Tonight my mother and father-in-law arrived to stay with us for a few days.\u00a0 They came down from their farm in Idaho to visit us so they could come to see their son (my husband) tomorrow night when he will be singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City.\u00a0 The way the choir thing came about was that I was at a charity event one night with my daughter as my date and they had a silent auction to raise money for the Huntsman Cancer Center.\u00a0 When I saw that one of the auction items was for the opportunity to sing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir I knew that I just had to buy it as a gift for my husband.<\/p>\n
My husband has been singing his entire life.\u00a0 In fact at the age of 7 he was attending a rodeo in Idaho when he broke through the security gate onto the field to ask the announcer of the Rodeo if he could have the microphone to sing a song to the entire stadium of people.\u00a0 The announcer was stunned and asked the crowd how they felt about that. The crowd went wild cheering to let this little boy have the microphone. So Rollin took the microphone from him and proceeded to sing at the top of his lungs the audience.\u00a0 That became the first of many performances he gave in singing with choirs and in theaters.\u00a0 He even had the opportunity to sing once at Carnegie Hall in New York as a teenager.\u00a0 \u00a0His entire family sings and they all have amazing musical talent.\u00a0 The first family reunion after we were married we were at a park with his extended family when the family suddenly burst into song \u2013 I was shocked \u2013 they sounded almost as good as MoTab, with even the smallest grandchildren joining in the harmonies.\u00a0 Yes, music is a passion and\u00a0 I knew that the best Christmas gift I could give my husband was to get him this chance to sing with the most famous choir in the world \u2013 MoTab!\u00a0 So Thursday night he will be joining them for the 7:45pm concert at the Concert Center and we are super excited to go and see it.\u00a0 The concert is open to the public so we will be in the crowd cheering and taking photos for the memory books.\u00a0 It will be a once in a lifetime opportunity.<\/p>\n
My husband\u2019s parents are two of the cutest people on the planet!\u00a0 I adore them so much.\u00a0 And as we sat visiting with them tonight I couldn\u2019t help but think to myself, \u201cI hope we will be that cute when we are 80!\u201d\u00a0 Seriously, they are the cutest couple.\u00a0 They are so in love still and so fun and sassy with each other.\u00a0 They don\u2019t just love and respect each other, they genuinely enjoy one another and you can see the fun that exists in their relationship.\u00a0 They laugh and tease and give each other cute looks across the room.\u00a0 They are SO CUTE!!!<\/p>\n
Watching them I realized that they are the model of what to strive to be like when we are older.\u00a0 That is the relationship to build with your spouse.\u00a0 One of fun and humor and sass, and playful, and kind, and considerate, and loving and sweet.\u00a0 Logic would say that it probably wasn\u2019t always perfect between them, no couple I have ever met is ever perfect, but after having 11 children together, burying one of those children at the age of 7 and one at the age of 29, and raising their family which expanded to a large number of grand-children, and serving as service missionaries together in Kenya, Africa, these two adorable people have cornered the market on how to be that cute little couple that is still very much in love in their old age. Their example of love for each other is one for all of us to try and follow.<\/p>\n
Here is to being cute when we are all in our 80\u2019s \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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