Anniversary!!!

How do you sum up 33 years of marriage in a few short paragraphs? Pretty difficult but I will give it a go. I got this idea from a friends blog so here goes....

The fall after I graduated from high school my friend convinced me to start going to single adults for 18-30 year olds in the church. I had only been active in my church since I was almost 17 and I was now only 18 1/2, I was busy working and I really didn't want to go too badly, but my friend Laura insisted. She had been going all summer and had some really fun times and had made new friends. Well we (Wendy and I) decided to go and give it a chance. The first one we attended was a practice for a program they were going to put on through the stake at each wards sacrament meeting. We were practicing some songs and then some were chosen to speak as well. I remember sitting there singing and this guy came walking in and he appeared to me as some cowboy type guy (Scott) and I remember thinking "He is kind of good looking but I could never date a cowboy, I had been there and done that and I didn't really like that type of guy." Shortly after attending other activities and such I was asked to speak in one of the sacrament meetings, remember I had only been active for maybe 2 years and I had never spoken in Church before. I was terrified!! My girlfriends helped me a lot and I made it through without passing out with a vow to never speak again (broken many times now). In conversation with my friends about the guys that were attending single adults we started talking about the cute ones, the dorky ones, and the fun ones to be around, we each picked one that we kind of liked. Wendy my best friend was very intersted in Scott and I kind of liked his friend Neil, so we set out to woo them (ok no chuckling allowed or even a gut busting laugh, this was serious business for almost 19 year olds). The next activity was to the old Hansen Planetarium in Salt Lake. As we were looking around at all the displays waiting for the star show to begin Wendy told me she was going to try and sit by Scott in the show. I was ok with that and as we lined up Scott was in front of me and Neil his friend was behind Wendy, so I leaned over and asked her in my quietest voice if she would like to trade places with me. Apparently I wasn't as quiet as I thought because Scott reminds me of this often! We traded places and all seemed to be working as planned. I began to really like Neil and I thought he was just the funniest guy I had ever met. I couldn't help but laugh at everything he said (which I am often reminded of as well). We began dating but it became obvious that we weren't that great together and the chemistry just wasn't there, he had hang ups with me coming from a divorced family and I could just never be myself around him either. Well Scott and Wendy never did date and that soon died off for her and she turned her attention to other guys. We still attended single adults and hung out with all the guys and when Neil wasn't there Scott and I would goof around and we became really good friends, I really liked him, he was a nice guy. One night I got a phone call from Scott asking me if I wanted to go with him for a ride in his truck just the 2 of us. Since we were friends I didn't think that was any big deal. He came and picked me up and we just drove around talking. We talked about everything under the sun and I found that I could be myself around him. As we continued talking he told me that he and Neil were talking and Neil told him he didn't think it would work between us and Scott said "oh really, then would it be alright if I asked her out?" Neil was fine with that and so he asked me. I always thought what kind of guy sends his friend to break up with you, but of course I said "YES". The path in this relationship wasn't all smooth, we decided or should I say Scott decided a few times we shouldn't see each other so much and maybe we needed to date others too. That would send me home to cry and then low and behold he would call me the next day to tell me he had changed his mind. I think he was just scared that we were falling in love and he might actually have to make some big decisions, like MARRIAGE. That's a big step and was he really ready for something like that? I was just a month away from being 19 and he was 22. Were we to young?............To be continued.