FIVE Years and Counting

Five years ago today Matt and I started dating.  It was my first year at college and his second. I was on a theatre scholarship and he was on a speech scholarship.  At our school the theatre director was the assistant coach of speech so Matt knew him very well, and Matt auditioned for the play that year (his very first play.)  When I first saw Matt I thought to myself, "ohh he is cute, I could see myself becoming "friends" with him."  I soon found out that he was dating someone, so I gave up on that.  A few weeks later we got our parts and found out that in the play I was cheating on my husband with Matt's character!  So throughout the whole month of August we were on stage together, back stage together, & running lines in the hall.  We had so many lines and scenes together we had to practice, just the two of us.  We became very good friends but he still had a girlfriend so we were ONLY friends.  In the middle of September it was club day, and Quinn (our director) asked Matt and I if we would sit at the theatre table because we were the only two who could get out of class at that time.  We talked about music, and found out we both had a very simular taste in music.  We also talked about being Christians!  After finding these two things out about him I was really starting to form a "crush" on him.  Toward the end of our time at the table Quinn came over and asked Matt where his girlfriend was, and Matt said, "we broke up last night."  BINGO!!!!  After finding that out, it was Game On!  Two days later we were talking on Myspace (yeah Myspace), we were just having casual conversations about the play.  I really needed to head to work so I told him I had to go but he could text me, and gave him my number, and he asked me out on a date that day.  For a week straight we would text everyday all day, and stayed on the phone until 3 AM, then would go to school the next day and spend even more time together.  Exactly a week later it was time for our first date! He picked me up, opened the door, and brought me flowers.  He was the most caring guy I had ever dated.  For the next week the same thing happened, texting, staying up all night on the phone, and being together all day at school.  One week after our first date we went on our second date and he asked me to be his girlfriend.  

The past 5 years have been like a fairy tale! He is such a fun person to be around.  I know that God has made him for me and me for him! We are such an amazing team! That is what marriage is about, being the best team possible.


Until next time...Mark 10:6-9  

                                                                          2007

                                Honeymoon 2012 (sorry we are so sweaty)