him up... I told the kids (jokingly) over & over & over too!! He slept every chance he got!!
• We had a wonderful day... snow was on the ground, but flowers were already blooming, with the St. Patrick's day parade going by as we took pictures after the cermony. Then we had a awesome lunch with so many family & friends who joined us... then we flew away to CA where we spent several days seeing the sights.
  
• 15 years so far & 4 children & the rest of eternity to be together!! I love ya HoNeY!! Thanks for everything you have done & do for us everyday & for standing by me all these years!! You mean the world to me!!