Mr. and Mrs. Moats....Our Wedding Day

This is the best story, of course I think it is!! I would not have traded this day for anything!! So, Tad and I had been dating for 7 months and he had asked me to marry him. Of course I said YES!!! We had picked out a ring together and were paying on it slowly. We decided to set our wedding date for early December during the finals when most of my family was already going to be in town. Well...I had been at work and decided I was going to get all the info that we needed to get our marriage license. This was Thursday, August 12th, 2004. That night Tad and I were sitting at our little kitchen table in our little 800 sqft house and I was telling him what all I found out. Then we got the calendar out and started looking at dates...then we decided on colors...you know, all the prewedding goodies :) Then I told Tad, "Why don't we just go and do it and get it over with?" He looked at me like I was CRAZY!!! I proceded to tell him that since we had both been married before, why do we need to go through it again....WE LIVE IN VEGAS (not really...we did live in Henderson). His response to me was, "We are going to have a lot of people mad at us if we do that." I said, "well, they will get over it"! Then he says, "We don't have our rings yet". I said, "Ummmm, Kmart has all thier jewerly 70% off". NOW, I really thought he thought I was crazy cause the look he gave me was priceless!! So, we got in my little car and headed to kmart and bought our rings. My band cost $10.00 and Tad's cost $20.00. We headed to the courthouse and got our marriage license. As we came out the door there were people standing there handing out brochures for wedding chapel and the first one that got handed to Tad, WE WENT TO. And that was it. We walked in...and it was the best thing we have ever done. I would never have changed that night for anything. It was great, even though we were in jeans and T-Shirts!!

No look at us....our little 800 sqft house is now 3,000 sqft. My little car (ford escort) is now a ford excursion and our little kitchen table (only set 3) now is a big dining room table with 6 chairs and a high chair. A lot has happened in these 6 years but they have been the best 6 years of my life :)

Oh yes...and one day shy of our one year anniversary we welcomed Shaelee Lynn Moats into the world :)