It’s our 15th wedding anniversary today! 15 years! lol! Dh says it’s been the best 15 years of my life 
Okie dokie then! lol We’re kind of strange in that neither of us really worries much about our anniversary. I hate to admit it but both of us forgot until this morning. Well actually I remembered last night but forgot again before I could mention it to dh. Guess that’s because we’ve been together for so long.
I met dh when I was 17. My mom had passed away in Sept., I was a senior in high school and had just graduated. One of my best friend’s came out to my place to get me out of the house. She had heard this guy she used to date was back in town and working down the road at a truck stop. My dad didn’t want me to go out with her, he had turned very, well, depressed I guess is the right word for it, after my mom had died and didn’t like me to go out much. I on the other hand used ANY and all excuses to get out of the house! It was super hard on me the way my dad acted. So anyway my girl friend gets me and we take off. We get to the truck stop and there he is sitting in one of those little booths that the truckers paid at. I was impressed! This was my 1st time even seeing him and wow was he cute! Hugely buffed, we’re talking not much neck here, black hair, tan skin and very, very light green/blue eyes fringed by super long black lashes. Sigh… I didn’t talk a lot to him, this was my girlfriend’s deal. She flirted big time too so I just kind of stood there. He kept talking to me though. Asked where I worked and I told him. lol~at the time I worked at Spencer’s in the mall. The home of the black lights and se* toys 
We left after my friend got his #. I didn’t give him a 2nd thought.
I had gone out of town to my grandparent’s house with my dad. When I got back my boss at Spencers (a very crotchity old gay guy) started complaining that he wasn’t a dating/message service!! lol! Turns out that quite a few guys that I went out with periodically or had met had all shown up that week at Spencer’s hunting for me. One of them was dh He had left his # and asked me to call. I didn’t. He was my friend’s guy even though they weren’t going out or anything. He showed back up while I was there and asked me out. I said yes. Couldn’t help it! Called my friend, told her, and asked what she thought. She said it was OK with her. She’d just met someone else. Sooo we went out! The rest as they say is history! I never dated anyone else again. We moved in together the next year and have lived together ever since. Took us awhile to get married. We were working etc…and just didn’t get around to it. I hid the living together for a long time from my dad. I knew he’d flip. He finally found out and did flip. Actually by then he’d decided he kind of liked dh and told me dh was likely to leave me if I didn’t marry him soon! lol
So we finally get married and our wedding was NOT the way I planned! At all! I wanted small. I only had 1 brides maid. 1 groomsman. Had told my dad not to invite the world only to find out right before that he did invite the world!! We must have had 200 people there! UGH!!!!……….. Our wedding cake was given as a gift to us by my bridesmaid’s mom and it was WAY too small. I still can’t mention it without dh getting upset! Picture if you will a rectangular cake you bake at home with a little square cake with bride and groom on top. The bride and groom statue was too large for the d@@#$d cake!! lol 
After we made it through the no drinking, no dancing, Baptist reception in the church basement we went on our “honeymoon”. That consisted of a stay at a local hotel that we paid for ourselves and then a trip down to McCreary Co. to visit my grandparents (my grandpa had just had by-pass surgery) and Cumberland Falls.
Here’s just 2 pictures that I scanned in. 
It’s funny. I think we both look much, much better now than we did then!! Hated my hair and makeup, dh had hair then but was soooo skinny!! We didn’t have any $$ at all back then and he basically almost starved to death! Don’t know why I didn’t though! 
I’ve been making these little photo collages using Picasa. lol Saves some time when you’re too lazy to open up Photoshop
Well 15 yrs. of legal marriage, 3 kids and lots of ups and downs later I can honestly say I’m happy Happy with my marriage, of course there are things I’d change but really who wouldn’t, and happy with our life! I know dh is pretty satisfied as well….winning the lottery would be the icing on the cake but whatever!! hmmm…15yrs? We’ve been totally and completely together for ummm…21 years now!! WOW. Most of the time I still feel like a 18yr. old, mentally anyway!
As for gifts to each other? Not sure. Can’t afford much. This IS a special anniversary though and dh said I can get the upgrade and go for PS3 sooo…IF there’s enough after mortgage payment, phone bill, electric bill etc…I might just do that! I haven’t got anything for just myself (except my flowers I planted out front) in sooooo long!! After I vote in QOTC anyway! This is sad but I had 2.24$ in my paypal account for last week’s voting! lol It was just enough for 1 vote though! 1 vote could make or break someone for the win sooo don’t forget to vote!! Mamma needs a PS upgrade!
