Gallery: We Just Celebrated 17 Years of Marriage and Our 6th Wedding Anniversary
The math doesn’t exactly add up does it? This past weekend my husband Rick and I celebrated our wedding anniversary and yes we count the years we put in the first time around;) Six years ago, against most odds, we retied the knot. Here is our story.
I met him on the football field at Shelby High school when I was 16 years old. Man oh man did I think he was cute but I was dating someone else at the time and he was dating someone as well. Months passed, they broke up and he asked me out. I won’t bore you with all the minutia but we dated, married and had two beautiful kids. Then life got in the way, in a huge way. We got divorced but the love and connection remained and so did the friendship. We never stopped being friends and never stopped being the best parents we could be to our two children Emily and Will. But we were firmly in the friend zone. At least I was. Rick says he always prayed that we would reunite and asked God to find a way. He did. Long story short, after years of trails, tribulations and prayer (LOTS of prayer) we did start to rekindle that flame. We knew it was brand new and had to be treated with a clean slate. And I know we only have God to thank for changing our hearts and allowing us to love the way He tells us to. Love is patient, love is kind.
Here are a few pics from our long and storied history: