Thank you for visiting our wedding website.  We hope this site will keep everyone feeling a bit closer as we share our wedding with you.  Our departure date is set for April 12th to Nassau, Bahamas and the wedding ceremony is scheduled for 11 am EST (10 am CST) on April 17th.  Please check back often for updates to this site.

Also...  SAVE THE DATE...  We hope you can visit with us at our RECEPTION on April 22nd at 2 pm in NKC area.  You will receive further details by email or you can contact Carol.  Hope you enjoy our journey, blogs and pictures, and we will see you when we return as MR and MRS TODD MORE.

HIS...

Our journey began in 1989...

January 1989, back to school after Christmas break my senior year in high school.  Just another normal day at school, until third hour...  How could I have ever known that I was about to meet my soul mate, my high school sweetheart, my forever. 

I watched as she crossed the basketball court from the girl’s locker room to the stairs leading up to the mezzanine of the gym.  She disappeared by the end of the bleachers, and started up the stairs.  I was already on the mezzanine just waiting to see her.  She topped the stairs, and time stopped.  I was mesmerized.  She was so beautiful.

Not long after, we began dating, the usual stuff, dinner, movies, and of course prom.  My senior prom, and then her junior prom the following year.  I left to join the US Navy the beginning of her senior year.  Although I had plans to return to her, when I got back, I guess life had taken us in different directions. 

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It was a new school for me....the middle of my sophmore year and to that point life had already thrown me a few challenges. How did I know at the time....that the plan for our lives had already been on course leading us together like a magnet? I never saw it coming and yet I was meant to move to that school. It has been 20+ years now since we first met in the high school gym in lees summit. There was something different about this boy and the way I felt in my heart when I was near him....something simple and comforting. A feeling not describable by words. And so it began......our journey.

But then a twist of faith...While I was still finishing my senior year, Todd planned for the Navy and in my mind I thought I would never see him again. I remember at that very moment feeling a loss of something so much greater than life itself. From there on our lives went a different direction for 20 years.

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Our journey continues in 2010...

I joined the US Army National Guard, and I ended up deployed to Afghanistan.  I have been here for 6 months or so.  My life is rough and I am facing a divorce back home.  My friends in the 1140th MP Company urge me to have some fun on Facebook.  I am reluctant to mess with it, but they get me started anyway.  While searching for old friends, I find her.

I write to her to see how she is doing.  To my surprise, she is also having marital problems, and is facing divorce.  What are the odds that we would find each other after 20 years, and both are in the same situation facing divorce?  We confide in each other to help our dealings with our situations, and find each other to be a great comfort.  We talk for hours on end.  Is it really her?

Finally after months of emails online, it is time to come home.  I know she has talked with my parents and may be coming with them to see me when I get home.  We step off the bus April 17th 2010, and there in the parking lot stood my high school sweetheart.  Time stood still just as the first time I saw her.  Just as beautiful as ever, she had not changed. 

Almost two years has gone by since I got home.  We were engaged one year after I got home on April 17, 2011 at EcoZipLines where we had fun as zipline guides.  I arranged a simulated rescue of her in the middle of 900 feet of line, over 200 feet in the air, where we stopped high above the tree tops, and I proposed. 

We are now just a month away from our wedding day, and I cannot believe it.  I am so blessed to have my high school sweetheart, my best friend, my soul mate, in my life after all these years, and I look forward to the many years ahead. 

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I remember the very moment that God brought us back into each other’s lives. It was a feeling of relief....He found me and I found home!!! After what seems like a lifetime of being apart, we are once again drawn together like magnets.

We feel we had lost so much time, so many years and so many of life’s' experiences we did not share together.

It was time to get back on our journey. On April 17^th 2010 Todd returned from Afghanistan, where our long awaited reunion was finally here. To be in his arms again was like feeling completeness found nowhere else. Exactly one year later.....the proposal of a lifetime took place about 200 feet in the air on a zip line. And exactly one year from that day will be the joining of our lives forever, never to be separated from each other again.

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God has truly blessed our broken roads. He always knew we would be right here, right now and for whatever reason it took so many years until we are back together, we can only stop asking that question. We have faith hope and love. Our lifetime of learning had led us to our lifetime of living!

As we commit to sharing our live together from this day forward we invite you to share it with us.

To love and to be loved is like feeling the sun on both sides.