The girl loves food!!

We started Zoe on food last week. So far she has tried sweet potatoes, peas, carrots and squash, with sweet potatoes being her favorite.  She loves to eat!! (Must be like her mommy!) :o)

10:12 PM

my life was forever changed at 10:12 PM on September 6, 2003

That's the moment I first heard the voice of an angel, my angel.

Ninety minutes later I hung up.

With that phone call, a wondrous journey began.

One week later, shortly after noon on September 13th I first saw her up close.

When she opened the door,

my knees buckled,

my heart pounded,

my first thought,

"She's much too pretty for me."

As the date progressed, I was captivated by her heart;

a willing prisoner of the woman who would become my wife.

It was her easy smile and fun spirit that first drew me.

It was her huge heart for kids and love for ministry that left me wanting more.

When I hugged her goodnight 8 1/2 hours later, I just wanted to be near her.

I was smitten.

Things went pretty fast after that.

A surprise visit to her church the next day, another date on Tuesday, then Friday holding hands

and dangling our bare feet in the water at High Rock Lake.

I'm not sure how or where it happened, but she fell in love with me before I did with her.

I knew she loved me, and she knew the pain that was holding me back.

Insightfully beyond her years, she reached into my heart and said everything was OK.

Her verbal caresses released me.

Two days later I could wait no longer.

Scarcely two weeks after I first saw my angel up close, I told her I loved her.

She said, "I love you too."

I've never been happier.

Not even one month later, on October 18th, I would ask Lorena Lynn Finley to be my bride.

She said, "yes!"

I am the luckiest man alive.

Now as I stand on the precipice of a lifetime - as I peer into our future,

I see our kids to to school, then off to college.

I hear the laughter of our grandkids.

I feel the wrinkles of my face pressed against her aging cheek.

This I see; this I embrace.

a lifetime to love together,

a lifetime to play together,

a lifetime to serve together.

A lifetime with one so precious,

one so pure,

one so lovely.

A lifetime for which I dared not even dream before 10:12 PM on September 6, 2003.

Steve Hungerford

(It has been five years since the first time I talked to Steve. He wrote this poem and placed it on all the tables at our wedding reception. It has been very touching to pull it out and read it tonight. I thought I would share it with you.  He is such a wonderful man and God has richly blessed me with him and our lives together, more so than we ever deserve.  I am forever grateful to Him! To Steve - Thanks, Sweetie, for these five wonderful years.  I am looking forward to many, many more to come. I love you with all my heart!! - Your doll.)