We were engaged….15 years ago today!

15 years ago today, we were engaged….we planned to be married as quickly as possible. Even a moment apart was almost unbearable. 

We pledged our lives to each other just 10 days after my Danny took me to Buck’s Restaurant in Everett and then to a dance, where we danced only together….and danced the night away.  I fell in love with him on this first date.  It was the only time that we had been alone together…the first time we had talked hours on end.  

Before that we had only seen each other when we danced together at a Whidbey Island Saturday night dance and at dance lessons that Dan had started going to.  He had fallen in love with me the very first time that he saw me across the dance floor at that Whidbey Island Saturday night dance.

He had signed up for the dance lessons just so he could see me and let me get to know him.  Isn’t he a true gentleman!

Today we celebrated this magical month of May….15 years ago when we fell in love.

This is the first thing that I saw when I got up this morning.

I surprised Dan by wearing the same clothes that I had worn when we danced together 15 years ago.  My love created a dance list from songs that we had danced to during our courtship. Dancing together to these special songs invoked so many memories that it brought tears to our eyes.

Our anniversary toast by my dear husband, “To 15 more years!”

My dear husband decorated my gift with flowers from our garden…isn’t it lovely!

And the love birds are just as lovely.  Several of our children have called us “love birds,” so these birds are a very special gift.

The matching cups that I gave to my Danny have a photo of us dancing in the grasslands where our ashes will be mixed together and spread….where we will dance together through all eternity.

The 27th book of Our Life…filled with our adventures, family, and love.

Danny barbecued the steaks that I had soaked for 24 hours in my Mother’s tasty marinade sauce.

I made a heart-shaped lemon bar (from the lemons on our tree) to celebrate this momentous anniversary.

15  years after our courtship in this glorious month in May, we still find it unbearable to be apart for even a moment.  And that is how we want our marriage, our life to be…side by side, together forever!