Honeymoon!!

11 years ago crazy!!

Typical Melissa Face
So young, so skinny


Melissa is actually all into pain doing her hygene work!




You can probably tell what's all over the car. It's funny as many times as we have tried to clean the car, every once and a while we'll find one hidden somewhere.

And in the immortal words of James Taylor- How sweet it is to be loved by you, how sweet it is to be loved by you. I needed the shelter of someones arms, there you where. I needed someone to understand my ups and downs, there you where. With sweet love and devotion, deeply touch. How sweet it is to be loved by you, feels so fine. How sweet it is to be loved by you. I closed my eyes at night, wondering where I would be without you in my life, everything I did was just a bore, everywhere I went it seems I've been there before. but you got enough for me all my days. Love so sweet in so many ways. I wanna stop and thank you baby, I just want to stop and thank you baby, oh yes, how sweet it is to be loved by you, it's just like sugar sometimes. How sweet it is to be loved by you. Wo, yeah. You where better to me then i was to myself. For me there's you and there ain't nobody else, I wanna stop and thank you baby, i just wanna stop, and thank you baby. Oh yes, how sweet it is to be loved by you. How sweet it is to be loved by you. Oh now, how sweet it is to be loved by you. It's like jelly baby. Oh yeah, how sweet it is to be loved by you, just like honey to the bee baby. how sweet it is to be loved by you.

Wedding Day

I am sitting here at 5:30 in the morning unable to sleep because i have strep throat, thankyou very much Melissa, she got it first and passed it on to me. This is not fun at all. Any ways i started going through some old pictures, and found these that i scanned in about 5 years ago.

It's sparkling cyder if anyone is wondering, we aren't getting drunk!Big Cake!Aghhh, Ain't that sweet!!!

And in the immortal words of Michael Webb-Someone to hold you, and love you, and know that there yours forever. Someone who wants you, and needs you, sharing your life together. Love when it's true, will make 1 out of 2. and with all of my heart, I wanna be 1 with you. You are my sunrise, my blue sky's with plenty of sun to warm me. You are my shelter, my rainbow, whenever it's dark and stormy, all my dreams have come true, since my love has found you, and when i look in your eyes, i know that you love me too.

Your my best friend, and I want to spend, the rest of our lives together. Your my best friend, my lover, and there's nothing that could be better, then to hold you, and love you, and give you all of the joy you've lived for. When your with me, you lift me, you fill me, you make me want to give more, and from inside of you, so much beauty comes through, and it shines through your eyes, keeping our love oh so new.

Your my best friend and i want to spend the rest of our lives together, your my best friend, my lover and there's nothing that could be better, your my best friend, oh please can we spend the rest of our lives together, cause when i hold you, and look in your eyes, I know that there's nothing better for me.

Melissa sang that to me shortly before we got married!

Buchanan Family Reunionn 2009

Goonies Jail In Astoria, Oregon
Goonies House in Astoria, Oregon
Lewis and Clark Monuement, Seaside Oregon, Timothy, J.D., Ervin, & Melissa
Ervin & Melissa on the beach in Seaside, Oregon


Evie, J.D. and Timothy at the beach in Seaside, Oregon

Just as a fun side note, we got pulled over for speeding, and to make matter's worse Melissa hadn't put the current insurance cards in the car (not unusual for her, even though the garage is like 10 steps away, she still pins them on our bulletin board!). Thankfully the cop let us off!

camping time out!

These 2 children where told to stay where we could see them at all times, they chose to disobey!

J.D.'s 4 today!!!!

Happy Birthday J.D.!!!

More Mission Pictures

Transfers

The MTC
November 1994


To North Carolina
December 1994


Leaving the Mission Home to go to Fayetteville
December 1994
Elder Bingham-First Companion


Leaving Fayetteville to go to Dunn
March 1995
Just Luggage!



Leaving Dunn to go to Wallace
May 1995
No Picture


Leaving Wallace to go to Swansboro
August 1995
Just luggage!



Leaving Swansboro to go to Woodington
March 1996


Leaving Woodington to go to Goldsboro
May 1996



Leaving Goldsboro to go to Greenville
September 1996



Leaving Greenville to go to Fayettville
October 1996



Leaving Fayetteville to go to the Mission Home
November 1996


Leaving the Mission Home to go toUtah
November 1996

Mission Pictures-My Big Project , Melissa's Big Headache

I used to be so skinny I weighed about 130 my entire mission, Melissa fattened me up pretty good. Anyone who doesn't know i served in the North Carolina Raleigh Mission from 11-1994 to 11-1996

Recently I started going through all of my missionary stuff, Journals pictures etc.I have been trying to get everything put on the computer, my journal is done, many of things i got on my mission such as my missionary call, all of the letters I have ever received, I even have most of my bank statements, it's interesting to see how I somehow managed to live off of $155.00 a month, I still haven't tracked down my blue weekly day planners, I kept every last one of them. I intend to get those on the computer too.

Lately I have been focused on scanning my pictures into the computer. Who knows how many pictures I took, more then i probably should have, My camera went just as many places as one of the blue Book of Mormons did when I went out, which basically means everywhere. As of right now I haven't finished scanning but here are a few of my favorites. The plan is to eventually get a movie made, I should start that soon.



This is of course me, Danny Gaytan who I baptised, Rosalinda Gaytan his wife and Elder Hopper



Elder Hopper ended up being my favorite companion, not sure why really we just got along very well, Elder Hopper came from a cowboy background, so of course that came with him on his mission, I remember walking down the road one day, a car drove by, and they flipped us off, next thing I know Elder Hopper has his hand in the air returning the favor, not exactly appropriate for a missionary but funny anyways!



Day at the Ocean!

Fort Macon

Zone or district i don't remember, I only remember about half there names, Starting Back Row-?, Elder White, ?, Elder Cole, ?, Middle Row- Elder Pettey, Elder Long, Elder Wyatt, Elder Hopper, Elder Galbraith, Elder Adams and Bottom Row-?, ?, ?.



I Just can't get any privacy! Oh well when you gotta go you gotta go!



These where all taken when i was in the Swansboro/Jacksonville aria i was there the longest about 7 months and i have a ton of pictures from there, about 200 scanned so far, and I'm not done yet. it was one of my favorite arias, and very pretty. Swansboro was right along the waterways on the east side of North Carolina.