24th anniversary!

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

Wow, today my husband

and I are celebrating our 24th anniversary

. We have been together 35 years in all (we lived together for 11 years before we married) and I can hardly believe we made it so long. Through good times and bad, there have been plenty of both, we are a team and it seems we made the right choice all those years ago. I remember when I was a child going to my grandparents silver wedding anniversary (25 years) and wondering how they stayed married so long. Now here we are only a year off (or well past if you count the years before we made it legal) and I still have no answers to how a couple can have a lasting and happy marriage. I just consider myself one of the lucky ones

 

[Riverrose28]

Congratulations! My hubby and I have been married for 36 years, second time around for both of us. It only gets better!

 

[barnbum]

Congrats!!

I thought it was funny when we passed that been with you more than half my life year--we'll be 27 years in Dec.

 

[rimmerpaints]

congrats and happy anniversary

 

[chandab]

My grandparents were married for 50 years, I remember celebrating the anniversary when I was a kid; one of the amazing things (well amazing to me, anyway)... It was grandma's second marriage.

 

[Tab]

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary!

 

[Charley]

Happy Anniversary!

 

[SampleMM]

Wow, that is a big accomplishment in today's world!

I hope you had a wonderful anniversary!!

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

Thank you every one. We had a lovely evening with our son and his girlfriend. I made a roast and we sat around the table and talked, laughed and just enjoyed ourselves. I hope to look back on the next 25 with as many memories to share with the very same people.

My grandparents were married for 50 years, I remember celebrating the anniversary when I was a kid; one of the amazing things (well amazing to me, anyway)... It was grandma's second marriage.

Wow!! That is down right inspiring.

 

[Taylor Richelle]

Congrats! Also Happy Anniversary!!!!!

 

[heartkranch]

congrats!

 

[a mini dream come true]

Congratulations!!

Hubby and I celebrated our 40 yr this year.

Where did the years go?

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

Congratulations!!

Hubby and I celebrated our 40 yr this year.

Where did the years go?

Isn't that the truth (altho I must say I salute you...40 years !

...well done.). Seems only yesterday we were kids just starting out... Now our own kids aren't 'kids' anymore, they are both grown and starting their own journeys. I hope they are as lucky as we were in the person they choose to make a life with.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Happy Anniversary and congratulations!

This year is #40 for us. We were married when I was 17 and he was 19.

It's a little easier now after all these years to live with someone from another planet, but still a challenge.

 

[Davie]

Congratulations. Mine made it almost 15. My parents were lucky enough to have celebrated 56 before my mother passed away. It was his first and her second.

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

Thanks for the congrats. I agree Marsha, it does get easier with time. You learn to put up with their alien ways and they with ours lol.

Davie, I hope I am still happily wed to this man after 56 years. I said I wanted a lifetime with him an after all these years I still do.

 

[REO]

Congrats!!!!

Me & hubby had our 24th this year too!

3 roses from 7-11 and a JOP before they left for the day, no family or friends. He was in jeans.

I had waited all these years dearly wanting the wedding we never had for our 25th, but it won't happen. Being together is what matters.

Maybe we'll get to eat out or something.

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

Well congratulations to you too REO. As time goes on you do learn to accept that they love you even without the big romantic gestures (I sympathize there lol) But it is really the day to day little things that count anyway and I was happy to stay home and cook the meal and just enjoy our time together. And every now and again they surprise you with something truly loving/romantic. Sometimes its just hard to not feel silly for wanting that tho... Maybe you can find a way to plan it for next year on a small scale (?) Just the 2 of you, dressed up and reading your own hand written vows to each other in a special location? Then some pictures afterwards? I don't know, for me the intimacy of sharing with just each other would make it special but then I really would have happily eloped (don't like crowds or being the center of attention) if we weren't both the youngest and last of both families to marry. It meant alot to our parents so we just went with it... church and all

 

[REO]

Oh hubby is a sweetie!

I don't let him buy me flowers and stuff. He wants me to have anything I want! All our funds go towards feeding my babies, so my dream gown etc isn't in the cards. But I am planning on saving lil bits $ here & there so we can maybe to something special (we don't go out to eat like other people do.) I know that even if we can't have the big "do", we'll be together and can have a small "do" together.

Anything we do together will be special.

 

[Reignmaker Miniatures]

Awww, thats how I am too. We eat out far more than I expect to but I'm always perfectly happy to stay home together or go for a drive some where just to see the scenery. When it comes down to it I'd usually rather spend the extra when there is any on something for the horses (new harness, new blanket etc. ) or on the house since we are still trying to finish the house (we moved here in 2003 but it was in need of lots of work, we are getting there a bit at a time) or better yet sock it away for a rainy day (more rain than socks tho lol)