Then and Now

E and I were married 13 years ago this evening in a wonderful little Lutheran Church by Pastor Dan, whom we loved. We had known each other for years, having taught together at the same high school. We shared a common love of teaching, working cross word puzzles, having fun with our mutual friends and, eventually, a shared love for each other.

Since that time, we've experienced the deaths of his father, a very close aunt and uncle and my mother and my step father, Papa Joe. We shared in Kristen and Chris' beautiful wedding also performed by our beloved Pastor Dan. We've retired and moved, built a house in Ft. Myers, helped Kristen and Chris move here to Florida, survived a few hurricanes, made great new friends and kept the old, sold that house, found this one and moved again near the kids.

We've grown older as the pictures here so clearly show and I'd love to say we've wiser but that is not always a given. Things change so much over the course of a few years but some things never do: our friendship and our love for each other.

So, here is to us! Happy Anniversary.