41st and 10th Anniversary

 We celebrated our 41st anniversary with a Burley Burger dinner and a Nielsen's custard for dessert.. and writing down 41 random memories...

1. I took my temple endowments out on St Patrick’s day 1983. I smiled when I put a green apron on. 

2. Climbed to the top of everything in Paris  for  our anniversary of 2018

3. Anniversary 2012 in Manchester, England picking up T

4. Wayne’s pink tux jacket

5. Having to go back and get Wayne's wallet for honeymoon

6. Trying out every bed in Park City condo on our honeymoon

7. Falling asleep to Chariots Fire every time we tried to watch it

8. Sleeping in 1st apartment with no air because too much $

9. 2nd hand black vinyl furniture  that we stuck to when we sat down. 

10. Our first car had a smashed in drivers door Chevy impala

11. Having our first sex before our reception at our apartment then we walked across street to reception at Canterbury hall.

12. Cruising with cousins and siblings and we all wore Grandma Butters Sweet Adeline dresses

13. Cruising with our kids. Singing karaoke - and everyone was clapping and hollering.

14. Painting kitchen cupboards red

15. Stephi dog - going away and coming back 

16. Taking up biking at 50 years old

17. Moving to Layton at 61 years old 

18. Learning canasta at Webster's cabin

19. Snowmobiling in Yellowstone with West Bountiful people.  

20. Sign up across our garage for Melinda’s 40th. She's so hot!!

21. Bountiful temple dedication with Addison in attendance at corner room in the temple.

22. Wayne getting raccoons out of our chimney.  "Santa Claus"

23. Flying to Philadelphia to pick up Laila and home with a gorgeous baby that everyone stopped us and wanted to see and goo at.

24. Wayne getting a ticket driving to pick me and baby Addison up at the Lakeview Hospital. He was too excited. 

25. Landon tieing his blanket on body and  praying like a nun

26. Monson winning in football.  So many fun games to attend.

27. Tru walking into barbershop with long hair to get a trim, and coming out buzzed in JR. High.

28. Wayne standing on a bar stool in our front yard cutting down the willow tree- I made a ton of willow chairs 

29. Boys fighting. We get phone calls about Monson with a knife

30. Sitting in choir concerts at Bountiful High

31. China trips. Wayne got BlackBerry device he wore on his belt pickpocketed on the subway 

32. Finishing basement in West Bountiful house - and our first home computer.

33. Baseball bat for a home intruder in West Bountiful

34. Hot air balloon rides for Bash family reunion

35. Chasing Hot air Balloons at balloon festival in Albuquerque with all the Coles in a motorhome.

36. Saluting Wayne’s dad at the cemetery when we motorcycle by. 

37. Bear lake walks, beach and shakes. 

38. YSA bishoping activities 

39. Performing in Guys and Dolls and My Fair Lady at Terrace Plaza

40. Swim parties and holidays at Grandma Butters pool

41. Flying to Orlando to hold our first grand baby 2014 

 I found what I wrote in a journal about our 10th anniversary on March 21, 1993

10 years with Wayne-- it's hard to believe as I look around and see how far we've come.

We got married 10 years ago on $400 a month and a prayer.  We lived in Dad's apartment, and we drove Dad's car because we couldn't afford one.  Wayne was home from his mission for just 3 months and I was finishing my last quarter in college.  We lived on Top Ramen noodles and macaroni and cheese and anything cheap.  We longed for offers from our parents to eat at their houses which they did offer us frequently.

Wayne was working with Joel LaSalle in a new sign company and Nine years later after they went their separate ways they are working together again in a new sign co. Glifx. 

We had no t.v..  Mom's next-door neighbor gave us an old microwave that we fixed for $40. We had hand me down everything- bed, couches, table etc.  

We turned on the air conditioner in the apartment for one month and our bill was so high we decided we would just have to be hot and sweaty instead.  The apartment was upstairs and we opened all the windows and even slept right by the sliding glass door when we pend..and boy was it hot.  That was the spring and summer of the incredible floods of 1983-- mudslides, river down State Street, and tons of water everywhere. 

NOw 4 children and 2 houses and 9 cars later...10 years have definitely happened.

Wayne has gone from $400 a month to over $50,000 a year.  We started a sewing business 5 years ago- Sew Perfect- and make pizza delivery bags.  I taught at Bountiful High School for 4 1/2 years.  

We've been to New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, West Yellowstone, Denver, Orlando, Portland, Phoenix- all over on vacations.

And best of all we still love each other!  I love Wayne!