After All These Years

For 18 years a group of friends in Woods Cross have gotten together each Valentines to put together a tribute to their wives. Each year attempting to come up with new and more creative ideas to entertain their wives. Over the years they have serenaded their wives with original compositions, written love letters, written love poems, taken them to fancy restaurants, winter sleigh rides and even a dinner cruise on the Great Salt Lake. But I think the most memorable are the dinners all the guys get together under the direction of Mike Johnson master chef to cook dinner for their wives. Nery and I were honored about 6 or 7 years ago to join this group and have enjoyed being a part of such a loving thoughtful group of friends. Over the years a few people have moved away and some like Nery and I have moved in so there has been some change but the main core of friends still remains. The Bowman's, Maurice being the driving force behind this effort, The Johnson's, The Bradley's, The Schwab's, The Van De Graff's, The Harten's, and the two newest couples The Coleman's that's Nery and me and the Seegmiller's. Last night we enjoyed this years installment and it was another success. Under Mike's direction we fixed an Italian dinner with homemade 1000 layer Lasagna, Mikes homemade baguette's, salad, minestrone soup, sorbet, and chocolate cheese cake. we then went downtown to the Off Broadway theater and watched a play, "My School Musical", Bradley's son Justin was on of the actors. We finished the night with a video slide show that I put together of each couple over the years. I have included the introduction of that slide show which is pictures from four of our past Valentines party's. A dinner at Xiao Li Chinese restaurant, a Prime Rib Dinner at Johnson's home, a dinner and sleigh ride at Park City and a Dinner Cruise on the Great Salt Lake.