Anniversary!

Wow. Look at those young KIDS!! I can hardly believe 14 years have passed since that photo was taken. What an amazing 14 years they have been. College graduations, Seminary graduation, FOUR children, EIGHT moves, countless adventures and opportunities. Now here we are in the AIR FORCE!!! The LAST place I ever thought we would end up. But God is good, He knows what is best for us, and being here in Idaho as an Active Duty family has been wonderful.

Looking through the wedding photos this morning (which hasn't happened in a long time) brought back so many memories. I had 5 bridesmaids ; my sister, Sam's sister, and 3 great friends. What a great journey their lives have been as well. Between all of our wedding party , there are now 19 children here!! One all the way from CHINA! We are still grieving the loss of our dear friend Matt, who was killed in Haiti 3 months ago. Seeing all the pictures of him this morning just brought back SO many memories of the great times we shared with him and Shannon. It just makes me so thankful for my marriage, makes me mindful not to take anything for granted. Makes me thankful that God blessed me with such an amazing husband.

What an awesome thought to try to even PONDER what the next 14 years will bring!

So, what did we do for this anniversary? Well, 5 months ago, at 9:59am, I was at the computer, ready and waiting for the tickets to go on sale, and at exactly 10am I plugged in the information and bought FOURTH ROW seats for the Faith Hill and Tim McGraw Soul to Soul Concert tour.

WOW!!!!!!!!! IT WAS AMAZING!!! Almost 3 hours of non-stop, NO opening act, no intermission, back and forth between solos and duets, music. What a FABULOUS concert! Of course, things had to happen to make it memorable. We started out the night trying out a new restaurant, an authentic Greek place that was delicious!!!! Wow. I ate lamb and hummus and squid, and other things that I don't even remember and ENJOYED it! Then we stopped for ice cream and sat downtown and laughed with our friends, Fred and Tabitha, who were with us for the evening. Then it was off to the concert! Now, it did start about 40 minutes late, but it was WORTH IT! Also, the sold-out concert with at least 40,000 SCREAMING people, didn' t have air conditioning till 10:30!!!!! Talk about HOT HOT HOT. But the nice group of people behind me kept splashing me with their cold beer on my head and on my back and that really helped keep me cool! One of them even fell over our seat and hit her head on the floor next to Sam's feet. I think she was so friendly, checking on us like that, making sure we were OK in the heat. It was after mid-night when we got back, but the kids had done great with our sitter, the big 2 even went to opening night of Vacation Bible School with a neighbor. A great night for EVERYONE!!