Time Flies When You're Having Fun....sometimes even when you're not! These last 35 years have been an adventure! I love this guy of mine so much more than when these pictures were taken. I knew he was a great guy but over the years he has proven to be so much more! I pretty much adore him....okay....I seriously adore him!
In the past 35 years a lot has happened and I wrote down a few of the things that I could think of. (Larry helped me) We have visited 18 countries! (wow...that surprised me) We have been in 30 of the states. We have lived in eight homes...(I counted apartments) We were blessed with seven children and only had one miscarriage. Right now we have nine grandchildren. We owned four horses. We've had at least two snowmobiles and two wave runners. We have owned 8 boats. (we like boating) We've gone on 7-8 cruises. Between us we've had seven surgeries...two for me and five for Larry. Larry has had three broken bones. We've collected souvenir spoons, rubber stamps and stuffed animals. We've only had two major fights and divorce was mentioned in one of those. (I had to point out that whatever we were fighting about wasn't terms for divorce) We've each held a current Temple recommend for the 35 years. We made two bad investments and at least two really good investments that certainly outweighed the bad. (we did learn from the bad investments) We have had about twenty-one vehicles between the two of us. We have buried a few loved ones: Great Grandma Muir, Grandma Bessie, Grandma and Grandpa Lowe, Nonna, Grandma Bernice Lowe, Ken Friesen and quite a few friends. (I might miss one so I won't mention any friends but there have been several).
Our favorite place to be is with each other....it's true....we love being together. We make each other laugh and smile. Once in awhile we tick each other off but we don't let those times last very long. We have learned to be more forgiving and take things less personal. We seldom go to bed mad and have always said our evening prayers together. We usually read scriptures in the morning with our kids and have family prayer with them before the day starts. (not so much in the summer...Larry lets them sleep in) I'd say we've done pretty darn good. We're both still smiling and happy and look forward to the evenings when we are together. I'd say we each made a pretty good choice...we've been blessed!
This year we didn't plan anything special for our Anniversary and so we counted our weekly Temple Night as our celebration. Heck...everyday is pretty much a celebration right? It felt a bit strange not having a bigger celebration because we usually do go away for at least a night. It was okay though. We had to take two pictures at dinner because Larry blinked in the first one which gave the guy behind us plenty of time to be ready to photo bomb us. ☺ We went to Long Horn Steak House for dinner and it was yummy.
Larry brought home flowers and a huge card for me last night. He is such a sweetie. I wanted a picture of him with the flowers too. I ended up taking a few pictures of him. The first one his smile was forced and so I made a few "arrangements" and captured the smile I love! I think Eternity is going to be Great!
