How did your love story begin?

Our love story began in 1989. We worked together in a restaurant. I was just turning 20 and he was 28 with two young children. I always say I know I was so young, but I fell in love with him the moment I met him. We dated and I accepted his children as if they were my own. We dated for two years and then got engaged. We went through a lot before we got to the altar, but we never gave up. We now have four children and seven grandchildren. We have entered the next phase of our life and love it!

What is your favorite memory you've shared as a couple?

Our favorite memory is when we went to Jamaica on a work trip for my husband‘s company and we took our eight month old son. My husband and I were walking on the beach and a photographer asked us if we wanted to get married on the beach, but we told him that we were already married so he said we could renew our wedding vows. We had been married five years. They wanted to use our photographs for wedding packages in Jamaica. They provided everything needed to renew our wedding vows on the beach.

What would you do with $20,000?

We would love to do a beach trip with our kids and grandkids. Maybe renew our wedding vows on the beach again with all of them present. Altogether there are 17 family members. It is difficult at times to get us all together at once. It would be a wonderful time to spend with all of them and make it an experience they never forget and always treasure.