Today Dan and I spend another anniversary apart. It’s our 14th. He asked me to marry him only a week after dating and I said yes. This is the first photo ever taken of us together. We were engaged for about a week and had gone up to my visit my family in NH and my Aunt took this snapshot. We were in an Army school together at Ft. Devens (closed now, but it was about an hour west of Boston). We got married by a JP in Annapolis, Md. almost exactly two months after we met with just a couple of witnesses. We just knew. Everyone else thought we were nuts (except our families – they seemed to know it would work). Like a lot of military couples we had two weddings. The JP one was to get the paperwork rolling so we could be stationed together (I was at NSA in Maryland and he was in San Antonio). It only took the Army about two months to get the paperwork through and I moved to San Antonio on Thanksgiving weekend. The picture below left is us after the JP marriage on the courthouse steps and the one below right is a photo from the big church wedding that we had for family almost a year later at the Ft. Sam Houston chapel in San Antonio. No laughing at the poodle-do please. Even Oprah had bad do’s and she had someone doing her hair.
I think I picked the right guy. Even from Afghanistan, he has managed to do well in the gift department:
The Celtic Knot arrived for my birthday back in May and the Midnight Sky one arrived yesterday. They’re getting to know him very well at Golding Fiber Tools! Let me tell you… these babies spin FOREVER! Beautiful to look at and so nice to work with. The fiber is some that I hand dyed last year.
Last but not least, I have done some knitting during my hiatus. A bunch of us on the Elann chat site had a knit-a-long for the Bed and Breakfast sweater from 2003 Winter issue of Interweave. I have most of the back done and most of the front. I cheated and just did the rib pattern on the back. It wasn’t laziness … I swear…. it wasn’t…. it was simply a matter of comfort. I thought it’d be weird on my back with those cables. You call it a weak excuse but I call it practicality. The color is a darker green. Not so grey as it came out in the photo.
Dan’s uncle was released from the hospital today for three months of rest at home! Yeah! Thank you for all your well wishes and prayers.
Happy Anniversary, Jean!!
I’m so sorry that you and Dan are apart. I hope you will do something special for yourself today. Thanks for posting your wedding pix and such. What a good story. Doug and I decided to get married after dating for only one week too. We got married a year later. He was only 19, and I was 20 when we got engaged. Looking back I think we were crazy, but at the time, we just knew it would be fine, and it has been wonderful. I think it’s three more days gone since the last time I wrote you. Beautiful drop spindles, by the way….the man has TASTE.
Your cable work is wonderful. I think cabling is one of my favorite things to do.
Jean,
Happy Anniversary! I love that pic of you and Dan. I’m also glad that your Uncle is doing better.
Libby
Happy Anniversary!! I know that you are at least together in your thoughts.
Oh, no, I am making fun of that poodle hair, because I had the exact same ‘do. Yikes! After a while, the anniversaries become less important-it’s the staying together that’s the event. Congratulations. The spindle is beautiful!
Happy Anniversary Jean and Dan! When you know it is right, you just KNOW. And how sweet that he understands your passion, and loves you for it all the more! That is love! Your pictures are beautiful. By the way, I always wondered what they were talking about with the B & B! The back looks great! I may have to check out that pattern.
Happy Anniversary, Jean! Gosh, you were (and are) a beautiful couple, poodle-do or not! Your B&B is looking good, I like the lack of fuzziness which mine in HW is prone to do. Yummy looking hand-dyed & spun yarn…I didn’t know that spinning tools could be done so beautifully, what a thoughtful gift from your guy.
Happy Anniversary, you two! You give me hope… and I didn’t know a spindle could be so very beautiful, let alone two of them.
I love the B&B sweater, what yarn are you using?
all the best,
caroline
What a wonderful day for you and Dan! I’ve been thinking of you a lot, as I’ve lurked and looked at all your trip photos. It’ll be the best day ever when everyone is back together and living the life you started together way back when. Lots of love to you, Dan, and the boys.
Congratulations to you and Dan – and to the boys as well. I love the first photo of the two of you together. You look so at ease with each other.
Cate
Happy Anniversary! Beautiful pictures. 🙂
Happy Anniversary!
Your cables are beautiful. They really pop in that yarn.
Happy Anniversary to you!
Happy Anniversary, Jean and Dan. I’m not surprised you two knew it was right from the beginning. Your love for each other shines through, Jean. And yeah, the actual day is not what’s important – it’s the way you love the time you have together.
Oh, can you get Dan to email Thom come birthday/anniversary time at our house. ;-}
Happy Anniversary! Dan is a great guy, look at those beauties! I love that sweater you’re doing. It’s one that been on my list, but always forget about it. Can’t wait to see yours!
Happy anniversary! My husband and I (together 14 years also) didn’t get married right off, but I moved in with him 6 weeks after we started dating and everyone thought we were crazy. We probably were. But sometimes you just know.
Beautiful spindles; that’s a good gift giver. 🙂
Great cables!
Beautiful pictures of a very beautiful couple. Congratulations on your anniversary. I love the spindles Dan sent. Prayers, of course.. ..
Happy Anniversary! Wishing you and Dan many more years of happiness. Love those spindles!
Happy Anniversary!!!
Yep sometimes you just know that it is the right one.Two weeks after hubby and I met he ask me to marry him and I just knew he was the one. Hope you have many many many more years together in health and happiness.
Happy anniversary! It’s too bad that you have to be apart, but that’s life in the Army, right? Even being downrange, he certainly came through for you in the gift department! Beautiful spindles.
Congratualtions!! May this be your last anniversary apart. A man who buys spindles for his wife is a very wise and caring man. Nice work finding him!
Happy anniversary !
Wishing you many more. He obviously loves you very much !
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Awwww…happy anniversary! Sometimes you just plain know. Dan and I were absolutely sure from the start as well, and here we are 12 years later :-). Wishing you many more happy years together.
Happy Anniversary!!!!!!!!! I swear, we must be sisters in a different life…LOL. Ken and I will be celebrating our 13th next year, and most people thought ours would never last either, but we still get along better ever 🙂
I will say though, when you all get home, I want Dan to tell Ken how he goes about shopping for a fiber wife…haha!!
Happy Happy!!
Wow! Happy Anniversary! And what gorgeous cable work. A lot of people (myself included) have similar stories; love at first sight, engaged within weeks, married within months… I agree, when you know, you just know! Congrats and hope Dan gets to come home soon!
Happy Anniversary, Jean! Dan did hit a homerun in the present department — beautiful! I am also celebrating my 14th anniversary this fall.
Happy Anniversary, Jean! Dan did hit a homerun in the present department — beautiful! I am also celebrating my 14th anniversary this fall.
Happy Anniversary Jean and Dan! Love all of those pictures! And the Midnight Sky spindle is stunning. Hugs to you.
Happy Anniversary!! The golding spindle is GORGEOUS! I wanted one, but I can’t justify it until my spinning gets better.
The sweater is beautiful as well.
Happy Anniversary!
My husband and I were together for about a month when we decided we should get married. We’ve just had our 11th anniversary in March. Hey, if you know it’s right! I love your pictures!
Oh how I loooove your drop spindles!!
Oh, Happy Anniversary to both of you. You guys look great together. And yes, he is a good gift buyer!
Happy belated anniversary! I never get tired of seeing your “Oh Mighty Isis” wedding headpiece. Tee hee! (I can tease you because you know I wore a wedding dress with a big-ass bow on the butt.) Congrats always to you and Dan.
Hey, did you have to play with the gauge on the back when you just did ribbing? Or did the measurement come out okay and match up to the front cabling piece? That’s one of the many patterns “on my list” of things to knit. Birch is still languishing on the needles, btw…
Happy belated anniversary!! I love happy stories such as yours. 🙂
That sweater is gorgeous!!
I have tried finding that issue of Interweave, but have been unsuccessful. Is that pattern hard to master? It only took me a few tries to master double-cable.
The. Cutest. Photos. Ever.