CANCUN! (preliminary pics)

This place is even better than it looks! We just returned home in the middle of the night last night (so thankful for safe flights for us to and from Cancun and for the boys to and from Michigan!! - also SO thankful for grandparents who helped make this possible!), and I wanted to get some pictures up here quickly. Only the pics from the digital camera are available to me right now, so I grabbed 15 of the 400+ to slap up here quickly. I hope to fill in a few details with writing and put up a few more pics over the next week.

Stay tuned!

Hello from the Palace!

Greetings from Cancun - Hotel Riu Palace Las Americanas! What a great place to celebrate our 20th anniversary.

I am eager to put up photos but can't do so yet, so I have created links to online photos of where we are and have been - although photos cannot do any of this justice. This place is better than I ever could have dreamed!!!

Yesterday we toured Chichen Itza, which is MAGNIFICENT! The history is amazing, and the site itslelf is indescribable. It is on the list being considered for the official 7 wonders of the modern world, and with good reason!! (If you click on the link to check this out, click on the map of the site to see pictures of the items.)

Tomorrow we jet ski out to a coral reef and will be snorkling, a first for both of us.

I will put up photos as soon as I can, but I'm afraid it will be hard to choose which ones of the hundreds we've taken to put up, and, as I said, the photos don't do it justice anyway.

Warm Caribbean greetings and best wishes to you all!!

Modern Love Poem

David, although I know your style of poetry is much different from mine, on this special day I send this poem to you - written by e. e. cummings but coming from my heart.

I love you!

i am so glad and very
merely my fourth will cure
the laziest self of weary
the hugest sea of shore

so far your nearness reaches
a lucky fifth of you
turns people into eachs
and cowards into grow

our can'ts were born to happen
our mosts have died in more
our twentieth will open
wide a wide open door

we are so both and oneful
night cannot be so sky
sky cannot be so sunful
i am through you so i

Kid Quote

Tonight we ate out at Applebees to celebrate the end of school. In looking at an old movie poster that was part of the nostalgic decor, David said, "Is that Mickey Rooney?" Our son Jacob replied:

He must be famous; I've never heard of him.

CELEBRATION!!!

This month David and I celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary.

THANK YOU

to all friends and family who have supported us during these 20 years so filled with the variety of life experience - times of joy and sorrow, loss and blessing, work and play, sickness and health, parenting, and everything else that has been part of the journey.

Part of my way of celebrating is to post pictures representing our 20 years.

DATING/COLLEGE

WEDDING

HONEYMOON

NEWLYWEDS

PARENTHOOD

RENEWAL / 15th ANNIVERSARY