Snow Day and my Anniversary

wow it is really snowing. I don't think it has really snowed here in a couple of years. Its nice to see but I wish it would have done it on Christmas. That would have been great. But its snowing now so I'll take it. I personally love the snow. Dale not so much but I know I love it. I guess that is because I grew up with snow. You see I am from California. Northern mostly and it always snowed in the winter. It brings back so many memories from my childhood. Playing in the yard. Making a very big snowman and having snowball fights with my brothers and the neighborhood kids. We use to stay out all day. only going in for a few mins to get a little warmer and then right back out into the snow. I think we were all snowmen by the time the day was over and we went inside. I remember going to bed at night and not being able to sleep because I was so ready to go back outside and play in the snow again.

I remember this one time when I was like 7 or 8 and we lived in this yellow house that had this huge back yard that went downhill to a creek. In the winter the creek would freeze solid and you could walk on it. Anyway my brothers and I had been begging my parents for a sled so that we could slide down the hill. We had been using the trashcan lids but we wanted a real sled like the neighborhood kids had so they finally gave in and bought us two of them. We got together with our friends and played in our back yard all day. Taking turns going down the hill and trying to stop before we got to the creek. Of course we never did. We always hit the creek every time. Good thing it was frozen solid. Then walking back up the hill to do it all over again. It was so much fun. To bad I don't have that kind of energy anymore. ha ha ha.

Anyway on to other things. Today is my 10 year anniversary. I have been married to the most wonderful husband in the world for 10 years. It sill seems like just yesterday that we got married. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing but all I know is that I am glad I am married to him. Yes we have had our ups and downs but at least we stuck it out and worked through it instead of giving up and getting out. I guess its true what they say. If you put God first in your marriage then great things will come of it. I know I have watched my friends get married and divorced within two years. I have watched my own family do the same. They give up at the first sign of trouble instead of working through it and making it work. Don't get me wrong I understand that there are very good reasons not to work it out and get a divorce. I'm just glad I didn't give up on my marriage.

Not many people really know how we met so I'm going to tell you now. You see I was working at this casino called The Grand while I was pregnant with Dominic. After I had him I decided that working there was not going to work out because of the hours so I quit and started working at this little mom and pop sub shop. I worked there for a couple of month and then my girlfriend told me that this new casino called The Imperial Palace was hiring for the day shift so I went with her and we applied. We both got the job and started working there together. Since we just lived down the road we carpooled together to work. I had been there about three days and was working by myself for the first time. (oh ya I guess I should tell you that I was working as a maid in the hotel part of the casino since I wasn't 21 yet). I went out to my cart to get a new set of sheets for the bed and saw this really cute security guy walking down the hall. I just looked for a minute and then went back to making the bed. As I was working on the bed he quietly walked into the room and bent down beside me and whispered "Don't you think you should be working". I just about jumped out of my skin and he laughed. We talked for a few mins. then my supervisor started down the hall so I told him I had to get back to work. He left and finished his rounds and I finished my work on that floor. Since I knew he started at the top floor and was working his way down I didn't think I would see him again and kicked myself for not giving him my number. I went on to the other floors that I needed to clean and was almost finished for the day when I saw him again coming down the hall. Now I know its crazy but something inside me told me to give him my number now so I hurried up and wrote it down on a piece of paper that I had on my cart and went back into the room. He stopped when he got to the room I was in and said that he didn't think he was going to see me again because I wasn't on the floor that we first met on. I told him that I was working on four floors that day and didn't think I would see him again either. We laughed and talked for a bit and then I gave him my number because his boss was calling him about a situation that needed to be addressed. We said goodbye and he said he would call. I got off work and went and picked Dominic up at the babysitters then went home. I didn't see him at work for a couple of weeks and hadn't heard from him so I thought he was just one of those guys who tries to see how many girls numbers he could get. Then one night I got a call at around 9pm and it was Dale. Turns out he was moving from Long Beach to Biloxi and didn't want to make a long distance call so he waited. The reason I hadn't seen him at work was because the tower (hotel) as the security called it wasn't his normal post. He was only working it that day because it was suppose to be his day off but the guy who normally worked it needed that day off for some reason and so they switched. It was the only time he ever worked in the hotel. Anyway I told him that he couldn't call me that late because I still had brothers in school and they were in bed. Yes I still lived with my parents. Ha ha ha. I told him to call me the next day. So he did and we talked for a couple of hour and made plans to go out on Friday. After we got off the phone I was telling my mom about him and how I really liked him and was planning on going out on Friday with him. She said that she had some free tickets to this new ride called the Ultimate Rush (if anyone knows what that is you know why my mom gave us the tickets)and that they were for that night only so I called him back and asked what he was doing that night and he said nothing so I asked him if he wanted to go to this ride with me. He said yes and I told him that I would have to bring Dominic and one of my brothers with me because both my parents were busy that night and couldn't watch him. He said it was fine with him and he would be at my house in an hour to pick us up. Anyway to make a long story short we went and had a great time. He took to Dominic right away. We saw each other off and on for a couple of weeks and then started carpooling together. Then he started watching Dominic for me after he got off ( oh ya I should tell you that he started work at 6 am and I started at 9 am so he would pick us up in the morning and I would take him to work then go home get ready for work take Dominic to the sitter and go to work) and on his days off since we had different days off. Which in the long run saved me a ton of money because Dominic was only at the sitters three days a week instead of five. After about two months of this we moved in together and got engaged. Then I introduced him to the church and he started taking the lessons and finally got baptised. A month later we got married and have been together ever since.

Wow it has been a really long time since I thought about that story. It brings up so many fond memories. Anyway I will stop babbling and get off here.

That's all for now.....Blog at you later.