Once upon a time, way back in 1976, the U.S.A. turned 200 years old. While most of the people in the country were planning big Bicentennial celebrations, there was a handsome young man and a cute nice girl planning a wedding! While the bride-to-be was looking for a dress, choosing colors and starting a new job as a legal secretary at McKay, Burton, McMurray & Thurman; the future groom was looking for a place to live after they got married. In no time at all he found the perfect honeymoon cottage in Woods Cross, Utah.
While the bride-to-be was looking for shoes, addressing invitations, and counting on her mom to do everything else; the future groom bought the little house in Woods Cross, Utah with all the savings of his bride-to-be as a down payment. Then he moved into it! At first he only had a mattress on the floor, a pink hand-me-down dresser for his clothes, and a box of Sugar Pops in the cupboard.
Soon all that changed.
First the cute couple converted a garbage can into a round table. Then they went shopping and bought a washer and dryer, a vacuum cleaner and a nice bedroom set which was their wedding gift to each other. Later in the year the groom got a $150 per month pay raise. So then they bought a Wurtlitzer piano as a Christmas gift to each other--the same piano they still have to this day. They also had lots of other fine furnishings in their very first home including a hand-me-down green plastic couch and a very old black-and-white TV with three channels and no remote control!
But back to the sunny, delightful day of May 13, 1976. On that perfect Thursday morning at the hour of 10 a.m. the handsome young man named David (also known as your Grandpa) married a cute nice girl named Christie (also known as your Grandma) in the Salt Lake Temple. After an open house at the groom's home in Bountiful and a reception the next night in the bride's hometown in Idaho, they went on their honeymoon to "the happiest place on earth" which must be why they have lived happily ever after!
Happy Wednesday!
Love, Grandma
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