Happiest of Anniversaries 💜💜💜

Tomorrow will be 20th August 2016, our 24th wedding anniversary. It will probably be the last one we get to celebrate together...I will be at work and Scott will probably ( hopefully) have a long lie and restful day. We are having lunch together on Sunday as a family and I'm looking forward to that.

So, we won't make silver but we do get to make it to Tanzanite which I think is an achievement. I love being married, I always have and I love being married to Scott , he is by far my favourite husband. Even on our first date in 1988 I knew I would marry him and look...I was right ...again!

In August 1992 , it had lashed with rain all month but after early showers it dried up enough for us to get to church dry, have photos taken at Dean Castle, drive to Fenwick Hotel and then it absolutely lashed later on. We had vintage cars and a vintage bus called ' Maggie's Bus' ( from 'Take The High Road') , we had fresh flowers , we had immediate family and lots of friends to join us and celebrate our day. We had laughter, we had love and we had a life of living to do together.

We had our first flat with its tiny kitchen and even tinier bathroom ( turquoise bath! ) , we had no central heating and used to take it in turns to get out of bed to switch the immersor on to heat water ...it was freezing! We had fun in that first flat and enjoyed making it ours...central heating a must! We brought Ruaraidh home there but with a Fiona soon on the way we needed to look for a bigger house.

A very short stay in Galston, loved the house but not the town for us and moved back to Kilmarnock within 18 months and our home for next 9 years. By this time Isla had joined us and completed our family of 5. Scott had started travelling with work in that time and this was hard at times but he always came home to us and we enjoyed the benefits of airmiles! Him coming home was always something to be looked forward to. Luckily technology had brought us Internet and mobile phones in this time! We could keep in constant touch. We then had a move to a bigger house...our forever home ( so we thought! ) , which I chose as Scott was in Australia ...I just had to phone him, describe it to him and he just had to trust I'd choose well!

By the time we had been married for 18 years we knew we were moving to Melbourne, to start a new life adventure as a family. We have had great times here, we've had difficult times here but we've had each other and that's all we can ask for ! We have hard times ahead but we will do it together. We have and are lucky to have 24 years of marriage to look back on and whatever time we have together to look forward to. We have been blessed with three fabulous children ...they've been blessed with a fabulous mum and dad (#justsaying- they will read this! ) and we are so fortunate to have each other and to live our lives side by side together every day.

Happy 24th anniversary Scott...you chose well 😍 ( apparently tanzanites and diamonds go well together ...#justsaying )

Always living, definitely loving and doing my best to keep laughing !