HAPPY ANNIVERSARY...

...to me and my hubby!

Forty-four years ago today...did I say "FORTY-FOUR"?! ... I was wed to my love. How could it have been THAT long ago?

I was VERY young when my cowboy, on his

trusty steed, rode into my life.

It seems only a couple years ago when my daddy cried and held out his hand to my husband and welcomed him as his son ... that, after we had eloped. From that day forward, my husband was loved as one of my parents' own and he loved them as his own parents. He loved my brothers as if they were his own.

We didn't give up when times got hard.

It wasn't easy at first. My husband insisted on us making our own way in this new life. He worked so hard to provide for me and for our daughters who where to come four and six years later.

No marriage is without mistakes and we made some;

however, our hearts were bound with love

and we held steadfast.

Our two daughters married and gave us four awesome grandchildren who entertain us in our 'golden' years...are we there already? Perhaps we have a few more years until then.

I look forward to spending those golden years with him ...

riding off into the sunset and

seeing what adventures are to come in the future.

"Will you still need me, will you still feed me...When I'm sixty-four?"
~Paul McCartney~
(Note) I am there and he still does.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, MY DEAR.

I LOVE YOU.