Married 15 years…..and forever!

Fifteen years ago Dad presided at our wedding and Mom sang two beautiful songs…”Love is a Many Splendored Thing” and “Always.”  Very appropriate, since we are together always, and we promised to love each other always.  This is a promise that we have kept.  

And love IS a many splendored thing….look at the glow in our eyes on the day we were married.  That glow still shines brightly!

Our 5th wedding anniversary….a week long cruise to Alaska.

Our 10th wedding anniversary….at an Airbnb in Strawberry.  It was so wonderful that a month later we bought our cabin in Pine, the small town next door to Strawberry.

Our 15th wedding anniversary….at the Love Nest in Pine.

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Our anniversary gifts….we gave each other a vintage musical dancing couple.  And, amazingly, when Rachelle and Ryan and Mila and Owen celebrated our anniversary last week with their children they gave us cards AND a vintage musical dancing couple.  

A 15th wedding anniversary is symbolized traditionally with crystal….but for us, 15 years is obviously symbolized with a vintage dancing couples.

Aren’t our dancing couples lovely!

We met at a dance, so of course, to celebrate our 15 years of bliss, we now have three musical dancing couples….AND we danced!

One of our songs is “A Daisy a Day.”  In this song a couple is always seen walking together, and every day the man gives his love a daisy.  When they are very old, the woman dies.  The old man still is seen every day walking to the top of the hill, and talking as if his wife is still beside him.  At the top of the hill he brings a daisy a day to his wife.

Every morning when I wake up, I find a daisy that my sweetheart has left for me.  I know that in life and in death that my Danny will always give me a daisy a day….that I will be his love forever, as he will be mine.

So today, on our 15th anniversary, my love played this special song for me….A Daisy a Day.

For our anniversary dinner, I made Danny’s mother’s signature homemade noodles with beef and green beans.  I make this special dinner from his childhood for my dear Danny on his birthday and our anniversary.  It is in remembrance of his parents and a token of my love for them and for my Danny.

He gave his dinner a “thumbs up!!!”

The perfect anniversary dessert….heart shaped cookies smothered in chocolate and homemade ice! 

It feels like we’ve been married to each other all our lives.  Maybe that is because we have such a deep and everlasting love.  Or maybe it is because we have told each other our lives stories so many times that we feel that we were there—together since we were young children….seeing and living the same experiences.  We now share the same memories.

So today we celebrated being married for 15 years…and being married forever.