Anniversary and UNC in the Title Game. . .

I am married to the very best man on the planet with the exception of my daddy and father in law.  I had not forgotten our anniversary but I did not have anything for my very sweet hubby today and he had not forgotten and even had gifts for me this morning.   I am one lucky lady.  He got me a new rosemary plant that I have been wanting since mine died a couple years ago and chocolate.   He also gave me a very sweet card, he took great pride in the fact that he had something planned and I did not.  Usually it is the other way around.
These twenty four years have flown by, it seems like yesterday we were preparing to go on our honeymoon.   We spent a week in Ft. Lauderdale with a day trip to Key West.  We had a blast eating fresh seafood and enjoying all the sites.  The drive to Key West was awesome and oh how I loved the conch fritters.  We went to the Mel Fisher museum in Key West that has some of the treasure on display from the Atochia that Mel Fisher discovered off the coast in 1984.  My mom and dad were there when they were bringing it all ashore  that day in 1984. It was really neat being able to see some of the treasure from his discovery.  Another win for the hubbs, he gave me a silver coin from the Atochia for my wedding gift and arranged the day trip to Key West to visit the museum.
I laugh and tell people we had to get married when we did, we had to plan our wedding around the NCAA tournament.  My mom and dad went to every tournament NCAA and ACC for as long as I can remember up till the last fifteen years.  My dad is a State grad and  they are big State fans still. My lease was up at the end of March and we had a very short window between my lease ending and the start of the tournament.  Not only would my mom and dad not be there but my hubby would not have any groomsmen either.  The groomsmen were all huge UNC fans. While we were in Florida the final game was played and it just so happens we were out to eat at a local bar and grill and of course they had the game on over the bar.  The hubbs and I did not care about the game, we are not Carolina fans.   We ended up sitting at the bar to eat and you will never guess but another Carolinian end up at the bar and he was a Carolina fan.  The bar tender assumed we were also Carolina fans and I proceeded to tell him that not everyone that lives in North Carolina is a fan of UNC.  North Carolina does have a couple other really good colleges.   Hence my title for this post.

Anniversaries. . .

My wonderful parents celebrated their sixty first wedding anniversary this month and my dear hubby and I celebrated twenty-three years earlier this year.   Someone at Church asked my Dad about their anniversary and he said, "I have been married all of my life."  My Dad is such a comedian.   My parents are both very funny and you can tell when you are around them that they really do love each other very much.   They have both been through their share of trials and tribulations.   I hope that the hubbs and I will last as long.   We argue and fight but I think that is just part of sharing a life with someone else.   Our biggest fights came when we bought our first house and then again when we bought the house we are in now.   These were very big decisions in our married life, I felt like if there was ever something to argue over these were two legitimate ones.   A few years after we bought our first house the hubbs sister ran into our real estate agent and he asked if we were still married.  I had to laugh we had only been married eight months before we bought our first house.   We had definitive ideas on what we wanted in a home and they did  differ just a little.  We were in our first house for twelve years before we bought the house we are in now.   The same agent helped us buy our second house too.  We will probably be in this one till we die, we have a big backyard.  Just kidding.  I think we will be here till we move to the beach.  Big T has already said he is going to live at the beach when he gets out of college.  I told Big T that he had to have an extra room for me.  The only thing Sprat has said is that he does not want to live where it is cold.   He may have dreams of the beach too.

Celebrating >>>>????<<<<>>>><<<>>>><<<>>>

My dear hubby and I are celebrating 20 wonderful years this week.  I am so very lucky to have such a wonderful man to call my; best friend, lover, and soul mate.  I can hardly believe that it has actually been 20 years, it does not seem that long at all.   I wonder some days if when our kids are gone will we have any thing in common.  Then he comes home talking about taking me out on the boat fishing or going to the beach to go fishing.  We both love to fish, I just have not been able to as much since the kids.  Since we have been watching the NCAA tournament we have been remembering our honeymoon.  Hubby laughs at the fact we "had" to get married when we did.  My parents are huge State fans and all of our friends are fans of either State or UNC.  In order to have even my parents at our wedding we "had" to get married on that day because of the various games.  We watched the final game in Florida at a bar and  grill on the inlet.  

Then

Now.