It All Started with This Slip of Paper

It all started with this slip of paper.
He asked for my number & address ... & if I'd sit by him on Friday nt =)
{We were at a youth camp & on Friday nt, the guys & girls could sit together.}
This was in 1989.

I said yes ... & as you can see, I gave him my number & address ...
& added, quite directly I might add, WRITE ME!  ;)

and

we wrote ... and wrote ... and wrote.
I still have every.single.one of those treasured cards & letters. 


With Valentine's Day being tomorrow, I guess you could say I'm just taking a stroll down memory lane.
That's alright, isn't it?
See, our first 'date' was to a Valentine's Banquet.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

I wasn't allowed to date til I was 16 
{we actually didn't have our first date, just the two of us til I was 17}, we did however,
go to a Valentine's Banquet with my church ... our first Valentine's Day together.

Look at how young & IN LOVE we were <3

I still have this dress, gloves, his boutineer, & my corsage.

We've now spent 24 Valentine's Days together & I am more in love now than ever!
Thank you, God, for Your sovereign plan that led us to each other.