Maybe it's May - 36th Anniversary Edition

Yep, 36 years ago yesterday at a Vista Point overlooking Lake Tahoe in Zephyr Cove, Nevada, my husband and I got married.

I say we have a fairy tale story...

Oh, those days before kids when we were kids.

I found this little couple and put them in my fairy garden in front of the studio.  Kinda looks like us, no? 

We recreated the moment at our 25th anniversary.  I didn't think about it or I'd have stood on the other side.   

One of our first "concert selfies."  I love this picture of us.

Six years ago we had this "portrait" done in Reno, one of our favorite places to spend our anniversary.

Benihana has been another of our anniversary go-to spots for many years.  We couldn't eat inside this time but we did get take out and ate at home while watching a movie, "Call of the Wild."  

Not gonna lie, the last 10 years have been really hard on a lot of levels.  It has tested me to the limit and sometimes it felt like I was just hanging on by a string.  Sometimes I even considered letting go.  But then I take a breath and realize that it is life and we'll get through it.  Here's to love and another 36 years.

     

Just Jot January - 2018

Today's #JusJoJan is the word Knight, put forth by Leta Hawk at Hawk's Happenings.

I have often called my husband my Knight in Shining Armor and even started our wedding scrapbook with "Once upon a time..."

This is each of us in 1956.  He is smiling.  I am making
"funny face."

It is not too far fetched to say that he saved me, maybe not from a locked tower, but I had been in an unsuccessful first marriage and was coming off a breakup from another less than perfect relationship (with his brother no less).  I could have gone into a deep spiral thinking that there was no one out there for me and that I would end up being a lonely spinster.  (I was only 26 and I'm way to optimistic for that but you get the idea).  I wrote a bit about the love story here.

Instead, there was this really attentive, funny, sensitive, romantic fellow who made me feel that I was someone special.    

Someone he wanted to share his life with.

We've been on many adventures together, some of which have felt like we were fighting dragons, and he has the scars to prove it!  We've even found some castles along the way.  

Fairy Tale?  Sometimes it seems that way.  Perfect?  No way.  Being married for 33 years (34 in May) is definitely work.  Worth it?  Absolutely.  

When we celebrated our 30th Anniversary in Reno, we had a caricature made.  I think it captures us perfectly!

Here's a card I made for the Etsy site a while ago but I could easily have given it to him :)

That's my Knight story and I'm sticking to it.  Have a Knight in Shining armor of your own?  Tell the story!