I want to bring back Favorites Friday because there are SO many wonderful things that I LOVE using out there.
But today, I want to talk about this.
Because that was 17 years ago today (it was even on a Friday!).
My ❤️ hotels for your 2024 trip:
– Best Western Park Place — it’s the CLOSEST hotel, has a breakfast and if it’s available for your dates, BOOK IT. If not, check out the Tropicana.
– Cambria – this is my favorite one with a great price point for larger groups – has a water park and free breakfast (not walkable though) – but if you want a walkable suite check out Castle Inn
So. So. young.
Drew and I have been reading a great book whose name I can’t remember and I have 600 things on my plate today but it’s been talking about re-kindling our friendship and talking about the emotions we had before we got married. I sure loved this fella, but I had NO idea what I was in for. It’s been a great, long, hard, exciting, thrilling, gasping for air at times ride.
I wouldn’t want to RIDE this ride withanyone else but him.
We had a wonderful wedding, most of which I can’t remember. We had over 500 guests to my reception and I maybe knew 200 of them, 100 well. We were greeted with THIS car when we exited.
Rolls and rolls of seran wrap, oreos, toothpaste, frosting…. I burst into tears. It had been such a long day and the long awaited (because we were Mormons, married in the temple — aka, virgins) wedding night was splayed out in front of us. We may have sold that car (YEARS later, in California) with toothpaste still under the door handles.
But the thing I remember most was going to the alter with him, and knowing that what I was doing was SO right. I had made a good decision and had lived my life in such a way that I could make such a decision. Sometimes I have to think back to that decision and remember how very right it was, and life is bumpy.
Drew is a wonderful man, and I’m sure I didn’t know how wonderful he would be when I married him. He is smart, funny, laughs at ALL my jokes {well, most of them}, super ticklish, a hard worker and he loves me and his family through eternity.
Turns out, that’s just how long we’re married. Happy anniversary, Drew. And because I knew you all wanted more pictures. Check these babies out!
Happy anniversary sweetheart. Here’s to another billion-quadrillion-septillion-nanno-billion more. {mwah}
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