Our first dance as husband and wife...

Ahhh, first dance as husband and wife. I wrote a couple of months ago about an experience I had when I was first married, so I thought this week I would share with you a little something about our wedding. When we got married, I was 18, the hubby was 20; It was 1999, there was a lot of good music to choose from. We knew we wanted something from our decade as I was a music junkie enjoying our local station that often played rap/hiphop AND alternative rock. So, I had a varied music taste, hubby listened to Jim Rome...his favorite songs at the time were No Scrubs and No Pigeons. You see what I was up against here.

We knew we wanted something that would be easy to dance to as we didn't have the extra cash for dance lessons and I wasn't up for teaching him ballroom, I mostly only knew Swing at the time, so an easy to move to song was a necessity. We also wanted it to be something that really felt like us and that we would be proud to have our children listen to.

So...this was our song...
At the time, being only 18 and 20 I don't think we realized how true this would wind up being to our relationship. Our lives hadn't been that long. We are coming up on celebrating 16 years in June, 3 years away from being together longer than we ever were apart for me, 5 years for him.  We will often turn the song on and just dance to reconnect if we've had a particularly busy week or month. Our daughter loves to listen to it because it is quiet and comforting.  All my life I waited for someone to go on an adventure with and I found him. I was one of the lucky few who found that person early in life and grew with him, and we grow closer all the time. Love truly is a powerful thing that I am so lucky to have found, and have had it for so long. As a funny, here are a few pictures from my wedding day...

A few grey hairs and dye jobs later here we are thousands of miles from where we started. 

September Blogging Challenge: The Three Greatest Moments of my Life

Today's challenge question asks what the three greatest moments of my life are...not in chronological order....

1. The day my daughter was born....

I'm going old school for this one because I had her before digital camera's became big, so these are pictures I took from her scrapbook....

The introduction page I made for her book, look at my OB Holding her, wasn't he hilarious?!

The husband and I probably just an hour after she was born. Look how young we were!!! I forget how young we looked...so anyone who thinks I still look like I'm 19 I have proof I don't!!! LOL

2. The day I got married to my fantastic husband....

(Again, taking pictures from our scrapbook because digi cams weren't so big at the time...)

Our Ceremony

At our reception...weren't we cute! We were so young!!! I can't get over that!

Awww *kissy*kissy*! BTW, I just now, after 14 years of looking at this picture noticed those hands in the bottom right corner! hahaha

3. The day I graduated University.

I don't actually have any photos of this because I did not walk. In 2005 we moved from Orlando to Kansas so my husband could attend law school and I completed the last year of my degree programme online. I worked really hard. I started University in 1998, took a break in 1999 went back in 2000, took at least one class every semester in 2002 I started full time, worked, raised a kid, and still managed to go out with my husband. I kept a B average the whole time. I didn't do so terrible. ;) Those were the longest years of my life and I joke around telling everyone I'm so tired all the time in my 30's because I rarely slept in my 20's! :P

Wow, this was fun reliving those moments...but I need to plan a vow renewal so I can get some wedding-ish pictures of us digital!