Love & Marriage

Today is Kenny and my 45th wedding anniversary!!! Truly, that does not seem possible. Talk about time flying, whether you're having fun or not! On May 14th, 1966 did we have any idea what we were committing ourselves to? NOT A CLUE! Here we are in our wedding picture, in for a life sentence!!!! Do those people look ready to live together, make joint decisions, make and raise a family, and a million other things that make a marriage??? Not on your life!!!

BUT, we did it, and we've done pretty darn good for ourselves!!! We had good examples, my Mom and Dad were married for 48 years before my Mom's death and Kenny's Mom and Dad were married 6 weeks short of 50 years before his Dad's death. We used both sets of parents for examples and tweaked everything to suit us. Was is always fun and games? Nope! Did both of us at one time or another declare "I'm leaving, this is not working!" Yes! Did we work out whatever the problem was and keep on keepin' on?? Yes!! And by doing so, we became a stronger unit. A couple that still has the ability to drive each other crazy and then laugh at the craziness!!!

This has been a hard year. Kenny's heart surgery has been much more that we thought would be involved in the recovery. But he's slowly coming back to be more himself. We're in it together and as we get older it gets kinda scary thinking that something could happen to either one of us and the other person is our main link to wellness. I think we'll be okay!

I just thought of a funny story of when we first got married. I was a person that was afraid of every noise I heard in our house. I had just left my family where my Dad would go out and look for all the boogey men that I knew were in the house somewhere just waiting to kill me. Let me give you a visual ~ my Dad, middle of the night, walking down the hall in his underwear with a loaded pistol in his hand, ready to save us from lurking evil that I was sure was in the house. Now, all of a sudden I'm in a house, sleeping next to this kid, who when I wake him up and tell him I hear a noise, is just as scared as I am. I'm thinking, what in the heck have I gotten myself into!!! Eventually he would learn to get up, go down the hall and look but he didn't have a gun with him!!

This is a picture of my Grandma & Grandpa Hogg. My Mom's Mom and Dad. It's a picture of their 50th anniversary. Don't they look old?? I'm hoping in 5 years Kenny and I don't look that old. I Love this picture, just wanted to make the comparison.

My friend Linda Robertson Groobin who was my maid of honor, has always been so good about remembering our anniversary and sending a card. This year is no different and her card is what inspired me to put in the picture of Kenny and I in a photo booth. So here's the card she sent us - Thanks Linda! I LOVE IT!!!

So, next week we'll take a little trip to Reno, hopefully win a little money, go out to a nice dinner and go see Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and get started on 46 years!!

My thought to leave you with this time: Who knows what can happen when you go out on a date with a boy your best friend went out with first?? Life is full of surprises!!

Until next time . . .