Oh How I Love This Man!

This is my man! Oh, how I love him. We just celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary on 07-07-07. He was so sweet this year. He tried to surprise me with a special dinner out. His parents were going to be at our house the weekend of our anniversary, so he had called them a month before and asked them to watch our kids so he could take me out to one of my favorite restaurants, The Melting Pot. Now I said he tried to surprise me because he has a hard time surprising me. I know him too well and I pick up on little things when he is being secretive. He finally had to tell me because one of his cousins, and his family, were also going to come and spend Friday with us and I was trying to figure out what I was going to feed everyone while they were here. (He took me out Fri. night instead of Sat. when his sister and family were also going to be here and we were all going to the rehearsal dinner)

If you have never been to the Melting Pot you must go. But be prepared to spend a couple of hours if you have a full 4 course meal. It is a fondue restaurant and it is fabulous. For my friends in Illinois there is one in Indy across from the Castleton mall. You start out with a cheese fondue, then a salad, your entree fondue, and then the very best, a chocolate fondue. I think I could live on the chocolate fondue! They have several to choose from and I think they all sound divine. We made up our own with milk chocolate and cream de menthe. YUMMMMMMMMM. Travis really liked the restaurant too. So don't think your man won't. Just know that is pretty expensive.

I thought I would share some old pictures with you all. Here is one from when we first started dating. This was my sweet sixteen birthday party. Sorry it is so dark. I think it was from my disk camera. Don't we look so young. We started dating when I was 15 and Trav just turned 16. That scares the daylights out of me now with three little kids one of whom is 9. That is only 6 years away. Yikes!!!! What were my parents thinking?

These two are from college. The first one was at a Pi Kappa Alpha formal in Indianapolis I think. I was pinned as their sweetheart at that formal. The other one is at a Delta Gamma formal. I can't remember where.

Next came the marriage!

We still look so young! What has happened in those 12 years!?! We dated 6 1/2 years before we got married. So that means we have been together 18 1/2 years. How can I be that old?

Now there is special meaning to the date we chose for our wedding. First of all my parents were married on July 6th and Trav's parents were married on July 8th. Also our first date was on Jan. 7th, so July 7th 1995 was right between our parents and exactly 6 1/2 years from our first date.

Travis, you are the love of my life. Thank you for sharing your life with me. You are a wonderful man and I am so glad you are my husband and father to our children. Your love of God and people is such an inpiration to me and so many others. I will love you always.