{Thankful Thursday}

Probably flashback Friday too ! 11 years ago May 2 D and I were married!! So here is a little background--- I couldn't have been more excited, happy, {overwhelmed that friends came along way Rose, Tasha, Sara S. I love you guys.}
We felt so loved and had so many people come to the temple and the reception. It was a perfect day everything turned out just the way I always dreamed. I'd waited 7 months for him to ask me and we were engaged for 3 months.
We met at Ricks I knew who he was he didn't know who I was {we were from the same town but he was two grades ahead of me} So his first words to me were "Who are you?" If that isn't embarrassing what is, I probably looked like a stalker tracking him down on campus! Oh well I got a ride home that semester from him and we talked the whole way home and I swear it was love at first sight for me he was everything I ever wanted in a husband, Good looking cowboy, kind, smart, returned missionary, always serving others, awesome family and he was kind and respectful to everyone ! He still is all those things. Thats what I love about him. We dated for quite awhile {in my books} it took him a little longer. Months of torture from people embarrassing us with questions like "you got a ring yet" or when's the big day" when we weren't even engaged I hated it I felt like maybe D would run the other way. But after a lot of dating and really getting to know each other I really knew for sure and he did too by the time we were engaged I didn't learn anything new besides what I was supposed after getting married. D even went back to Ricks when the next semester started ----for one day then I like to think he missed me so much and he enrolled in college here and we continued dating. That was a happy day when people told me he was back!!! I'm pretty sure I cried alot. I was pretty pathetic in the dating D era {just ask my sisters lol} I was always waiting for him to call and wouldn't go out sometimes cause HE was going to call. Oh well.




Anyway I am so thankful for D for our marriage for all we have learned over the years. We started out farming, me too baling and driving tractor for D's dad, he worked at a cement plant, I worked at a subway, then I worked as a teachers assistant then D decided it was time for a bachelors so we moved to Logan, UT for 2 years, alot of tears were shed in those days over never getting pregnant we had been through alot of fertility testing and treatments before we moved to Logan and it was a really hard time but it was also when we knew we could adopt and we could love those little babies as our own as if they had been born to us.
SO we moved home after D graduated to start our paperwork and got jobs and continued on with life.

So here we are 11 years later three beautiful birthmothers later placing three beautiful children with us to make us a family, years of tears, hard work, lots of paperwork, a masters degree later we are living, loving, and laughing. Couldn't be happier we look forward to an eternity more as a couple and a family. We are blessed. Watched over. and HAPPY. I love D so much he is a great father, husband, boss, worker, bishopric member, best friend, son, uncle, brother. Most of all my best friend. He makes me a better person and is always kind and patient and makes time for us in his busy schedule. We work so good together and sometimes its weird that we get along so well we have fun, we laugh a lot and through good times and bad times we depend on each other and grow closer and stronger. I love him more then anything. What a great 11 years all of it!!!

So for your viewing pleasure ha ha {and fair warning on the ruffly, puffy,sequined, big dress and bow ties, and windblown hair things change a lot in that number of years } anyway here are some pics from back in the day scary as they are its funny because they are pre digital and I notice all the things I would love to do again but it was the year and things just keep getting better! Now you see all the beautiful dresses and pictures and decorations that would be so fun to do but oh well, it makes us look old but here they are!! {they don't scan very good either but ..} Have a great weekend ! { On an exciting note my brother in law got his mission call yesterday to the Colorado Denver South mission }

Mr squinter and I 11 years later {actually technically this is last years picture but you get the point!} Happy Anniversary Babe!