A Witness

Have you seen the movie Shall We Dance? staring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Jennifer Lopez? Here is an overview I found online if you haven't seen it: A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him. When Susan Sarandon sits down to talk with the detective (played by Richard Jenkins, he was hilarious) she asks him:

• Why is it, do you think, that people get married?
• Passion.
• No.
• Why then?
• Because we need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet, I mean what does any ONE life really mean? But in a marriage you're promising to care about everything - the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things. All of it, all the time, every day. You're saying, 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness.'

I rewound that part over and over in order to write that down, I love it and need to remind myself of it. I am the witness to Scott's life and I'm so glad I am. One thing he has always loved is Jeeps. For his birthday I borrowed our good friend Craig's Jeep to fulfill a dream of Scott's.

Tennison and I showed up at work and gave his

administrative assistant clues to get him outside.

This is what he came out to...

I had to remind him it was for the weekend a few times!

He took it for a quick spin right away. Look at that face!

We drove and drove to get the most of his time... here are his biggest fans.

We stopped for a picnic up near the Poudre River.

A little wind blown and tired, they were troopers.

The coolest fence along our trek.

Scott went out for an early morning drive up to Horsetooth. He was in heaven!

Fulfilling dreams together

and making sure our lives will not go unnoticed.