Happy Anniversary to Us!!

Today is our 26th wedding anniversary! On Dec 26, 1982 ... Mitch had graduated from college and had been working in banking for just 6 months. I had just finished my last semester of college and would be starting my student teaching assignment in early January. So we squeezed a wedding and honeymoon inbetween semesters.

We had a very small and simple wedding in the chapel of Mitch's church, with a cake and punch reception in the fellowship hall. All of our friends at the time had big weddings with catered dinners and bands ... and at the time, it felt like we were doing something a whole lot less and exciting than they were. But we paid for our own wedding and honeymoon, and the budget of two 22 year olds was tight! Mitch wore a suit and not a tux, I wore a borrowed wedding dress, instead of buying flowers we used the poinsettias still in the church from Christmas, and there were no fancy wedding albums or videos of the day.

Today, the way our wedding ceremony and reception happened are no longer important ... what is important is that we have had 26 good years that have brought our children into our lives. Hard to believe it has been 26 years!