Our 47th Wedding Anniversary

I remember being married for 5 years and thinking that Art's sister having been married 10 years was such a long time.

It's rather amazing for me to think that we're nearing our 50th wedding anniversary. Where have the years gone?

We got married in January, 1973, less than a year and a half after we met. This top photo was taken the morning of our wedding.

Art was always pretty confident about us. In fact, he proposed on January 1st which was about 4 months after we met.

When I called to tell mom the following day that I would be getting married she asked, "What? To who?"

She was ecstatic and said she was hoping I would end up with him, but didn't want to put any pressure on me for fear I'd do the opposite.

As the years passed I realize how very lucky I've been. Whenever there was a problem, he was the one who strategized a solution. When I was afraid, he was the one to encourage me to face my fears.

And when mom asked us to come home to Hawaii to be with her after my father passed away, Art was the one who took the steps to make it all possible.

After all these years, you can see why mom was so happy about Art and I getting married because he's certainly come through for her in her later years.

We celebrated our wedding anniversary with mom at a Korean restaurant and marveled at all that has happened in our decades together.

Art says he's coming up with plans for what we'll do on our 50th.

An adventure he says...

Hoo boy!