This Is a Great Day

I know it is also a sad day, remembering some terrible things. There are only so many days in the calendar, so I think it's appropriate to be happy for some reason on each one of them, even if there are anniversaries that are sad, too.

Now, every day is a great day. We are alive in a beautiful world. But for me, today is one of those days of all days.

Twenty-two years ago today, I woke up very early and very wound-up. It was my wedding day!

I was thinking yesterday of the hilarious schedule we followed that day. We were sealed early, and then for some silly reason, Jenni and I were left alone to put our stuff in our car before meeting back up with our wedding party for the breakfast.

We came || close to just running away.



But we managed to hold on. Went to lunch, thanked everyone for their support and drove off.

There are a lot of things that happen, that have to happen for a wedding to succeed. A lot of choices to make. One of the things I am most pleased with was our decision to put off the wedding reception for several days, so we could just get away as soon as the wedding was over and not spend the day exhausting ourselves .

So what did we do with out free time? We went BACK to the temple!

Is that a metaphor, or what?

After spending the morning in the Salt Lake Temple, we drove 2 and a half hours to Manti, and there did another endowment session. I mean, that was us, it was me, and it still sounds unbearably, nearly insufferably pious to ME. But I am glad we did it.

It matters to us. We married in the temple because it matters to us. We went to the temple again because making it a priority matters to us. I can point to our wedding picture, hanging in our home, and the temple is in the background. Going to the temple was a choice that will resonate for the rest of our existance. It is something we still honor by going regularly as a part of our 20-plus years of marriage.



We finished our session in Manti and checked into the Manti House. We spent one night there, and then drove down to Zion’s Park and camped one night.

For our anniversary tonight, we took the kids out to our favorite Chinese Buffet. I leaned across the table and whispered to Jennilyn, indicating our kids on either side of us, "We did this."

Happy Anniversary to us!