Debbie is organizing our family photos. In doing so she ran across these.
Funny, as time passes, you notice in the mirror your hair turning a "little" gray, a "few" wrinkles and more than a few extra pounds, but you really don't see yourself as having changed all that much. But when you see an old picture and a more recent picture side by side, you think, "when did we get old".
I remember how Debbie and I met, or at least the first time I saw her, but not exactly when. It had to have been in the 7th or 8th grade, so it was 1968 or 1969, and it was on the church bus. She went to church with a friend of hers. As she got onto the bus, I do remember thinking how pretty she was.
We didn't actually begin to date until we were Juniors in high school. Before that, ironically we played man and wife in a church play and all through junior high, until we began dating we were friends. And of course, we have stayed friends.
I have said before that I wish I could write poetry and put it to music. If I could I would love to write songs like the one at the end of this post. But I can't so I enjoy the gift of music others provide to me.
Senior Pictures - 1973
Is it any wonder I thought she was beautiful.
Look at all that DARK, curly hair.
Our church didn't believe in dancing so we didn't attend our school proms, but they held a Junior-Senior banquet. We were voted King and Queen in our Junior year. The picture on the left was of us before the banquet. The picture on the right was taken on Sanibel Island, which has become our spot. I don't think we have aged too badly.As the song says; "Look at you, still pretty as a picture. Look at me, still crazy over you"...
I love you baby. Thanks for sticking with me for all these years. Sorry for all of the "for worse" you have had to endure.
"Look At Us" by Vince Gill/Max D. Barnes
Look at us
After all these years together
Look at us
After all that we've been through
Look at us
Still leaning on each other
If you want to see
How true love should be
then just look at us
Look at you
Still pretty as a picture
look at me
Still crazy over you
Look at us
Still believin' in forever
Look at us
After all these years together
Look at us
After all that we've been through
Look at us
Still leaning on each other
In a hundred years from now
I know without a doubt
They'll all look back and wonder how
We made it all work out
Chances are
We'll go down in history
When they want to see
How true love should be
They'll just look at us
