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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

No Card but Two Photos

Every January 16th John and I have a little celebratory dinner, recognizing the day we first met IRL.  Yesterday we celebrated 10 years.  Not sure how that may years could have snuck by but it was January 16, 2002 when this 80-year-old guy flew 2,500 miles to meet me.  On March 1st, we got married and it's been a wild and crazy adventure ever since.  Here's our photo from last night:
Each year, on this day, we reminisce about the day's events in 2002.  John flew into Seattle.  He took a shuttle bus another 100 miles to where I lived.  I was working and ran to the local airport during my lunch break because that was where the shuttle was supposed to let him off.  Unbeknownst to me, John paid the shuttle driver extra to take him right to his motel.  When he called the Church, where I worked, I wasn't there - I was at the airport.  One of my friends had me paged to tell me that John was at his motel and was going to go get him.  I hurried back to work and within five minutes, in walked my future husband.  We've never looked back.  I make John a photo album every year and the last two years, I've made the album online and the photo from our January 16th celebration is on the front.  He loves to look through the albums and see where we've been and what we've done.

We have 4 pair of resident cardinals that keep John busy filling the feeders.  Here is one male, waiting for his turn to eat.

I'm working on a couple Valentines that use my new Pure Innocence stamps from MFT and hopefully I'll have one to share with you tomorrow.

Thank you for visiting me and for your kind comments.  I appreciate you.

Blessing from Yesterday:  Being able to celebrate another ten years with my favorite guy.

8 comments:

  1. Always love reading about your adventures!

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  2. Happy Anniversary, what a wonderful thing to celebrate!

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  3. Such a wonderful picture of you and John, I always enjoy when you share the story of how you two met.

    Lovely picture of the Cardinal with the snow, is that for your photo a day challenge?

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  4. I love reading about you and your favorite guy! How lucky you both are! Your cardinal is beautiful! Thanks for sharing your photos and your story! PS - Blog hop on my blog today with prize!

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  5. Cheers to you and your sweetie Susie! Congrats on 10 years of love at first sight!

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  6. Congratulations Sue & John! It looks like that beautiful cardinal wants to join in the festivities. Here's to another 10 more years and then some!

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  7. Happy anniversary Susie, what a lovely post. Hubby and I celebrated our wedding anniversary on the 16th, 19 years!
    The cardinal is so pretty, I would love such a handsome bird to visit our garden :)
    Jenny x

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  8. I love that photo of you and John...and your story is so sweet! Happy "Meeting" Anniversary!! ♥ Love your cardinal too!!

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