...after 4 years of dating (2 high school, 2 college), that my Beloved and I stood before God and said YES...WE DO. FOREVER. TIL DEATH DO WE PART.

24 seems like a big number, but after being married for that long, it really seems 5 minutes (yeah, under water sometimes.....just kidding).

24 years can be fun-but it is also hard work. Life would be boring if nothing ever changed....marriage is the same.  It is an adventure-you never know what's around the next corner....especially in our wild and wacky family.

Of course, God and faith is our center...our core...It's like being on one big carousel ride-sometimes we are up, and sometimes we are down, but God is the pole that keeps us anchored together-HIS is the love that binds.

Tonight we celebrated by having dinner at Taste of Texas.  The boys did their best to behave.....that was their gift to us.  Believe me that was a hard gift for them to give.... You'd have to see, hear and know my boys to understand just how hard "behaving" in a place like this was!  All good-natured of course. The boys were almost crying over the huge cheese slabs.  They vacuumed down the onion strings.  Two of them were so impressed by the salad bar that they ordered salad as their meal.  Xavier and I ordered the Porterhouse for 2-Cameron went with dad and the waiter to the meat counter to pick out the steak....Cameron came back with eyes as big as saucers and described the steak dad had picked out for us.  The food was simply delicious or as Isaac says "moolicious". Xavier and I got free dessert since it was our anniversary.  The boys wanted smoothies instead-so I was pround of them when our server brought the dessert tray by and described each dessert in detail.....and they all turned down dessert.  When the server left, Alex let out this mournful cry and sank into his seat......I asked what was wrong and he wailed..."I wanted it all". But they held out for Baskin Robbins.....

I did get a coffee mug as a souvenier.....they make AWESOME cinnamon coffee. We're all stuffed to the gills.  Even Leo the dog ended up with a huge bone to celebrate.

Now we can start working on the next 24 years!