Eighteen Years of.....

....Marriage

Fabulous honeymoon to Disney World
Laughter
Adventure
Tears

My Bachelor's Degree

His Master's Degree
Moving boxes-14 times in 16 years thank. you. very. much.
A few arguments
A couple of hissy fits
More laughter
One Nissan Truck-copper
One Dodge Shadow-white
One rusted out '64 1/2 Mustang-red....and rust...bad call....really bad call
One Chevy Truck-cadet blue
One Nissan Pathfinder-charcoal grey
One Nissan 240SX (sniff, sniff...my baby!!)-hunter green
One Saturn sedan-gold
One Nissan Xterra-silver
One Nissan Altima (can you tell we like Nissans?)-black
One Amazingly wonderful and fun Jeep!-black
A cruise to Cozumel
A few puking episodes
More laughter

Gazillions of brainstorming sessions for ministry events

One wild trip to China for a blessing with almond eyes & rosebud lips
Birthday parties
Road trips

Many, many trips to Sonic
Antique shops
Bills, bills, bills
Weddings
Funerals

Several scrapbooks

Thousands of ice cream scoops

Lots of ministry t-shirts
Hearing everyone else say, "We're pregnant!"
Holding each other tightly while we never could
Dreams of future plans

Romance

The Lord's supper in our living room with bread & grape juice
Amazing weather
Scary weather!

A few computers

Way too many irons!
Interviews at churches

Discovering Starbucks' frappuccino (him-mocha, me-caramel)
Humbling moments
Proud moments
More laughter
Movies, movies, movies
One fluffy Shih tzu-Dusty
Two parakeets-Palmer & Teeka (and Palmer's anonymous replacement)
One annoying Dalmatian that lasted three weeks-KC
One oh so loyal black lab-Izzac
One pretty, but oh so dumb blond lab/arctic wolf mix thing-Quincy
Two very short lived pups-Snickers & Pippen

**How could I have forgotten Charlie & Hugo?!!-dogs-one black, one copper
Two fish-Cooper & Violetta
Four cats-Pepper, Worf, Geordi and presently, Miao
Bad decisions
Great decisions
House purchase
Tons of friends

Sizzlin' hot times that are none of your beeswax-- ; )
More Laughter
Surgeries
Dark Chocolate
Pictures
Books

Holding our hearts up to the Lord over a little boy who came and went
Heartache
Disbelief
Grief

Questions why a a fluffy-haired little toddling JOY has been in our life lately
Hugs
Kisses
Laughter
Blessings beyond measure
Sharing this really challenging thing called life with my best friend who loves God more than he does me and forces me daily to be a better girl and cheers me on and hopes along with me and cries along with me and loves me so much I can't even fathom.

I love you PandaPop.

Happy 18th Anniversary!!!