50th Anniversary Celebration

To celebrate Pat & Sherry's 50th Wedding anniversary officially, the adults drove up to Santa Monica to spend the night. We went out to dinner that night.

The next morning we rented bikes and rode along the boardwalk. The weather was perfect and we had a really good time. I had never been to Santa Monica before so it was all new to me!

We walked along the pier, got a funnel cake and did a little people watching. We even spotted Kalen from this season's show The Bachelorette. Kurt totally wanted to talk to him but I convinced him not to! 

Sherry showing off her new Tiffany ring. 

What a fun weekend we had celebrating together!

More Beach Week

During beach week we were able to celebrate two very important things that happened on June 28----Pat & Sherry's 50th wedding anniversary and the 2-year anniversary of Pat's passing. Christy got 50 gold helium balloons and we all wrote messages to Pat & Sherry. It was a really fun thing to watch! Those balloons stayed all clumped together until we almost couldn't see them anymore. I think everyone really enjoyed the happiness it brought to Sherry. We sure love her and know how much she misses Pat--as we all do. 

Anniversary

19 years ago yesterday Kurt and I were married. I don't feel old enough to have been married that long! Time has certainly flown by. How lucky I am to be married to my best friend. I am looking forward to the next 19! Love you Kurt.

18 Years!-Part 2

Hangin' out in the lobby of Deseret Towers

Our constant companion and chaperone, Scott Wares

Sam Hall Spring Formal 1988 in St. George

Kappa Spring Formal 1988

More dorm fun!

So the story continues.........

After our first date, we started to spend more and more time together. We would sit by each other in class and even walk to class together. About this time, Kurt started Sam Hall Pledge so he was not allowed to see me unless it was a club sponsored activity. So we would have to meet after curfew at various places around campus----mostly the tunnels near the Marriott Center. By this time, I was hooked! He was all I could think about. I was sick thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas vacation knowing we wouldn't be spending as much time together. I don't think we saw each other during either of those school breaks. I remember talking to him on New Year's Eve while I was hanging out with my friends and the Holmberg's.

After we started winter semester we were only dating each other. It was such a fun time in our lives---carefree and non-stop fun (with a little studying in between!).

A few weeks into the semester, Kurt told me he was leaving for a few days to go waterskiing with his friend Dave Pearson. I was sick! He was literally only gone for maybe 4 days but I thought I was going to die! I was wandering around like a lost puppy. When he came home, he told me that he had gotten his mission call. I was so shocked because he had never even said one thing about turning in his papers or anything. I figured he would go on a mission but was surprised that he hadn't talked about it at all. It was then that I got a little dose of reality. I realized that our freshman year was not going to last forever.

In February of that year, during a school break, we went to San Diego with Mike Huish, Finn Jensen and some other friends. Mike's family was so nice to let us stay at their house. We went to Disneyland, Tijuana and the beach. Kurt paid for everything that whole trip. I was so embarrassed that he would pay for me! He was so sweet and fun. I have such great memories of that trip.

18 YEARS!

This is how we looked when we started school fall semester of our freshman year!

Today is our 18 year anniversary! I seriously cannot believe we have been married that long. Even though it is so close to Christmas, Kurt and I usually make it a point to go somewhere at least overnight. We usually finish up any Christmas shopping we have to do. This year we stayed in Salt Lake. It was pretty uneventful! We didn't even go someplace special for dinner.

For many years we would eat dinner at the Ristorante Della Fontana. When we very first met in high school, we went to junior prom and ate at that restaurant. However, we weren't on a date with each other! I was with Shane Kelson and Kurt was with some other girl. So, anyway, it was a fun tradition for us to eat there every year. Unfortunately they closed the restaurant quite a few years ago.

I remember when I met Kurt our junior year I could not get past the hair! His hair was pretty big back then and I was not attracted to him at all. But I would notice him at football and basketball games through the last year of high school. Then, on the first day of school our freshman year at BYU, I was in the bookstore with my friend Gina. We were standing in line to buy some textbooks and I looked across the way and noticed Kurt. I immediately knew who he was and, though the hair was still big, it was big in a good way! What a difference a year had made. He walked over by us and I think I said something to him. He remembered me and we talked for a minute. As it turns out, we were both living in DT and we both had freshman biology. We would run into each other in the Morris Center and on the way to and from class.

Our first official date was on September 27, 1987. It was the Sam Hall Cowboy Party. I was so nervous. We had hung out a little before that but I was so scared to be on an official date. I don't remember much of the date other than Kurt rode a mechanical bull at the party and cut his finger. When I got home from the date, I noticed that I had blood all over the sleeves of my shirt from his finger.