The beginning of Us

When Mel and I were dating, I used to say he was my knight in shining armor, who just happened to roll up on a Harley rather than a white horse.  He was also the "bad boy" I could finally keep.  You see I was never very good at choosing the men to date, they were always "bad boys", but by the time I met Mel he had mellowed enought to be just the right amount of "bad" in a good way.  We used to just sit for hours and talk, talk, talk.  He talked a lot more than I did.  He definitely had the gift of gab.  I used to call him my Chatty Cathy (remember the baby dolls with the strings you would pull and they would talk). He used to ask me why I would get so quiet, and I always told him that for us to be socially acceptable that I had to be quiet otherwise people would see us and run the other way.  I also used to tell Mel that he better never get sick on me or I would put him in a home, because I was not going to spend the prime of my life caring for him (I liked to tease him that he was 10 years older than me).  He always said he gave money to an Alzheimer's unit just to invest in his future, and we laughed about that.  Our wedding day was beautiful.  It was an unseasonably warm day for Colorado in December.  We got married on December 20, 1997.  Mel started crying when he saw me walk down the aisle with my dad.  When I got to the front of the church and he took my hand he kept saying "I love you so much, you look so beautiful".  I felt like a beautiful princess on that day. For our wedding reception Mel decided he would pick the song we would dance to as our first as husband and wife. He chose "The Rest of Mine" by Trace Adkins.  When Mel passesd away I looked back on that song and was in awe of how foretelling they had become.

There's no guarantee that we'll see tomorrow
Heaven only knows how long we have
So there's no way I'll ever for one second let you wonder
Just how long my love for you will last

'Til my last breath, 'til I'm called on high
'Til the angels come and I see the light
To the very end, 'til I give in
To the last beat of my heart
No I can't swear that I'll be here for the rest of your life
But I swear I'll love you for the rest of mine
'Til my last breath, 'til I'm called on high
'Til the angels come and I see the light
To the very end, 'til I give in
To the last beat of my heart
No I can't swear that I'll be here for the rest of your life
But I swear I'll love you for the rest of mine

No I can't swear that I'll be here for the rest of your life
But I swear I'll love you for the rest of mine

And he did love me to the very end. The most important thing to Mel was Jesus Christ, me and our kids and his son Aaron and his granddaughters.