Tomorrow is #26!

Really, its more like 29.

As soon as we started dating, we knew would marry. Well, to be honest, we knew BEFORE our first date! We did things a tad backwards ;-)

He moved to my mountain when he was 14. I was 12, in the front yard, doing cartwheels. He can even tell me what I was wearing and how my hair was.

As they drove by, his Dad said, "See that girl there? That'll be the girl you marry." Jimmy, being a young sprout of a boy told his Daddy, "NO!" But in the back of his mind, his head and heart were telling him, "YES YOU WILL!"

He said the next time he saw me I was hanging upside down from an apple tree limb. He said that sealed the deal! lol

The next few years, we rode the school bus together. I never knew who he was. Never spoke. But he was always watching me. When he got old enough to drive around the age of 16, he got a car so stopped riding the bus, but did from time to time. I STILL didn't know him, just knew him as a boy who rode the bus sometimes. Sat alone and nobody bothered. But I DO remember him looking at me! Still! He rode by my house a lot on his bicycle. Our dogs hated him! LOL

Then one day, he sat next to me on the bus, on our way home in the evening. He plopped right down next to me and opened up a HOT ROD magazine, laid one half of it on his leg, the other half on MY LEG, with his hand under it!! I had no idea who this guy was! I tried to move my lap, he moved with me. But yet I felt safe with him, knowing he was goofing off. He let it be known to me that he liked me! ( You think?!?!?! )

Well, we had idle chat. Got off at our stops. ( he lived less than a mile from me ).
Then luck would have it that I would start going to church where his Dad preached.

He drove by my house everyday back and forth to work. He could have taken a shorter route home, but didn't.

July of 1984~ the summer we REALLY started noticing each other. Always talking. I would always be casually walking the roads when I knew he would be driving by. ;-) So he would always stop and talk to me. We were best friends from the get go.

August, he asked me to walk with him to a place out here on the Mountain called Castle Rock. Its a place that all us young folk on the Mtn. would walk to. Its the edge of the Mtn. and it overlooks the whole valley below us.

We had our first kiss.

Our first date was September. See, told ya we did things just a tad different! lol

We began our relationship in the summer of 84. We wed Christmas Day of 1987.

Took a while! He was so afraid of getting married. ( $$ ) In this pic, we don't exactly look happy! But, he had a bad mouth ulcer ( he has one now~ ironic huh? ) and I had strep throat and was running a fever!!! Our honeymoon was anything but a honeymoon! We stayed in bad hotel the first night with me throwing up and the next day we drove into Kentucky, turned around and had to go back to that same hotel for the next night, then the next day we went HOME!!!!!

In the mix our our relationship, even when it was trying to start, we had a lot of hindrances. I was even dating somebody else and he was silently standing in the shadows, knowing he would wait. I always asked him why he didn't interfere. I understand now. We had a lot of heartbreaks. Things trying to come between us. I wont dwell on those. ;-)

But those things only made us stronger.

To put into words what my husband means to me, there are no words. I simply sit quietly in awe of him and the love that he has. The young guy that I married who has turned into this man that I know now, its just breathtaking. My Savior being first and foremost, there is no person I hold more dear
or appreciate more than my husband. I simply cannot put into words. Cards, poetry, they all help with getting those words out, but I simply cannot get out the feelings and words I have in my heart.

We've had a journey. Ups, downs, like everybody else. Seeing how God used those things to make our marriage as it is today, I stand amazed. If I could have looked into a magic crystal ball and saw the love we have now, way back then.....I would swear the crystal ball was lying. I thought at the young age of 20, that I knew what love was.

But, have I been taught otherwise.

Its those battles you fight. Its the scars you have. Its the fights and the feeling of wanting to give up. You can never imagine how love can be discovered in those areas. And just when you think you know..........

..........it gets deeper.
 When you think that your love could not get any deeper............
...........it does.

We never know what our journey holds next.

But together,

we're gonna go far Baby!

James Horace Sellers................................

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