11 Years

I'm not normally a sappy person, but today I kind of am. It was exactly 11 years ago to the date and day that Branden and I met. What a huge amount has changed in those 11 years. We now have 3 children, at the moment 4 dogs and as Branden pointed out bigger butts. I said I had an excuse, I have had 3 large babies. He has yet to come up with his excuse. I will say that I am grateful that 11 years ago Branden and I decided that he needed to be somewhere we really weren't planning on being. Our mutual 2nd cousin was having a mission farewell. Neither of us really planned on going, but because family has always been important to both of us we both ended up going. Neither one of us was going to go to the open house afterward, but circumstances made it such that we both ended up there. And low and behold the whole family conspired to get us together. I am really glad they did. Now before you all think that we have one messed up family tree we don't. We are not related, but we have 2nd cousins in common. My great uncle is eternally married to his great aunt. (I say eternally because she has passed on.) So I say thank you to the whole family, especially Uncle Homer, for being inspired to make sure we met and talked. Come this Friday the 13th it will be 11 years ago that we had our first date. Our second date came the next day (Branden will argue and say it wasn't) and then our third date came the following Monday and then our fourth that next Saturday. After that we rarely were apart and were married less then 6 months later. Thank you Branden for a great 11 years. I love you.