Eileen & Richard, 1954, BYU Junior Prom
(not the dance they met at)
I met your grandpa the very same way. We were both at BYU living in an apartment complex called Alta Apartments. We attended a ward Opening Social dance, and Lance spotted Valerie across the room and decided to ask her to dance. The side note to the story is that he probably would have asked my roommate who was sitting next to me on the stage, but by the time he made it over to us, she had already been asked.
That first dance was memorable because we talked the entire time, and when the music stopped we were still talking so we danced again. This was September. He had returned from his mission to Spain the previous spring so when I said I was from Amarillo he said, "It's not Amarillo, it's ama-ree-yo"--pronouncing it like the Spanish word for yellow.
There's much more to both of these love stories, but this is how they got their similar starts.
I promise cameras were invented back then but we don't have many early pictures of us. (I will add more as I find them and scan them into the computer.)
This one is most likely when we were already married
Us at a ward dance in 2013!
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