| Melanie & Mike's 11th Wedding Anniversary October 14, 2006 |
| Your love is like a wonderful dream, From which I cannot wake. Every day love blooms anew, A perpetual bond between me and you. Like every new sunrise and each drop of rain, Your eternal love for me cleanses the pain. What man could yearn for anything more, Than a girl just like you, the one I adore. The days fall away and the seasons slip by, Yet my love is everlasting, for purity cannot die. Dearest one look to me, when you need support, Trust in our love and believe in your heart. Forever Faithfully Yours, Michael October 14, 1995 |
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| October 14, 1995 |
| How can love hold on so many years? A passion lasts, we're told, no more than two. Pleasure is more rich when passion clears, Pouring forth from love to love renew. Years of love can gather to an ocean Tormented in its wild constancy. When there's no wind, it seems bereft of motion; Eastward, though, the waves roll wild and free. No love can last unless there is the will. Tapestries are woven by design. Years pass and love continues, stronger still For all the daily care to make it shine. In life, if there is one, then we are blessed, For whom we can be totally undressed; Take off ourselves and find our spirits fair; Hunger for sweet love, and it is there. Dreams do come true, but only when They make it through despair, Limping into everyday Transformed beyond compare. No dream would be a dream if it Could pass for something real, Nor would we sail for paradise Would in its shoals conceal. So it is with love: the dream Long longed for, and now possessed, Must be a dream no longer,but An emperor undressed. Stark naked it must come to us In unaccustomed shame, And we must take it in our arms And love it just the same. And we must love love as it is That dreams might still come true, Mangled into miracles To make our lives anew. ~Melanie 2005~ |
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| Every sky's a brand new sky, Beautiful once again; And every kiss, a brand new kiss, New won, no matter when. And every love, a brand new love, New cherished every day; Though lips and heart may slowly age, The awe-struck girl will stay. And I will vow again to love You each day of my life, As though each morning were the first We rose as man and wife. Just as a meadow washed by rain Is relit by the dawn, Just so our love, as we grow old, Will each day be reborn. ~Melanie 2005~ |
| To think that it would come to this, All your hopes and dreams come true. To think that life could be as such, And lives could come together so. This is it, our one big chance, To make a life that is truely blessed. To make a family like no other, To make a love unlike all others. ~Mike 2005~ |
| Married Under the eyes of God, with our loving family, & friends at New Smyrna Beach, Florida |
| We have been so blessed over the years~ our most wonderful blessings are: Anson, Alexander, & Avery, who we hold in our arms and our angel, Aidan, who we hold in our hearts |
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| Mike & Melanie 1992 |
| Melanie & Mike 2002 |
| Mike & Melanie 1994 |
| With each year that passes us by, with each blessing bestowed upon our lives, and with every new page in Our Book of Life~ I Love You Forever and Always |
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| Mike & Melanie 2006 |
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| Summer 2006 Dancing the night away |