The Best is Yet to Be

To my Randy,

It's been 29 years today. I fondly recall...

• the day you asked me to be your wife... Somehow you knew I didn't need more than 10 minutes to make my decision.

This photograph was taken that very day. Remember?

• how you, my parents, and I all slept in the same hotel room the night before our wedding day.

• the fact that your wedding ring didn't quite fit, but I shoved it on anyway. Did you not even wonder at that point?

• that early morning nine months later when you called my parents and announced, "It's a girl.... and a boy!"

• how embarrassed I was when you preformed grocery cart ballet in the grocery store. Do you remember drenching my back with the vegetable sprayer?

• how you make people smile.

• how you were late for dinner one winter night because you helped pull three cars out of the snow.

• your faith and determination the year you lost your job.

• the morning you shaved the mustache that had adorned your face for as long as I had known you. How you climbed back into bed, tapped me on the shoulder, and made me scream!

• the day I sat in awe of your extreme patience with our teenage children; "I don't want to have any regrets," you explained.

• how nearly every meal I cook is somehow your "favorite".

• the anniversary you declared, while shaking your head, "We've been married for 17 stinkin' long years!"

• how warm and comforting your hands feel as you place them on my head and bless me to overcome.... headaches, fear, frustration, fevers.

• how you manage to make me laugh when I'm in a bad mood.

• how you still like to hold my hand.

• that evening when you were called as the bishop or our ward. It's an amazing feeling to realize the Lord knows you like I know you.

• the day I was suffering from self-imposed whip lash. You washed and rubbed my feet to help me feel better.

• how you lovingly endure concert after concert after concert.

• how every day is a new adventure.

• The day you became "Potts" and I became "Gammie".

• how your eyes tear up when you remember my mother.

• how gently you care for my father.

• how you dance with our grand-babies.

• how you dance with me!

There were those who thought I was taking a chance marrying a photographer. I had no doubts when I said, "Yes". With you, life has been a dream and just keeps getting better.

Happy Anniversary, Sweetheart!

I love you.