Love Actually

Taking a pause in my usual Sweet Sunday posts...to blog about a different kind of "sweet Sunday"...

Today marks our 12th Anniversary...12 years together. It's cliched to say this, but it really has seemed like a blink of an eye.

We met in Shaw Ridge, England, in 1988...two 18-year-olds trying to impress each other -- the English boy with his "cool car" and the American girl with her "coyness"...

It backfired.

I thought he was a geek, and he thought I was a snob.

But something clicked...because 20 years later, here we are together with two beautiful kiddos and one in the "oven." (Does that make us that "classic" American family with 2.5 kids? Just need to build the white picket fence out front. *wink*)

In honor of our anniversary, I dug out and scanned this photo I found behind some other photos in one of our frames. It's from 1992, taken during a visit I made to England while we were dating. Sadly, our friends (on the left) have long since divorced.

Grow Old Along with Me

Grow old along with me...
The best is yet to be~
When our time has come...
We will be as one.

God bless our love...
God bless our love.

Grow old along with me...
Two branches of one tree~
Face the setting sun...
When the day is done.

God bless our love...
God bless our love.

Spending our lives together...
Man and Wife together~
World without end...
World without end.

Grow old along with me...
Whatever fate decrees~
We will see it through...
For our love is true.

God bless our love...
God bless our love.

God bless our love...
God bless our love.

~John Lennon

This photo is from last summer when we hit Philadelphia for a Rocco Deluca and the Burden concert.

We're certainly "growing old" together...and it's wonderful!

Happy Anniversary, A!