13 Years

Today we celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary!  It's hard to believe we've been married that long!  Thanks to mom and dad we were able to have a 'kid-free' evening.  We went out to eat at the Cheesecake Cafe in Lethbridge.  It was so nice to just sit, relax and actually talk to each other without competition!

13 Meaningful Memories (in no particular order):

1 - Watching Star Wars (with Russian subtitles) on an air mattress in our tiny first apartment
2 - Laying in bed and watching thunderstorms come across Harvey Lake
3 - Watching you hold our daughter for the very first time and seeing the tears roll down your face
4 - Staying home from work and jumping off the balcony into waist high snow
5 - Blowing up an airmattress as quietly as we could at a campsite in New York, only to hear the neighboring campers come home ten minutes after we crawled in to bed.
6 - Having picnics by the Saint John River during your lunch break
7 - Moving across country... and all the adventures of finding gas stations, hotels and getting the U-Haul turned around in parking lots!
8 - Visiting most of the church history sites and doing a session in the Nauvoo temple
9 - Watching you bless our children in church
10 - Water fights
11 - Seeing our children race to greet you at the door each day
12 - The day you called in 'sick' to work - and how utterly simple life was then...
13 - Being with you through all the ups and downs and always knowing that you are there for me no matter what.  You are my very best friend and I can't imagine life without you by my side.