Twenty-third Wedding Anniversary!

Today is my hubby and I's 23rd Wedding Anniversary! Wow, does time ever fly by!

I had just graduated college in December, and he had just been PCSed with the Army to West Berlin. We did have to go ahead and get married by a Justice of the Peace, back in November '86, so that the paperwork could be started for me, so that Mike could have me brought overseas right away, and could look for housing for us. We continued to plan our wedding, which was to take place on February 28th. It took some doing, but we were lucky his 1st Sergeant was a great Texas guy, so he let my hubby have leave, so soon after arriving in West Berlin. My mother was really sweating bullets over that one. LOL! Mike arrived safe and sound though, in time for the wedding.

We had a beautiful Nuptial Mass, with three priests concelebrating. I had the priest that baptised me, Monsignor McManus, the priest that had concelebrated at my Confirmation (and our previous parish priest) Father O'Callaghan, and our parish priest at the time, Father Vance. It was such a lovely Mass. Many of my dear old great-aunts were saying it was the most Catholic wedding they had been to in years. That meant a lot to me, as that is what I really wanted.

So, now we fast-forward to today, 23 years and two beautiful children later, and we are so blessed! Our 14 year old daughter and 10 year old son are doing everything they can to make our day special today. We wouldn't dream of celebrating it without them.