My dear, these pages have been made just for you. I hope that you are pleased with them. I have wanted to do something like this for a long time now, but I did not have the time, or the knowledge.

I have always been so proud of you, and the abilities and knowledge you have demonstrated all through the time that I have been part of your life. You have always been talented craft wise, and the beautiful pages that you have made; your own, for me, and for others, clearly demonstrates this.

The very first time we met, you touched me somewhere deep inside, and even though I would not admit it at first, I knew that you were that "special someone" that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. We have had great times, together, and we have had some bad times that we worked through, together.

A poem that I wrote for you last year best expresses my thoughts at this time. I Love You, Hon...SHMILY, 1 4 3, and 34.12!



River
As years flow by like a river,
the love we shared in the beginning
deepens, and the current slows
Long distance, time and many bends
have calmed the furious early pace,
gentled the turbulent starting course set by us, together
Allowing us to share....to value the changing
vistas of our life
So many things divert the course we see ahead,
as we stream tween life and the unalterable fact of death
We gather in, together, so many memories; some good, some bad,
and carry them along with us
Our love allowing us to share, and bear, the burden of them all
Our first kiss
The first time that we made love
Our children....we both shared the making
and the raising of them all
Our first house....we finally could afford
How poor, yet how rich we always seemed to be
Our fights and arguments that we tried to make up for
As the river of our love grows and widens,
we find the burdens easier to bear....to share
We see that underlying passion runs deeper than we knew
Far deeper than the surface seen above
Far wider than the limits set by love





Background music is:
Pretty Little Angel Eyes