Sorry Ladies:

This man is taken and he is MINE!!!

So I walked down the stairs to see this...
not just one dozon red roses...

not TWO Dozon Roses...

not even THREE DOZON ROSES...

...but 10 DOZON RED ROSES!!!

(For those who need help with the math...that is 120 red roses in my kitchen)
(with a route 44 Diet Dt. Pepper from Sonic and a card...Does Dan know me or what???)

He knows what makes me happy after 9 years of Marriage!!!

Yeap, Today is our anniversey and 9 years ago today we got married...I started my very own fairy tale...I know a bit cheesy, but I have said it before, I am a hopeless romanic and I have found my prince charming and boy does Dan treat me like a princess!
Who gives 10 dozon roses??? Not just any guy and that is something Dan is not...he is NOT your average guy!

Also, in the card that he gave me...it says, "Redeemable for your "garanite" new counters top"

(Wow! I just mentioned it the other night while we were at Lowe's and he really did listen to me, I thouhgt that he was too busy with the kidos to even have heard me.)

So here we are back in May 1999... This was our engagdement picture. I think that I still look pretty much the same; maybe 30+ pounds more now...but Dan looks so young!

I was 19 and he was just shy of his 22nd brithday!

Purposal: We were heading to where the reception was going to be at, (yeap, I was already planning the wedding and bought a dress with NO ring on my finger, but I had olny 3 months to plan and arrenge things) when Dan said that he was hungry and he wanted Mickey D's...so Dan got the both of us a Happy Meal...NOW we were off to Deepwood Park (for those who are from Oregon) and I don't know when he did it, but when we were sitting there, Dan showed me his "toy" from his Happy Meal and then asks "What did you get?"

Inside my bag was a RING BOX!!! The rest was history!

9 Years ago... August 20, 1999

(Can anyone tell me who is in the picture with Dan and I...Bishop Burton=the presiding bishop of the church. He is a a very good family friend and we were lucky enough to have him fly up to Oregon and marry Dan and I in the Portland Temple.)

(Here are some of my favorite pictures from our day: )

I can still remember...

*The special feeling Dan and I shared sitting and waiting to be married in the temple

*It was the hottest day in August that Oregon has had on record
* Driving down the freeway in my dress and bearly fitting into the Jeep

* Our Cameraman and how he made us laugh...falling down in the mud/grass causing him to be late to the reception. You should see our wedding video>>>it will make you laugh!

* Leaving the reception when it was over and thinking "What is my parents thinking?"

*Having a late night run to taco bell and Dunk in' Donuts because we were starving!!

* Opening gifts the next day at my parents and my mom asking "What did you two do last night??"

*Filling up a UHAL trailer and heading to my new home of Utah with MY HUSBAND away from my parents and sister.

*Staying in my in-laws basement for 2 weeks while our apartment was getting ready...I don't recommend this to any newly married couple. I swear we went to bed at 6:00 every night!

It is hard to believe that 9 years have come and gone and what memories we have made together:

* Married in 1999

*Living in Salt Lake

*Pregnant with our first in 1999
*Move to Orem to manage 44 apartments

*Mackenzie Joy was born in Sept. 2000

*Dan attending the Uof U and UVSC in their accounting program

*Pregnant with second in 2001

*Delanie Grace was born in Aug. 2002

* 2004 build our first home in Lehi

* Dan becomes self employed with taxes and bookkeeping/payroll

* 2005 pregnant for the third time...finding out that it was baby number three and four

Nov. 2005 Carson Twelves and Cassidee Mae are born

We have gone through 6 cars and 4 pets, lived in two different apartments and now a house.

Knock on wood, no major health issues and believe it or not, I can still say that we are happy, blessed in many ways, and are still in love just as much as we were 9 years ago!

Life has come at us and likes to throw in some twist and turns, but working together (that is the key to a successful marriage) we can work through anything.

So here is to Dan and just how much I love him and just how lucky I am to have him in my life.

Dan, you are a great husband, friend, and dad. I am thankful for each day I get to spend with you.

"From Here to Eternity" just like it says in our rings.

"Here's to another 90 years" I LOVE YOU!