Healthy, Wealthy and Hot

A program for caring couples who want to keep their marriage loving, passionate, and filled with romance.

Date: March 13-14 2010
Saturday: 9am-4pm
Sunday: 1pm-4pm
Location: Gaston Memorial Hospital/Elm Room

Meals Included

A relationship investment that will pay big dividends! – Jayme S.

What you will learn:

Unless you’re a rock, you will learn lots of very useful (and fun) ways to get closer to the one you love. Very Rewarding! – Ed G.

In this engaging, fun, and highly interactive program you’ll be introduced to concepts, skills, and techniques to:

-       Deal with large and small conflicts in your marriage,

-       Communicate effectively,

-       Feel truly loved by your spouse,

-       Understand the rules of money and how they apply to your relationship,

-       Deal with kids and their effect on your marriage,

-       Stop taking each other for granted,

-       Deal effectively with intimacy in your marriage,

-       Build an action plan for a great marriage.

Kevin and Joy have a deep and heartfelt commitment to marriage. Listen to them! – David K.

Who should attend?

You should attend if:

• You’ve been married for a while and you feel like you’re drifting apart from your spouse,
• You’re engaged or recently married and looking for simple and practical ways to keep your marriage healthy, happy, and fun,
• You’re happily married and want to keep the passion in your marriage,
• You’re single and considering a committed relationship.

Seminar Materials

All attendees receive a skills workbook to use as you work to create a great relationship.

Each couple that returns a completed action plan after 90 days will receive a Certificate of Commencement recognizing their work on building a better marriage.

100% Money Back Guarantee

Use the skills, strategies, and techniques you are taught in this seminar for 90 days and if for any reason after that time you’re not completely satisfied and absolutely delighted with your results simply call or write us. We’ll issue you a refund or arrange for you to attend another seminar without paying a penny. Whichever you choose, no questions asked, at any time.

Refunds

Here’s our cancellation policy in detail:

If you are unable to attend an event that you have paid for and you give us 72 hours notice, we will refund your fee.

Your registration fee will not be refunded if you do not attend or cancel less than 72 hours before the event. You may choose to attend another event at a later date.

A great way to jumpstart your marriage, even after 20 years! – Lisa S.

Registration

There are three convenient ways for couples to register for this program:

1. By mail – complete the contact information below and send it along with a check for $27 to cover the cost of materials to:

First Things First of Gaston County
P.O. Box 953
Gastonia, NC  28052

Name(s):_______________________________________________________

Address:_______________________________________________________

City/St/Zip:_____________________________________________________

Phone:(___)_______________

2. By phone – call the First Things First office at 704-867-4495.

3. Online

Go to http://www.firstthingsgaston.org and follow the links to register.

This class helped my wife and I better understand our feelings and commitments to each other.
– Mike W.

1. Fill your sweeties car with red balloons and surprise them with a pin to pop them with. Bonus points for sticking a love note, quote, or message in each one.

2. Visit your local car dealer and take a test drive together.

3. Go to a youth baseball, football, or basketball game together and root for both teams.

4. Get out your camera and take pictures of the city together. Ask strangers to take pictures of the two of you together. Upload your photos and share them with your friends.

5. Dress up formally and have dinner at a fast food restaurant.

6. Visit your local dollar store with a $5 bill each and come up with creative gifts for each other.

7. Find the best, worst, ugliest, most romantic piece of art at a local gallery.

8. Take a drive to nowhere, get lost, and explore a new way home.

9. Go garage sale shopping. Have a price limit – $10 can get you quite a bit at a yard sale.

10. Get bent out of shape together. Sign up for a free yoga class at a local gym or studio.

11. Check out your local colleges for guest lectures from visiting professors.

12. Visit your local farmers market and sample all the fresh offerings. Choose a new vegetable or fruit and create a dish together.

13. Go bowling and don’t keep score.

14. Visit your airport and watch the planes take off and land. Wave at the pilots and passengers

15. Buy a pint of your favorite ice cream and toppings. Make sundae’s for each other on Saturday night.

16. People watch at the mall and make up funny, silly, or outlandish stories about the people you see.

17. Have a film festival with your sweetie. Pick a theme ­ such as best musical, worst horror movie, or
guy movies.

18. Find out where the closest zoo is and visit the animals.

19. Instead of a romantic dinner, schedule a romantic breakfast for two.

20. Visit your parks and rec department or library for a workshop, class, or lecture.

21. Head to a used book store and explore for hidden treasures.

Use these ideas to keep your marriage healthy, loving, and fun on a budget.

One of the tricks I’ve learned to help me be romantic is to keep a few funny romance cards in my briefcase. I also keep a mushy one or two because they seem to have an even bigger impact. I will occasionally pop a card in the mail for no reason other than the fact that I’m thinking about Joy and want her to know she’s on my mind.

Valentine’s Day is coming which is the perfect time for sending cards to your sweetie. To make it more special try remailing it. Huh? you may be asking ‘What’s remailing?’

There are certain cities that provide a service where you send them your card in a pre-addressed and stamped envelope which is in a larger envelope. They open the larger envelope, take out the smaller one and ‘Remail’ it. Of course that means a new cancellation mark and a card postmarked from Loveland or Valentine is special.

There are seven Lovelands in the U.S. There are six Valentines. Loveland Colorado and Valentine Nebraska both provide a remailing service along with many other holiday named towns. Information and links for Loveland nd Valentine are provided below.

Note that this is a FREE service! Pick up a card or two and Remail them. Your sweetie will be glad you did!

LOVELAND, Colorado

To receive a unique cancellation and Valentine cachet, just enclose your pre-stamped, pre-addressed valentines in a larger 1st Class envelope and mail it to:

Postmaster – Attention Valentines
446 E. 29th St
Loveland C0 80538.

Your Valentines will be removed from that envelope and hand stamped with the Loveland cachet, then cancelled at the Loveland Post Office.

To ensure delivery, U.S.-destined mail must be received in Loveland by Feb. 10, or Feb. 12 if they are to be mailed within the state.

VALENTINE, Nebraska

As the “Heart City” of America, Valentine is the site from which thousands of Valentine’s Day greetings are mailed each year. Visitors and residents alike find that Valentine’s Day greetings bearing the Heart City’s postmark adds an extra special touch to the annual lover’s holiday.

If you would like to send special greetings with the special Valentine postmark, please complete the following.

Address your card as you would if you were sending the card from your location, stamp and all

Place those cards into a larger envelope and mail them to:

Cupid’s Mailbox
PO Box 201
Valentine, NE 69201.

To have your cards delivered by February 14th, they need
to be delivered to Cupids mailbox by Wednesday, February
5th. All letters received after this date will still receive
the cachet but might not be delivered until after
Valentine’s Day.

The Post Office will start sending out stamped letters on
February 5th.

For more information on Valentine, Nebraska go to:
http://www.heartcity.com/valentine-cache.html