16 Years of Marital Bliss!

I want to share with you some events that took place in the year 1992:

• George H.W. Bush was President of the United States - Bill Clinton defeated him in the Presidential election later that year.
• A Winter and Summer Olympics was held that year in Albertville, France and Barcelona, Spain.
• Johnny Carson retired from the Tonight Show and was replaced by Jay Leno.
• Silence of the Lambs won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
• Miley Cyrus was born.
• And most importantly, on May 23rd we were married in the Logan, Utah Temple!

Mike and I met in September 1991 at Ricks College.  We were in an Interpersonal Communications class together.  On one of the first classes of that school year, we ended up sitting next to each other during class and started talking.  At the end of class Mike said to me

"Maybe we should do something sometime", but didn't say when "sometime" might be. I wanted to give him another chance to ask me out, so I saved a seat for him the next time we had class.  At the end of class he did indeed ask me out, and drove me back to my apartment. Our first date was the following Saturday.  He was an hour late, and I thought I had been stood up.  We drove to Jackson Hole, Wyoming and wandered around the downtown.  We had dinner at Pizza Hut, and then went to see Terminator 2.  After that first date, we were pretty much inseparable.  We got engaged Christmas Eve, and were married in May.  

It's hard to believe that 16 years have passed since that day.  I don't feel like we are old enough to have been married that long.  I think we keep each other feeling younger than we are.  We have had our ups and downs over the years, but our love and marriage have grown through it all.

Time for an Update

It's been brought to my attention that some of you might be getting tired of my Earth Day post. I guess that it is probably time for an update of the past few weeks.  I do have a couple of excuses in my defense.  About 3 weeks ago our computer decided to crash.  We had it happen last summer, and paid to have it fixed.  This time we decided that rather than put any more money into it, that it might be time to just give in and get a new computer.  Of course it couldn't be just an easy trip to the store to buy a new computer.  Mike really had his heart set on a computer that we had to order (an iMac for any of you computer experts).  Once it finally came I practically had to make a reservation to schedule just a little time on it (you know how men are with their new toys). 

The other thing that has kept us busy was having Mike's parents come and visit us for 10 days. It was so nice having them here.  The kids enjoyed being able to spend time with them.  It is like a vacation for me - the kids don't want anything to do with me.  They also helped us get our yard in shape for the year - now I just have to keep it watered and weeded (ughh!).  We got to celebrate Grampy's birthday with him, and Mother's Day with Grammy.  It was a great visit, and we were sad to see them leave.

We are finally getting some nice weather, so the kids took advantage of it on Saturday and pulled out the swimming suits and made their own water slide.  It was great to spend some time outside.

This past weekend was Megan's dance recital.  We left the guys at home - they don't enjoy watching 2 1/2 hours of dancing.  Megan did so well - she is really a great dancer.  I will post the video of her 2 dances after Mike gets them downloaded.