It was 11:17 AM on Saturday Dec. 4, 2004 when we agreed to love each other for forever. We knelt down at an altar and promised. Every day since I've tried to keep that promise. Sometimes there are flowers. Sometimes there are kisses after tears. It has been a journey but we've traveled it together every step of the way and that journey began with two hearts full of love, dressed in white, in a temple of God.
She Brought Adventure Into My Life
We've traveled to Ireland
We've been to the Oregon Coast
and the plains of South Dakota,
Hawaii and Missouri.
The best adventures have been the little moments of discovery all along the way where I've realized again and again that I love this beautiful woman. Like the time she was so excited about getting soaked on a ride at Sea World, in December. Or when we would go dancing and she'd look at me with her sassy eyes during the cha cha.
Through The Best Of Times
We were together to welcome our two beautiful children into the world. She did all the hard work, I just took care of her as best as I could.
Poor and in a tiny apartment, she celebrated when I finally graduated college and now years later is willing to support my decision to head back to school.
We've gone back again and again to God's temples and there can feel His peace, His love and it strengthens our bond to each other.
We've served and supported each other through trials, opportunities and have savored beautiful sunsets on Western skies.
Through The Worst Of Times
How do you describe the pain of watching your Princess suffer and waste away? There was so little I could do but love her, pray for her, worry for her and cherish her.
I am so grateful that my Carrie survived and we were blessed with our little Lydia because of her sacrifice of health.
Once I had surgery on my toes and being the big baby that I am, I was in a lot of pain. I slept on the couch because my feet needed to be elevated. My Princess slept on the floor next to me because she wanted to be near me, she wanted to know I was okay, she wanted to comfort me when I wasn't. She loves me.
Just Because
In the past 7 years there have been dozens of times when I have come home to my version of flowers (chocolate covered pretzels, steaks and spicy salsa). I'll occassionally put my hand in my pocked only to discover a love note. I grab the keys and tucked inside the key ring is a rolled up letter of encouragement. Who does that? My Carrie does that.
My Promise
I'll love Carrie forever and try to become the man that I should be because that man loves her for who she is and sees her for what she can become.
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