Did you ever think we'd love eachother more now than on that day?
Did you ever think after sixteen years I'd still think you were hot stuff, even without the Morrisey hair?
Did you ever think we'd have been through so much and still want to spend eternity together?
Did you ever think the inside jokes and silly little secrets that we shared sixteen years ago would still be going on?
Did you ever think that mischievous smile would still make me melt?
Did you ever think we would still know how to cut loose...even during those times when we ought to be serious?When you said "I will" sixteen years ago, did you ever think we would have made it through:
- Seven jobs
- Eight moves
- Nine moving vans
- Five vehicles
- One vehicle fire
- One vehicular vandalism
- One lawsuit
- The birth of two children
- Hospitalization of one of those children
- Diagnoses of many growth maladies and daily shots in the other
- One appendectomy
- About 150 weeks of PMS
- One parent dying
- Another parent surviving cancer and going through divorce
- The marriages of three little sisters and one mother
- The births of two nephews, ten nieces, and the death of one
- Both kids completing elementary school, one completing Jr. High
- Two bachelor's degrees
- Three graduate degrees (one pending)
- The MSAT, CBEST, DAT, NDBE parts 1 and 2, and the WREB
- Ownership of nearly 50 computers
- One private investigator hunting you down from 1989
- Three sets of hearing aids
- At least 6754 arguments about the volume on the stereo/T.V.
- A bout with a marital counselor
- Three different callings within the bishopric
- One comedic house plant named "Shwing" and its ultimate demise
Did you ever think one awkward dance in the single's ward and one salty attempt at meatloaf would have led to this?
Happy 16th Anniversary, Wayno!
13 comments:
Congrats you two! It is nice to see that we aren't the only ones with gloomyish Oakland Temple marriage pics.
I'm curious about the private investigator?
Don't forget a missing child incident during the last move. Thank goodness Timmy was eventually returned to his family.
Congratulations on 16 years...may there be many more to come. And hopefully without so much school!
Love you guys.
BTW, I've been getting some pretty funny word verifications lately - for this one it is "prope" and last time I got "germie" :)
Did you ever think you'd both remain so ridiculously good looking? HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! I love you guys!
Di - "remain"? Don't you mean even MORE ridiculously good-looking?
I have never in all my live-long life seen those pictures. They're quite fantastic.
Happy anniversary, you two. Keep it up!!!
I love this post, Shana!
One day you will know that there is NOTHING better than having your children happily married. Its a little glimpse of Heaven.
Thank you both for persevering and enjoying it!!
I love you all so much
Jason, at least it stopped raining just as they emerged from the temple. We thought (think) it was a tender mercy of the Lord.
Angie, They didn't get the pictures for a long time. And we didn't live very close, but I'm sorry you missed the pictures. I have some of them here now.
Just to prove the tender mercies, my word veri is "skies", as in cloudy, but NOT rainy! =)
Amy,
Good one! How could I forget my Timmy?
So here's the scoop: The P.I. came looking for Wayne apx 10 years after a traffic accident that had invoved a woman in a parking lot throwing herself on the hood of Wayne's car (This had happened right before his mission, and when he suddenly "left the country" it looked a little fishy. So while he was out of the country, a P.I. was snooping around, looking for him... But that's not the one I'm talking about...)
Apparently, YEARS later, an astute defense attorney noticed that this same woman got hit by a LOT of slow moving vehicles and had a very litigious nature. So, enter P.I. #2 almost a decade later, trying to hunt Wayne down for a statement to lambast the fraudulent claims from this very unlucky woman. Nothing really ever came of it that we know of, but that was a really weird phone call!
You are too cute.. what a life! I am looking forward to you blogging the rest! Oh happy 16 years to you both!! Much love, Travis & Kristine
Hey Shana! Cute post and great pics! We just moved Fairfield. Branden is commuting to Sacramento for his summer internship and then we will go whereever the job wind blows us. Doesn't look like we'll be crossing paths anytime soon. Bummer!
You guys are delightfully cool.
Did you ever think that you'd have perfect strangers wishing you a Happy 16th Anniversary and saying how darned cute you were back in the day and that you look as lovely as ever, even though we've never met, and that the stranger's eyes were smarting with tears because of the cleverness and yet absolute sweetness of this post?
Probably ya didn't think about that one either, when you were eating salty meatloaf.
Oh my goodness. It is official--I'm not allowed to read your blog late at night anymore. I am laughing so hard I have tears coming out of my eyes, and my abs just got their workout from laughing so hard. "One comedic house plant named "Shwing" and its ultimate demise"--I am dying over here. You guys are so funny. Happy 16th you two!
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