Favorite Wedding Day Memory in the Blog Hop World

So today's topic in the blog hop is to tell your favorite wedding day memory. Well the whole day was pretty memorable so I'll just tell a few highlights!

It was a very stormy spring day in Indiana. Anyone from there knows what stormy days in Indiana when it starts to get warm means: thunderstorms and tornados. Yes, that's just what God ordered for our wedding day. It was pouring rain when I got to the little country church. Everyone was worried about my hair and such and I was just laughing since the weather was so bad. I knew Bill would show up no matter what so I figured who cares about my hair and makeup. He's the only one who is going to see it. LOL.

I remember that moment when he first saw me and that look on his face. I don't think I'll ever forget that smile. He caught a glimpse of me out of the corner of his eye since he was up in the front of the church with the wedding photographer getting photos taken of him and the best man. That's probably my favorite "moment."

Coming in a close second is when we stole away right after the ceremony and went to a little ice cream stand for an icecream cone (just US) before going to the reception. It's a little tiny place. I got vanilla because I didn't want to get chocolate on my white wedding dress. :) Bill got vanilla dipped in chocolate. The girl at the window made a comment that our cone choices matched our clothes.

And one more close second is the rainbow that came out after the ceremony. It had been a rotten storm, but when we emerged from the church as Mr and Mrs. there was a wonderful ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds and as we approached the reception site after our cones, we saw the rainbow reminding us that God keeps his promises just as we intend to keep our vows. It was actually a pretty powerful moment.

2 Reasons To Celebrate, One Blessed Day!

Two reasons, you say? You probably figure that I am blogging about being the mother to 2 amazing boys and that they are my 2 reasons to celebrate. Well they are only 1/2 of the 2. The other is my wonderful husband! Today marks our 6th wedding anniversary. As I would have had it, we wouldn't have been married on May 10th. But as it turned out, wait I mean as the Army would have it, we were unable to keep the July 12th date as we originally planned because of an impending deployment. So when we scrambled to find a date, the only one available was Mother's Day weekend because no else wanted to marry the same weekend that honors mothers. As it works out, it's nearly perfect! How do families begin? With mothers and fathers who get married and promise to love, honor and cherish each other all the days of their lives. Their promises before God to live as one and to be fruitful and multiply are how I actually now have the honor to celebrate Mother's Day as well.

So six years ago today, I was a blushing bride. It was a glorious day of tornadoes and thunder storms, wedding vows, family and friends, and the promise of a wonderful future together. I got married in the church with my 3 best friends standing beside me and my husband in front of me. Everyone who was important to me was there in spite of the weather and when the ceremony was over, the sun came out so full and radiant that there was a rainbow! You see promises were everywhere!




The past few years have passed in a blink. My husband deployed in July of that year and was gone for a year on a deployment. When he returned, we moved to South Carolina, had a son and watched with wonder as we learned to be parents.

(Ian Curtis 11/06/05)



Another PCS to us to Florida where we were blessed with another son and here I am today in Texas surrounded by 2 wonderful little boys that I am entrusted to raise to know God and to become good men like their father. Each day I look into the eyes of my children and now know a little more about how my mother felt about my brother and me.

(Aaron William 7/14/08)



Being a wife and mother has only changed me for the better. I celebrate today with my husband who is across the sea working to help keep everyone in this country free. I celebrate with my children the honor of being their mother. But mostly I thank God for giving these wonderful people to enrich my life. I am truly blessed beyond measure.

Happy Anniversary, Bill! I love you so very much. Thank you for everything that you have provided me and the boys with over the past years. Thank you for being my constant friend and confidant. Thank you for being my husband and for being such a great father to my children. Without you, I wouldn't get to celebrate this wonderful day as your wife or as a mother to our boys! I miss you, but I know that you are thinking of us in the same way that we are thinking of you. Be safe!


(Mother's Day 2009)