This would’ve of been mine and
Christina’s
18th wedding anniversary today. So I decided I would shqre our story. I first met her on the night of December 20th 2006 at my church helping with our annual
Scrooge play. I was asked to be the head greeter that night at the last minute. At the time I was working the weekends so I didn’t get to go to Sunday services to often. That was about ready to change because I finally listen to God and was starting the weekday shift at work in a couple weeks. A couple of weeks later she started going to my small group that I led. Soon after that we started running to each other in random places. I would see her at the grocery store or the coffee shop I frequented and any number of
places. One of the favorite memories I have of this time was having a home made pizza party qt my house with some of my friends. Of course she and her kids were invited. After everyone else had left we stayed o my front porch for a couple of hours and talked. This would become a theme of ours. To his day I love to hang out on the front porch! It took me six months to finally get the courage to ask her out. I actually did it through an email. I have recently found the email! I am glad I have it now. We went to see the movie
Even Almighty. This still one of my favorite movies because of this. Even after the movie and I had a taken her home we went for a long walk by her house. From then n we were either talking on the h
phone or hanging out at each others house or other places almost nightly. It wasn’t me dating her, but I was dating her family, my future family. I knew within a couple of weeks that i wanted to marry her. Her family even kept hinting to us that we should get married. My daughter had already picked out their rooms in my house! In early October we had gone to
Taco Bell and she found a taco sauce packet that said will you marry me. She joked to me about, but I kept that packet. Then the that same week she found a
wedding ring at Zales that was on clearance that she really liked and pointed out to me if I ever asked her to marry her, this would be ring she would like. That was it for me. There were just to many hints t finally ask her to marry me! So on October 12th of 2007 I did here on this very blog. So you actually go back to that post and see how I did it. let’s just say I used that sauce packet to do it! And her family was so
very happy that she said yes, especially her dad! It wasn’t to long after that that she and the kids moved into my house, We wanted to make sure we setting a good example for the girls so we had a
Godly courtship. We had different rooms until qfter we were married. Christina wanted a winter wedding and
hopefully a white one. So we had to plan a winter wedding in a short time span because we didn’t want to waite another year. So January it was. nd we somehow pulled it off, with just a ew hickups along the way. We even managed to have a little snow on the ground on the day of the wedding. So on January
26th of 2008 I got the privilege of marrying my Snow Princes. She didn’t want me to call her my Snow Queen because she said that gave a connotation of being evil!!! So Snow Princes it was. The ceremony was the most important thing to us. I wasn’t just marrying her, but I was marrying her family. With that
mind we made sure they were part of the ceremony and I said vows to them also and gave them rings. They became my kids and not just my step-kids. this was very important to us to be united as a family. We had our ups and downs over the years. Mainly it was me falling short with some issues, especially
financial things. There were even a couple of times she thought about leaving me and I wouldn’t have blamed her because of these things. But we made that commitment before God that we would trust Him and stick it out. By far the toughest years were the last couple we had together. This was when Christina
was having kidney failure and all that went with this. It was not only rough on her, but on me also as her care giver. It was tough on our relationship also. Honestly I don’t know how we got through it at times. But once again we stayed the course and we made it through until the end. I can’t tell you how rough it was to see her suffer qnd not be herself in those years. But God gave me the strength to the strong one for
her through it all. But these were also the years thqt we gained a daughter in-law qnd five beautiful grandkids! So it was not all bad. I wouldn’t change a thing over the last 19 years. Well maybe a few things I could hqve done better! This was our story and Ilove telling it, even the bad parts. But if I wouldn’t hqve said yes all those years ago for a simple request to serve my church, I would hv never met my family!
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