Today is our 27th wedding anniversary, so I thought I'd share a wedding photo from way back when---I was skinny and Jim had too much hair. Doesn't he look dashing in his white top hat and boy do I wish I could fit into my dress--I can if I turn it upside down! The other 2 men in the photo are the pastors at the church where we were married in Neosho, MO all those years ago. Believe it or not he was 19 and I was 20. Jim was a police officer and I worked at the bank. Now here we are 3 kids and several pounds later. Oh and notice the colors of my bouquet, our wedding colors, he chose those, which I still love. In fact we both planned our wedding together start to finish and paid for it ourselves. A whopping $1700.00. Nothing by today's standards, but we got everything we wanted and were happy as larks about it.
This year he surprised me with a diamond ring for our anniversary, which really was a surprise, because we never do much of anything for our anniversary. We rarely even ever go out for dinner, let alone gifts, so it was extra special that way, but he's always been very thoughtful and likes to surprise me on occasion and he did! Nothing planned for our day other than hanging around the house, but hey that's good too. Now to get a start on the next 27 years......
