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Posted by granny h on September 02, 2009 at 07:34:24 from (76.201.93.220):
31 years ago today at around 7:13pm I came out of the church bathroom, nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs and said, "I do". It was my 2nd marriage, the first ended when I decided that a life of being a punching bag was just not gonna work. Unlike my first marriage, that was full of everything proper and expensive (LOL) ol Vern and I decided to just have fun and share the event with a small bunch of friends and family...no big fancy wedding, no big fancy meal, dresses or limo. Instead we got married in church, then did the customary in our area ride around town honking horns and acting goofy...So after the wedding we rode the "loop" like we did as kids and then headed out to his parents farm, where a pig was roasted. Mother n law was catering wedding cakes at the time and had a very pretty tall wedding cake set up on the table for us. We left later that night on the back of his 750 honda in a cloud of dust and rice. now for the "rest of the story" as Paul Harvey use to say. It was the day of the wedding and still no dress, no flowers ect...his sister, who had allready married my brother, went with me shopping. She got a fall colored dress and I got a cream colored street length dress and matching shoes..we made a quick stop at the local flower shop for some silk flowers that we just grabed and taped up together. .. like I said, nothing fancy. ol Vern on the other hand who was intending to wear jeans had his mind changed..LOL by his mom...she made him go buy a suit much to his dismay. No rehearsel was needed...we'd just "walk in". First Deb and then my niece, who was 3 at the time. I speak of her often here, Cyndi, the young women whose little girl is named after mom, Baby Delores....welp, Cyndi was bawling all the time...cried walking in at the top of her lungs. LOL... Vern's best man, in a rush to get to the church, had slamed his thumb in his truck door, so there he stood with a big ol ugly hanky wrapped around his thumb to stop the bleeding. LOL...we did not look like your typical wedding party. My father n law said the hem of my skirt tail was shaking...ol Vern? calm as could be..but I was thinking a mile a minute and was just not sure till after I said, "I do"...and like a water falcet, Cyndi stopped crying. Dennis was 5 yrs old then, he sat with my mom and dad... I had only dated Vern 3 weeks when he popped the question...old fashioned, down on one knee in the back yard of the old farm he grew up on...my first responce to him?..."are you kidding me?"...and then said, "well.....um....yes!" That was 31 yrs ago...he has raised Dennis like his very own...from day one. We went on to have two more sons, CV and Joshua...we lost Joshua to Spinal Bifida at 15 months in 1985....Now we have a grandson...we've lived in 6 homes and ol Vern has showed me an Ocean and the Rocky Mountains and state after state from the back of his Harley. He's been there through the cancer, the pain, the hurt and the tears. We've been poor and we've been rich.. but most of all we've been together, no matter what life has thrown at us ever sense 7:13pm Sept 2nd 1978. and......we'd do it all over again. -granny h
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