Us a few years ago.
Us in high school, before all the kids and life and such
Wedding Dance
Look at how young we were. Can you believe it? 
The summer before my senior year in high school, a new family moved in down the street from my best friend. We spent a large amount of time trying to get a look at their teenage son with out being obvious.Finally I got bored of that, said oh forget it, and walked up their drive way to say hi. He was annoyed as he was working on a car and these girls were in his way.
I managed to convince him to go to home coming with me later that year, and then prom later.
When he went off to the Marine Corps, it was really hard. Shortly after that we became engaged.
We were married in a pretty small wedding on February 20, 1999.
Later that evening we had a lot of our friends meet us at his parents' house and we opened presents, then it was off to Lone Star for dinner. It seemed much easier than trying to plan a meal for everyone.
Then, since Lonnie was in town for such a short amount of time, we went out with some friends of ours who came home form college for the affair. We actually went to the movies, and saw Varsity Blues. Not the best movie, we don't even own it, but that is what we did. We then went and stayed the night at a great little bed and breakfast in town. Then a few days later Lonnie was heading back to where he was stationed. It was a few months before I was able to move with him. It was kind of weird, being married but not being together.
The Marines sent Lonnie to a special doctor in San Antonio, Texas, so on of the men in his unit made the arrangements and told him to have me meet him there, so we had an unofficial honeymoon on the Marines dime. It was fun.
Now here we are 10 years later.
We have been through a lot together.
We have grown up together.
I think I like who we have become.
Some of it was surprising.
God definitely had a plan that we couldn't see. We look back and laugh at all the plans we had and how we thought everything would be. There have been some things I regret. There have been some things that I would have changed, or at least done better.
But I would not trade this life, with this man, for anything. I love him. He loves me. And he gets me, I mean really, really gets me. I can't describe the feeling of know that no matter what he will understand and be there. I adore him. (When I tell him that, he always says "I a-window you") We have a great friendship as well. There is no one I would rather just hang out with. Either by ourselves or with friends, family or kids, it is always him.
Happy Anniversary Lonnie. I love you.
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