Happy Valentines, Happy Anniversary, my Love!

Valentines day is quite a special day around the Dardano household:) Fifteen years ago the Clark High School Valentines dance was our very first date, Nine years later Valentines day we were married, and now six years later we are celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary! In honor of this day I would like to dedicate this post to my wonderful husband who, after all these years keeps making me more in love with him than ever! So here- in true blogger fashion- to toast to another fifteen years of wedded bliss I have fifteen reasons why I am the luckiest girl in the world to be married to Mauricio Ernesto Dardano...

1. He is hot. I think it was the eyes that first got to me in ninth grade- and every other girl that wanted to date the cute el salvadorian.
2. He is the funniest guy I have ever met/ dated. Mauri makes me laugh all the time- and sometimes for no reason at all- I am laughing right now just thinking about it.
3. He is smart. He must have taken a test every day in dental school and never missed a beat. This trait also plays into his funniness. he is very witty..
4. He is playful. Mauricio is like a big kid- it keeps things interesting.
5. He is athletic. I don't think he has ever played organized soccer and he can beat me pretty easily. same with every other sport.
6. He can cook. enough said.
7. He's a good dancer.
8. He has amazing oral hygiene-actually all of his personal hygiene is pretty good.
9. He thinks of the best dates and presents.
10. He loves his boys. part of this is him being a big kid- but he loves to play and wrestle with them and to say that they LOVE this is the understatement of the century.
11. He is a good person. People like him because he is honest and kind. He genuinely loves people and would gladly make himself look stupid if it helped someone else.
12. He makes me a better person. He wont listen to me if I start to get vicious about someone.
13. He loves his family.
14. He gave me my 2 (almost 3) boys. I think he is the best father to them that I could ask for. If they get his ambition, his heart, and his looks I would be the happiest mother alive.
15. He is, has been for 15 years, and will be until I am old and gray- my best friend in the whole world.

I love you, my angel:)

and for your enjoyment I have included some pictures of us taken through the years...







Football banquet '97 Prom '98

Mount timp '99

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