To my dear wife

Memories are forever…

Imperfect 4-inch underwear squares

Pay phone marriage proposals

UW-Milwaukee one day, Germany the next

Autobahn hospital drives with no muffler

Fast deliveries

Child #1 on Anniversary #1

Life between boxes – 14 houses in 18 years

9lb, 10oz baby boy

Goodbyes at the airport…Joyful hugs 4 to 6 months later

Missing baby Brendan’s birth

Arguments over unfolded maps

Unexpected home delivery–you should have listened to me

Dad’s 21 gun salute—you holding my hand

Flooded house, emergent surgeries, car accidents, 3^rd trimester pregnancies, broken down cars – all by yourself

Seeing your smiling face… Marathon finishes, College diplomas, Military promotions, Retirement day, Every day when I come home from work

Goat “assisted” deliveries

Baking in the hot sun during wheelchair track meets

Search for the infamous septic tank

Moira’s coffee burn

I’yi and Aushaus (so, how do you actually spell that?)

Tennis racquet’s do in fact make a mighty fine weapon

The constant sound of a piano

Broken down Suburban’s at 3pm on the 3^rd of July in the middle of Nebraska

Our 1^st girl

Neighborhood kids in our yard, even when we’re not home

RV camping

Russelsheim, Dayton, San Antonio, Layton, Newport News, Colorado Springs

Nutrisystem

Honey Do’s

My dream truck – too easy!

Checkerboard manicured yards and flowers

2am ceiling collapse

Star Wars and lightsabers

Hoover, Blue, Charlie, Chelsea, Lucy, Satch, Emma, Angel, Ruby, Wally – need I say more?

2 male neighbors with swimming pool

Lizards on the wall

Nightly rosaries

Eating baked chicken at Whole Foods

Palmer Lake reservoir

Flintwood Ridge – our 1^st house

B&B’s

Annual Turkey Dance

Happy Anniversary Hon.  I love you so much!  Allen