TO tell you the truth, I don't remember the EXACT day we met.... I say it was February 16 because that COULD have been the day, and I'm big into "anniversaries" so I picked that one. But it was sometime in February 1989. A Friday or Saturday night, because we were at the "Palladium", a dance place in Salt Lake where we all hung out every weekend. Occasionally we'd go to the Fairgrounds for Country Night, but on this particular weekend, it was the Palladium. I know it's cliche, but I really did think "Have I seen you somewhere before?" even though we'd never met before. I loved him immediately and I followed him around, stalking him, until he finally felt the same way. Of course, it helped that I had laryngitis when we met. Had he known how much I talk, we may not be together today.
This is one of my favorite pictures of us. We had our midlife crises last year, and Ashli took this picture of us at the golf course as we were emerging from all that. We had so much fun last summer, camping and fishing. On Sunday mornings, we'd get up early and drive our little golf cart up to the golf course, where he'd golf 9 holes, then we'd sneak off to breakfast before our 12:30 church meetings started. Good times.....
He's given me the most interesting life. I remember the times we loaded up our little kids and took them on trips because he had a truck load going somewhere.. usually California. One time I was in the sleeper of the diesel feeding Tyler when all of a sudden, the truck was raised 100 feet in the air (he says it was more like 50 feet) as they dumped hay cubes out of the trailer. I was terrified! Kurt says they could hear me screaming clear down on the ground.
He adores his kids. This little girl is the light of his life. I can only imagine how he felt when she and Mack climbed in her little Neon and took off for their honeymoon. I saw him watching them when Mack helped her load her gun while we were out trapshooting last weekend, and I know it must be hard for him to see someone else doing his job. He's a great Dad.
We were so young when we had our kids. Ash was born 8 days before our 1st wedding anniversary and we've never really known anything but kids. He adores our friends' kids, the kids at church, kids at the ball park... He'll be an awesome Grandpa, but not too soon, we hope!
He talked me into becoming an EMT a few years ago and it's turned into a great career for me. I love it when he's on my crew, and I take every shift I can get with him. I feel confident and more sure of myself when he is by my side. He helps me reach for things I didn't even know I could do. Kurt called the hospital on a run one day when Ashli and I were in the back with a patient, and they told him to have me give the patient an IM medication. I was terrified. He looked at me and said "You can do it" and I did! I was so nervous, and he didn't have one second of doubt. He believes in me even when I don't believe in myself.
And.... he NEVER tells me I'm fat! I love you, hon. Thanks for being in my corner.