Nicole is 29! Really!

         Nicole Kathryn Hendrickson Shelby
It's just amazing, but my Nicole was born this morning 29 years ago.  What an amazing addition to our family, what a beautiful daughter, inside and out.  I love being with her.

                                   May, 1980

                                   Easter 1981
                                         Easter 1985
                            Orchestra performance--Claremont Youth Symphony 

                                           High School Graduation, 1998

                                   Isabelle's Baptism, April 2008

       

What more can I say you are loved and I will Love you forever!!

32 Joyous Years

Word's can't express what I feel today.  I have spent 32 years with a man that I love with all my heart.  A man who still makes my heart do funny things; my heart stops at times when I look at him and know how blessed I am to share life with him, it still skips a beat when I see him, it races when we are together or just holding his hand.  I love to feel his touch, to laugh, cry, talk, share, explore, just be together and share space without words, and to be enveloped in his arms.  He is my lover, best friend, companion, spiritual leader, protector, provider, my true earthly joy, life is wonderful because of him.  I can't wait to spend Eternity with him, I never grow tired of being with him.  He is an awesome husband, wonderful father, caring son, true friend, who wouldn't want him in your life.

Now brace yourself, here is a couple of pictures of our life together, OK more than a couple but I wanted to put so many more.  I didn't even get to the ones where he is with the Grandkids.  Some of those are my favorites.  He is just the best!!!

This is Mark and I on our very first date, 5 days after he returned home from Argentina on his mission, April 1976.

February 4, 1977--We are young and eager to share life and all it brings.
My how we grow.
I love this group!  I know that everyone isn't here, but as of today Mark and I have gone from 2, to 19, who would of ever imagined.  Time flies by so fast.
Nostalgia.
 
Mark and Scott on his (Scott's) blessing day.
Mark and Jodi and her family on his graduation day.
Mark and Nicole the day they blessed adam.
Heidi and I at her visit.  (Not my favorite picture but I added it from the small thumb nail, it looked better small, sorry Heidi--I owe you a better pic of us)

Thanksgiving 2006, Utah.
This picture was for our wedding announcement.


I love this man!
We took this picture tonight after we got home from dinner.  February 4, 2008--32 years, and all I ask for is Eternity with him.

Saturday Night--Belly Up Bar

Saturday  Night  we headed to Solano Beach to attend a concert of James Morrison with the Kirtley's.  The tickets were theirs and they generously shared with us.  We met them for a fabulous Greek dinner first, yum.  Then off to the Belly Up Bar.  My first standing only concert with a room more than full of fans.  It was a fun concert with good music and good people watching.  Here's a video of one of our favorite songs that he preformed that night.