A Texas Love Story

Once upon a time, a young girl and a young boy met in Latin class in seventh grade.

They fell in love and started dating at age 14...

dated through high school.

Here they are at age 15.

And here they are at age 18.

They went off to college together and talked about getting married one day,

perhaps after they graduated. Fate had other plans though, and they got pregnant.

So, at age 19, they got engaged.

And, quickly began planning a wedding.

and here they are opening wedding gifts at her parents' house.

And here's the young, pregnant bride, writing lots and lots of Thank-You notes.

And, here's the bride at a kitchen shower thrown in her honor.

Everyone had to wear hats, so the bride chose to wear her veil as her "hat."
She opened gifts, discovering utensils and gadgets she'd never used or even heard of!

And, then they had wedding portraits done.

The bride was battling severe morning sickness as she wore her wedding gown in the Texas heat, posing in the flora for hours. But, she smiled. :o)

The bride and her mother threw together a large wedding in two months.

And by the end of the summer, there was a wedding.

And, they left the church a married couple, in horse-drawn carriages,

to head just a few blocks to the reception site.

This wedding was twelve years ago, yesterday.

Happy Anniversary, Texas Home Boy.

I love you.