Favorites Friday: 17 Years

I want to bring back Favorites Friday because there are SO many wonderful things that I LOVE using out there.

But today, I want to talk about this.

Because that was 17 years ago today (it was even on a Friday!).

So. So. young.

Drew and I have been reading a great book whose name I can’t remember and I have 600 things on my plate today but it’s been talking about re-kindling our friendship and talking about the emotions we had before we got married.  I sure loved this fella, but I had NO idea what I was in for.  It’s been a great, long, hard, exciting, thrilling, gasping for air at times ride.

I wouldn’t want to RIDE this ride withanyone else but him.

We had a wonderful wedding, most of which I can’t remember.  We had over 500 guests to my reception and I maybe knew 200 of them, 100 well.  We were greeted with THIS car when we exited.

Rolls and rolls of seran wrap, oreos, toothpaste, frosting…. I burst into tears.  It had been such a long day and the long awaited (because we were Mormons, married in the temple — aka, virgins) wedding night was splayed out in front of us.  We may have sold that car (YEARS later, in California) with toothpaste still under the door handles.

But the thing I remember most was going to the alter with him, and knowing that what I was doing was SO right.  I had made a good decision and had lived my life in such a way that I could make such a decision.  Sometimes I have to think back to that decision and remember how very right it was, and life is bumpy.

Drew is a wonderful man, and I’m sure I didn’t know how wonderful he would be when I married him.  He is smart, funny, laughs at ALL my jokes {well, most of them}, super ticklish, a hard worker and he loves me and his family through eternity.

Turns out, that’s just how long we’re married.  Happy anniversary, Drew.  And because I knew you all wanted more pictures.  Check these babies out!

Happy anniversary sweetheart.  Here’s to another billion-quadrillion-septillion-nanno-billion more. {mwah}