Diamonds ARE a Girls Best Friend

Yes maam He did good! He did real Good!

This is coming from the girl who doesn't really wear a lot of jewelry. During the week I wear your basic gold band and thats it. With my job its not practical to wear a lot of jewelry. I did wear it Monday though, the guys at work had to see it.

After 25 years and a few hints (not a lot), the Husband pulled it off. Saturday we were going out to eat at Flemings (a steak house)and before we left our house I decided to give him the gifts I had gotten for him (a motorcycle lift and seat, a digital camera for hunting and a Tom Tom GPS ) he loved them. He said it was like Christmas, then it was time to leave, we did have reservations at 7 pm.

You have to understand that for the last 24 years we haven't exchanged anniversary gifts, maybe a card, but thats it. I will say he was surprised, and then so was I when he didn't say "Honey I have something for you too". No he just said thanks and we better get on the road to make those reservations. OK well so much for that. I still had hope.

We got to the steak house and was seated and of course I was starving and was going on and on about which steak I wanted and which appetizer to get. When he shut his menu and said "I have something for you", and "I Love You" blah blah blah get on with it PLEASE!!!!!

Then he laid the box on the table. HOLY COW!!! Not only was it a ring, it was THE ring. The one I had wanted but hadn't told or showed him yet (hadn't had the chance)(and really didn't think it would do any good anyways) Now what are the odds of that. Husband actually getting it and getting it right!!

It was hard to eat (i am left handed) and look at my ring at the same time but I managed somehow.

It is beautiful and it fits perfectly and its all mine baby!

Thank You Husband of 25 years!!!!

More than half my LIFE

I have been married to the same man for more than HALF. OF. MY. LIFE. Yesiree!



Some days it seems like 50 years and some days it seems like maybe 5 (more of the 50 and less of the 5 LOL). Some have been good and if your married you know that some have been bad.



We have been through alot in these last 25 years, just learning to be married was quite an adjustment (and me learning to make gravy). Most of the time I think we are still learning that process. (Husband would probably say that I am a slow learner) We have enjoyed raising two wonderful sons (21 months apart) and all the joys and tears that they brought. The tough times, the good times, happy and sad, they all came and went in phases. Made it through most of them without much tribulation. I said without much, not without any. Raising kids is not always easy and carefree, but the good times sure do outweigh the tough ones.



I was a stay at home Mom in the beginning, until the boys were both in school. That was the hardest and most fulfilling JOB I have ever had. I was lucky, Husband had a good job (he is a workaholic) and we could afford for me to be at home with my sons in the beginning. Both boys are now grown and have moved on with their lives and now it's back to the Husband and ME. That presents a whole new learning process for us.



We have been through 25 count'em 25 years of hunting seasons and yes he is still alive. In the beginning of this marriage I dreaded bow season and being left at home every weekend for three months every single winter. Now to be honest I look forward to it. I look at it as MY TIME. My time to do what I want, to watch what I want, to eat what and when I want and I enjoy that some of the time ( OK I enjoy it alot).



In those 25 years we each have lost loved ones, both of Husbands parents and both of my parents , also my only brother. It was the hardest times of our lives. At one point I felt like the Funeral Planner and that's not what I want to be when I grow up.



In those same 25 years we have also gained some wonderful friends, some have came and went, and some will always be there. We have become close to them and their kids, and grand kids ( We don't have any yet so I claim theirs as mine, She shares)



Most of all in these 25 years we have loved each other, fought with each other, raised two kids together, cried and laughed together. But in the end we made it 25 years, more than half my life.

HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY HUSBAND!!!!

Here's to the next 25!!!!!!!!!

P.S. WAIT TILL YOU HEAR WHAT I GOT FOR TWENTY FIVE YEARS

Party on Old Man

The husband has officially turn "THE BIG FIVE-O"

The lying, I don't even know what all I told, was exhausting. The sneaking around and making calls and buying decorations and lying about where I had been. Lord!
I bought/ordered every thing for the party and took it over to a friends house (except for the balloons and Amy picked them up Saturday) Melanie and Amy went to the bar (yes we had it at a bar) early and did all the decorating for me THANKS GIRLS!!

Saturday was nerve wracking to say the least. First off I'm not real good at keeping a secret, its not that I tell, but my expressions give it away.

So my oldest son and his girlfriend, and the husband and I were going to go to a hunting store (his idea not mine ) and then out to eat, then show up at a specific time for the SURPRISE! Well we got done eating a little early so the lies had to continue, first it was we needed something from Tar-jey, they didn't have it so off to wally world. By then I think he was getting a little aggravated with the both of us (Oh well, sucks to be him) finally it was time to head to the bar.

We walked in and Melanie scared the crap out me screaming SURPRISE. But he was surprised and shocked at all the people that was there. ( and there was alot ) People from work, people he went to school with (long time ago), guys he hunts with and a lot of really close friends.

We partied and danced and visited all night , well till the bar closed down. That seemed like all night to me.

Happy Birthday!! The party was a huge success and now its off to start planning a wedding! Well first we gotta make it thru New Years. WooHoo!