Happy Anniversary 2013

This year marks 33 years!  When your husband dies you don't quit counting the years and you spend your anniversary different!

Here is how I spent it this year!

Happy Anniversary!

Once in a while

in an ordinary life,

love gives us a fairytale.

32 years and counting to forever. . .

Having a great day...

So, there is a spring in my step, a song in my heart, and I am up and dressed with an agenda. Also, this is my second post today. What has brought on all this joy?

I survived September (Joe's b-day), October (our anniversary), November (deathaversary & Thanksgiving) & December (sealing anniversary & christmas) again!!!

Wonderful.
Exciting.
Refreshing.
Relief.

Carry on world, I'm joining in again! The other eight months of the year contain just bumps in the road, and surviving them is easier than the marathon from September through December!

Eskimo Legend & Anniversary

"Perhaps they are not really stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy."

I know what you are all saying, "oh no, not another anniversary."  

Yep, but this year I remembered this one thank you to my Joe's new IPad and the handy calendar!  

Friday, December 9 is Joe and my sealing anniversary.

Yep, it was the day we were sealed for all eternity in the Manti Temple.

It was a very HAPPY day and here is what I remember:

• We were married civilly 17 years before we were sealed
• I was more nervous being sealed than married--by then I kinda had an idea of how long "eternity" was going to be!
• It was only 10 months and 5 days from the day I first went through the temple.  (When conversion happens it happens fast.)
• For the past seven years, I have CLUNG and HELD TIGHTLY to that sealing.  
• There was a snow storm, and I didn't care if anyone else was able to make it to the temple.
• There are no words to describe the feeling of  having my family all togeher in the temple.  That was the only day we were or will ever be all in the temple at the same time:  Joe, myself and our children.
• It was very cold, you can tell by our pictures
• Very beautiful and very sacred.

So here's to 14 years and the rest of forever with you. . .I miss you!

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