Thursday, March 5, 2009

Happy Birthday Honey!

This post is about my amazing, fantastic, sweet, caring, hard-working, loving husband!


It's filled with some very random and kind of old pictures but they tell the story of us!
This is what he looked like when I first met him.
I like muscley men and look at those strong masculine hands. I loved the afro and the car was cute too!
Our first date was a girls choice High School dance. I wrote to him through most of his mission and we were married three months after he returned. He went to school at USU and I went to beauty school (I needed it) We had our first two children there and moved to California where he worked at McDonnell Douglas aircraft and we had our third child (See old post for Laynie) We moved back to Cedar City for five years as a stepping stone to get here in South Weber.
We love spending time together and have gone on some of the greatest hikes in the world! It gets us away from everything else and usually out of cell phone range.

We love kissing
This is on the West rim hike at Zion

He always has cool tricks.
He makes a great seal!

He loves to work in the yard and one year grew a 300 lb. pumkin.
It made a great Budah for Halloween


Here is our family a few years ago. See how little CJ is?
Not anymore! but he still looks like his Dad.

Aww! Now it's us taking a little walk on the beach on the Oregon coast last summer.

D has always made the most rediculous faces. This one is famous.
(I hate it but it's so much a part of him).

He always has a project or seven going on.
This winter it has been a beautiful redwood canoe.
Now he expects me to go on a three day canoe trip.
(we shall see)
Here is a man who likes working with his hands and can build or fix just about anything. He never really enjoyed school but pushed himself through for his family. He has worked hard and taught his children well and been the greatest example in the world of a great Priesthood holder and loving husband and father. I couldn't have found a better husband and I want to spend FOREVER with him!

4 comments:

Joni said...

Those are some great pictures. The first one looks like Braden so much. I especially like the one of you both on the beach. It's a great shot.

Happy Birthday Daren!

Cloves said...

Yeah, I think that first picture looks just like Braden.

Fun Post.

Blake and Sheralle said...

Margie, We saw your comment on Crystals blog so we visited your sight. What a neat wife to pay such a great tribute to your husband. We just can't get over how much Braden looks like him. The whole family wants to know how Braden is doing and when he will get back. We hope things are going well for all of you.

Lara said...

How sweet! You are a lucky woman! I pretty sure I don't deserve such a wonderful husband but I have one too. Lucky!