Christmas in July 2019 - Day Twenty-Nine

You'd think that with over 800 ornaments (I know, crazy isn't it, and every one of them on an Excel spreadsheet!) it would be tough to come up with a Favorite Ornament for today's topic.  It was actually very easy, it's this one (sorry it's a bit blurry):

Our First Christmas Together 1992

It's a simple Hallmark ornament with a loose piece at the back for inserting a photo.  1992 was the start of our story, it was the year we met, and the year we got engaged.  This photo was taken on Vic's birthday - look how brown he is from working all day in the tropical sun!  Vic was an overseas contract worker from the Philippines who came to Saipan to work for the cable television company on a project to upgrade the system to fiber optics.  I was the Administrative Manager for the company so I told Sophia when she was little that Mommy and Daddy met at the office.  Vic told her he married his boss!  Anyway, this party that Vic roommates held for him was the first real time we were together as a couple and here we are now, having celebrated twenty-six years of marriage this year.  We've gone from Saipan to Florida to Illinios to Virginia to Rhode Island and back to Virginia and to Washington and back to Virginia again and now back to Washington again for me and on to Okinawa for Vic.  We hope to return to Saipan, would love to walk down memory lane.  One day perhaps.

Here's a closer view of the two of us, two crazy kids falling in love: