Hello and certainly good morning all of you…! This past weekend was great for my family, and especially awesome on Friday, August 16^th, which was my beautiful wife Elise’s Happy Birthday.  For dinner that evening, our three daughters, Elise & I went to Ray’s Boathouse restaurant, and we were able to get a table that is located on their deck, and the deck has awesome views of the water of the Puget Sound. For Elise’s birthday, my gift to her is a pair of new cowgirl boots that she will love to wear for sure, when we go on another one-day horseback ride  in Wyoming again at some point soon…!  It is great for me to do this, because Elise has never owned a real pair of actual cowgirl boots, but now she does have them {🤠, 🏇}, and as well as a cowgirl hat. I bought for her from the same awesome store that is named Best West Western Stores, located in Snohomish, Washington, which is located quite close to our house. Our three daughters gave Elise birthday gifts of dessert, flowers, candles, and Beats headphones as Elise started to run again.

 Just to let all of you know, Elise and I recently celebrated our 26 years anniversary of marriage which took place on August 1^st , 1998 in Jackson, Mississippi, where Elise was born and grew up in before she we went to Washington & Lee University {W&L}, which is  located in Lexington, Virginia…!

I have loved Elise every moment since the day I first met her!  We started to date for about two years before we got engaged to get married.  I am blessed and so happy to be married to Elise. We love each other forever!  I will just share with all of you some examples of what my beautiful wife has done for me.  First, Elise inspired me to pursue things that will challenge me, like climbing mountains, and second, Elise motivated me to help other people with things like helping to feed homeless people, and third, Elise was volunteering at an animal rescue that was in Washington DC, and that rescue was where we found our first dog named Buddy. Elise & I and Buddy, moved across America so that I could attend the University of Washington Business School in 1999!

I have loved sharing my life wife Elise for 30 years!