Happy early Anniversary to me

June 25th will be four y ears of awesome marriage for me and Billie. It hasn't always been perfect, but whose marriage has been? We learned a lot in our first year as most do, but it made us all the stronger. Our story is an interesting story in how we met and so forth, and I'll save it for another time. But suffice it to say, it was only God who could have put all the pieces together and here we are today.

Billie is very creative and she's horrible at keeping secrets when they pertain to gifts and so forth. When the first present is wrapped under the Christmas tree, she begins on a quest to get at least one opened before Christmas day and for me to do the same. She loves it. This year, I got my anniversary present 24 days early. Billie has found a program that she's been using to make videos for the church and even a vacation video of our time in New York and Hershey. I guess this program can do a lot more than videos because Billie made an actual book out of all our pictures and letters, and the works. I guess she scanned everything in the computer and placed them how she wanted on the pages and journaled on them. The book is 51 pages long and includes pictures and memories from when we first met on January 9, 2005 to our engagement on February 14, 2005, to our marriage on June 25, 2005, and finally to our buying our first house in October of last year. Movie stubs, crazy pictures such as the one's you take at the mall in the photo booths, and little notes are all in the book. Even my best ways of describing this book is not coming close to doing it justice. It's definitely the greatest gift I've ever received. I love it! And I love my wife!

. . . though I must wonder . . . did I get this early and coincidentally get an annonymous email from "Zales" about a ring out of coincidence . . . .