13 Years and Counting

In November we celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary! It is fun to look back and remember such a fun and simple time in our lives. Since then, we have added some weight, four children into our family and definately some wisdom (and less bangs and puffy sleeves). It may not seem like yesterday, but I wouldn't change anything about the last 13 years.

We usually take a weekend away and go to Prescott to celebrate, but it didn't work out this year. So we planned a special dinner/FHE to celebrate with the kids. Dinner was great, then we watched our wedding video that was shown at our reception- including baby pictures, a "special" walk through Freestone park and coming out of the temple. Was that really the thing to do? It was hilarious! I couldn't blame our kids from losing interest pretty quickly!

Then we played a game where the kids answered questions about Ben and I before we got married. Jarom knew the answers to most of the questions- the multiple choice helped.

Here they are:

#1 What was our favorite date to go on?

a-going fishing at Saquaro Lake

b-playing pool and eating ice cream

c-shooting guns

#2 Where did we get engaged?

a- at the Ranch by the wash

b-In Utah looking at a waterfall

c- at Disneyland by the castle

#3 How old were we when we got married?

#4 Where did we live after we got married?

Answers-

As far as dating, we did all three things fairly often, but our favorite was fishing. Ben had a four wheel drive truck that we drove into the lake with a group of friends and would build a fire and fish at night. The most famous fishing trip was when I caught a huge, ugly catfish. Everyone joked that I could out fish Ben and that he should keep me around. I don't think I have caught a fish since- even with multiple trips to Black River since we have been married.

My parents have a pool table we played on. We ensured our next date by betting on the winner taking the loser out for ice cream. We loved going anywhere away from town- the Ranch, on the Rim, the lake, or to the desert. Our group of friends had fun shooting guns while we were out.

We were at the park in Provo Canyon looking at Bridal Veil Falls when we got engaged in July. I was 21 and Ben was 22 when we were married. After we got married we lived in Ben's grandparents apartments by the temple.