thestoryofus — To Someone Somewhere

^{Our wedding day, March 7th, 2010.}

^{Fall, 2005. Check out our sweet hair ;)}

In honor of throwback Thursday, I thought I would share a little bit about how we met and came to be together!

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It was 2004 and I was a young little thing. Never would I have guessed that I would meet the man I would some day marry at 14 years old (and yet I guess I always sort of loved the idea of a Cory & Topanga kind of romance).

It wasn’t quite love at first site. I was standing in our church lobby with a friend when Ryan approached me, on behalf of his friend, stating “My friend thinks you’re really pretty. Which you are. But don’t let it go to your head.” Oh, well, gee, thanks! It was all so very high school.

Time passed and there was a group of us who would all hangout together after church. I actually even ended up briefly dating the previous mentioned friend - we even went to my freshman year homecoming together. That faded quickly but amicably though. Then it was almost summer of 2005 and a group of us were going to a CD store to see Ryan’s new band Between The Trees play a show. We were all hanging out and killing time before the show began. We decided to drive over to the mall. Problem was, there wasn’t enough room in the cars. So they were having the girls sit on the boys lap. I was supposed to sit on Ryan’s. I refused. “I’m sorry I don’t feel comfortable sitting on your lap. I don’t know you that well. It’s not appropriate." Good girl! This surprised Ryan and caught his attention. We ended up getting into a really great conversation and talked for while. That moment and the subsequent conversations allowed us to see each other in a new way. It sparked both of our interests. A lightbulb went off in my head and I was like "hmm… I might like him.”

The next week I saw him at church and asked if he had my number. He didn’t, so I gave it to him and told him to call me. Very forward of me, I know. He did and we talked until 4 a.m. that night. Soon after I went up North for the summer to visit family. We talked a lot that summer, and when I returned we began dating. We shared our first “I love you” on August 3rd, 2005. Older friends, parents, and siblings would often comment “Aww puppy love! So cute.” But I knew it was so much more than that. I just knew this was the man I would someday marry.

Ryan would’ve married me right on my eighteenth birthday – but I knew I wanted to wait a little while longer. I wanted to complete at least a little bit of college before getting married. I completed my AA degree in 2009, and that October Ryan proposed (which, by the way, was pretty much the sweetest/best proposal ever). We married on March 7th, 2010 – an intimate outdoor wedding. It was such an amazing, romantic day, and one I will never forget.

One of the blessings of meeting Ryan so young is that we really grew up together. We went through so much & grew so much. Instead of growing apart we just grew closer together, and share such a deep connection because of it. I love chasing our dreams together and now starting this crazy adventure of parenthood together. I know our love is forever and I feel so blessed to have such an amazing man to share my life with.

There is obviously so much more to our whole story, but this little snippet will have to do for now. ♥