Today I pay tribute to Claudia, my lovely bride of 29 years. Claudia is a gracious
lady, loving wife, eternal companion, gentle mother to our seven children and
my best friend. I clearly married up in this world!

We are celebrating our wedding anniversary today in beautiful Sandy,
Utah, where we are attending the wedding
of a nephew.

We were married in the Salt
Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints on August 6, 1976. Our first date was the previous
Halloween, when we attended the opera Falstaff at Brigham
Young University. From that wonderful start, life has become better each
year.