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Thirty-two years ago today a very young couple walked down the isle and promised they would love each other 'always'.
Janis was the first girl I dated. I was only 17 and she the tender age of 16. For me it was love at first sight and I asked her to marry me within three weeks of our first date. Janis took a little longer to make up her mind. She said "no" the first time I asked her to marry me... "maybe" the next... "not yet" the third time and "YES" on the fourth try. Three years later we were married. I chased her until she caught me.
Some things are very much worth persevering for!
Our road together has always been exciting, sometimes a little bumpy, most times smooth and always travelled together. We are in it together for the long haul.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Congrats Dan! I hope to have that good of a relationship with my wife in 30 years.
-------------------- Kelsey Dum Dum Designs Sherwood, AR 72120 501.765.2166 kelsey@dumdesigns.com Posts: 827 | From: Sherwood, AR | Registered: Oct 2005
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That's awesome Dan! Clay and I will celebrate our 10th on the 29th of this month...it's been a blast - plenty of ups, plenty of downs but always interesting.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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Happy Anniversary, Dan and Janis! Thanks for the inspiration.
-------------------- “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Winnie the Pooh & A.A. Milne
Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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CONGRATULATIONS DAN & JANIS! Thats an incredible achievement these days mate! Well done, you are a inspiration and I wish we had more time to talk at mikes meet, I enjoyed our chats.
cheers mate!
I'm gunna come and write on your workshop wall one of these days - and thats a thret..
Rod
-------------------- Rod from, EAST COAST AIRBRUSHING "Airbrush Art & Graphics" Nambour; Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Australia E.mail: rod@rodticklesigns.com Web: www.rodticklesigns.com Posts: 635 | From: Nambour, Sunshine Coast, Queensland | Registered: Dec 1998
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Love is Grand... when you know that special someone is in your life through thick and thin...
Best Wishes from Sunny Northern California!
-------------------- Rose Davidson Sleeper Woods Design Honoring Tradition with Technology Lakeport, CA 95435 Posts: 104 | From: Lake County, California | Registered: Nov 2005
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Joan & I celebrate our 16th anniversary in a couple of months- so here's hoping for the same bliss all over again!
-------------------- "Stewey" on chat
"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Best wishes to both of you. As a couple you have attained what many of us can only dream about. Truly a storybook romance. love....jill
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Dan and Janis, congratulations and best wishes. What a wonderful story. Here's for the next thirty! (This reminds me of the commercial one of my favorites: the couple get married and go to Disney World for their honeymoon and he carries her over the threshold of the hotel suite, then it blends to laying their toddler in the bed, then it flips through the pictures of their lives until they are older; really brings out the emotions in me to see how time flies by and we must make the best out of our families and years together).
-------------------- Deb Fowler
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966) Posts: 5373 | From: Loves Park, Illinois | Registered: Aug 1999
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Dan, We've never met, but I want to congratulate you and say that you have inspired me with your talent and vision in designing 3 dimensional signage. Your website, your work and your marriage obviously show your persuit of quality and style. Thank you for your many inspiring posts on and off topic. Someday I hope to meet you and share a few stories of my own. Keep up the great work so many of us can continue to learn from your example. Happy Anniversary and I pray you have many more.
Sign-cerely, Steve
-------------------- Steve Luck Sign Magic Inc. 2718-b Grovelin Godfrey, Illinois 62035 (618)466-9120 signmagic@sbcglobal.net Posts: 870 | From: 2718-b Grovelin Godfrey, Illinois 62035 | Registered: Dec 2004
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Happy Anniversary Dan and Janis, now that we have met (without Janis) and talked and dined, it all means so much more. I said it before and I'll say it again, you have done so much for so many and you and your wife deserve the very best.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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