Married Life

The Story of our First Date

Have I ever told you about my first date with my husband?  I don’t think I have :).  Not in any kind of depth anyway…

I had a group of friends that did a thing back in 2009 called “Dinner Club”.  We’d choose restaurants around that weren’t chains, and we’d get dressed up and go to dinner.  We generally steered toward the fancy restaurants because who doesn’t like to see your man in a suit, lol.  I’m sorry, put a man in a tux, a suit, or a uniform and their hotness jumps a few levels :). haha.

A few days prior I had to give my RSVP to the group if I was coming or not.  I’d been debating on asking my hubby to go with me but… I felt bad because he said all he wore was blue jeans and t-shirts and I would require him to dress up so I debated and almost didn’t ask him to go with me.

So the night I finally got the courage up to ask he asked me to go with him that same night to a local rodeo.  Dang!  I love rodeo’s, but I also enjoyed going to Dinner Club.  So just after he asked me I told him I already had plans and you could hear his spirits drop.  I was like, but wait, I was going to ask you to go with me.  But we can go to yours instead because if you went to mine, you wouldn’t know anyone (like I’d know anyone if I went with him, but maybe) and you’d have to dress up.

Haha, he agreed and then he went shopping. :).

So the day of our date I just about tossed my cookies a few times with nerves.  I was afraid to see him again.  I was afraid he wouldn’t like me.  I was afraid I’d be late (I drove, he left the top down on his car the night before and it rained).  Let’s just say, I WAS NERVOUS!

I don’t remember the drive to Springfield.  I made it in supposedly record time.  He said I sped all the way, I don’t agree, but I don’t remember the drive either.  We had an hour to kill in Springfield so I drove him around showing him where I lived when I went to college, I showed him the “art” in this guys front yard… we just drove around.  Heck I even showed him the route I took to the dorms when I lived there.  Yes, I need a life.

We went to dinner, it was ok.  Then Evelyn got the idea that we should go to the mall.  I tested my limits/waters to see what he’d say if I said yes.  Evelyn’s husband Kalem threw more of a fit about going to the mall than my hubby did.  I thought ok, so it’s a first date, he’s trying to impress.

Then we parted way with Kalem, Evelyn, Jason & Josh at the Mall and left for my friend Jamie & Brian’s.  While there, we were sitting on a couch.  Actually he was sitting at one end, I was laying across with my head at the other, my feet in his lap.  Jamie’s daughter and her friend came up and started tickling me and I started flailing my arms/legs and that’s when it happened….  I accidentally kicked him in the nuts.  (sorry I said nuts, twice)  Poor guy, he keeled over in pain and I couldn’t help but giggle.

We went home around midnight that night, got to his mom’s by about 1 and stood in the driveway talking until 3am.  I had my first kiss and I went home, with plans to meet back up the next day.  Boy was this boy glutton for punishment or what!?!?

I kind of think he is because, um… he married me :).

Do you have any fun first date or dating stories about your spouse/significant other? or even a random stranger??

My Dearest Love

You have no idea how happy I am that God brought us back together. We drifted apart, but partially I think we both had to go make our “mark” on the world. You left yours on a wall in Afghanistan and I wrote mine in the beaches in Costa Rica. We took very different paths from each other but it’s so strange how we wound up back together.

I know there are times when the “what if’s” in life fall into our heads or pangs of jealousy even take over (yes I said it), but at the same time we’re strong as individuals but we’re stronger as a team. Never let those things rule our lives and I’ll try my best too. Sometimes I fall and I need you to help pick me up and guide me back on path, and I believe it’s ok to ask for help. Can’t maybe died in the corn patch, but needing help sure didn’t!

I love you more now than the day you proposed to me. And we’ve had our struggles as every married couple does, but let’s stay on track with each other by our side!

Love,

Cole

Should I be concerned – or not??

So I’m completely torn if this is a good thing or a bad thing.  Let me explain…

As I’ve pointed out many times I started dating my husband in late July 2009.  He proposed in February of 2010.  We bought our first house in (well started) April (finished in June).

Prior years to us dating, his dad’s side of the family used to go to an aunts house at the lake for the Fourth.  Then she sold that house and I guess they didn’t get together, I’m not sure.  So when we bought our house in 2010 he asked if we could host the 4th party.  I said ok.  Since then, it has been at our house every year.

My {step}daughter goes to camp every July since I’ve been around way off on the east coast.  Every year she has missed the party due to driving to camp or actually being at camp, etc, and this upsets her every year.  In fact, last year before camp she said she wasn’t going because she’d miss out on the party.  We told her the party was just one afternoon and she’d probably have way more fun at camp.  {This is a camp her mother sends her too, not sure if that’s relevant, just clarifying :)}  And it’s true, she always comes back from camp talking about stories.

I guess back in January she started hitting her mom up and complaining that she misses our 4th of July party every year because of camp.  Her mom contacted hubby and asked when it would be; she said that if her husband didn’t have to work that they’d try to work it out for Tbug to come out to the house for a bit before they absolutely had to leave for camp.

All things worked out and Tbug got to be at the house for the party until around 9:30.  She was super excited.

Ok so sorry for the lengthy lead up… now to the moment….

People started showing up around 3-3:30 and Tbug put on her swimsuit and jumped in the pool as guests arrived.  By about 7 or so she was complaining about being cold/tired. (Yes, it was 100+ but you have to understand our pool is always freezing.  I think it stays around 65 degrees)  I told her that if she was cold and done swimming to go in the house and put her clothes back on, that her daddy would be getting ready to help her set off some fireworks before long.

So around 8:15 one of her cousins showed up (another split family thing, her dad came to drop her off with her mom) and Tbug decided she wanted to get back in the pool.  She had been waiting on Cass all day so when Tbug asked if she could get back in the pool, I knew her mom would be there sometime between 8 and 9, but I told her that’s fine, you better hurry though.

So around 8:45 hubby got all the fireworks out, said we needed to hurry so she could set some off and said, “Can you get Tbug out of the pool?  Memaw tried and didn’t have any luck, maybe you’ll have better luck.”  I said sure, went and hollered at her to hurry up and change so she could shoot off fireworks and she was up and out of the pool and dressed in record time.

So my concern comes when my MIL couldn’t get Tbug out of the pool, but she did what I said immediately.  I’m not sure if I’m mean or I just explained things differently.  I can sure tell you I don’t want to be known as the Mean ol’ Mom or better yet, the Mean ol’ Step-mom!

A Little Husband Q&A Time

I saw a few of my fellow bloggy friends doing this and thought it looked like fun.  Yes, I became a follower, LOL.  Just so you know I was asking him through gtalk.  It probably would have made more sense to sit there and ask him, but I wasn’t around him at the time I wanted to conduct this survey so I had to make due 🙂  He was such a good sport about playing along, I think he shall get a reward, what do you think? 😉 haha :).  

Are you willing to answer questions for the ol’ blog?

I suppose so!!! XD

Ok what was the first thing you noticed about me?  Whether we were 15 or 26? (remember we went to school together)
You have a beautiful face!

A little bit of time lapsed here…

Is that the only question?
No, I got side tracked doing something… I’m back now

What is your favorite memory of us?

You giggling at me while getting married… We watched our wedding video the other night… whew! did I giggle.

What song best describes me?
She is Everything by Brad Paisley…. Good Choice baby 😉
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What is my best feature?
You have Great legs!!!!!!
Wow, so not what I thought you were going to say
What did you think I would say?
I don’t know but not my legs, you never comment on my legs
I have too before!!!!!!

Ok moving on… Do you like my blog?
As a matter of fact….. YES I do!

Complete this sentence: I make you laugh when….
You get tongue tied!…. I’ve said some pretty strange things unfortunately.  I still think the best was I may have been born last night but it wasn’t at night.  When it should have been, I may have been born at night but it wasn’t last night.  Maybe I should have asked him what his favorite was.

What would you miss most about me had we never met {back up after 10 years}?
How you make me feel complete!

What would you miss most about me had we NEVER met?
Okay was that not a correct answer?

One was the second time we met (the first question, remember there was 10 years between the last time we saw each other and our first date).

ahhhhh
The amazing friend I had to walk around with in Florida. (School Band trip our sophomore year of high school)
Anymore questions?

Yes, one more….

When did you know I was “The one”?

On our first date at Touch… by the end of that night I knew it!
**I knew that, but I just had to hear it again**



I Gonna Go be Old Now

I was wondering yesterday what I was going to blog about…. then:
Last night hubby and I sat down to watch Bunheads, the new tv show on ABC Family.  He went into the kitchen and grabbed a handful of cherries and brought them in for us to share.

All was going well.  We were sharing nicely.  Then I grabbed a juicy one, bit into it and shot my husband….

Do you see it?  He looks like he got shot with blood. hahahahahaha!  Oh you gotta love Married Life!

Another Walk Down Memory Lane

I decided to share more photos from my Facebook page.  I dunno, sometimes it is fun to go back and look at these.  I can see a difference in myself from the first one (seen here) to the second bunch (seen here) to these.  And these only go up to about April of 2010.  That was 2 years ago.  Dang!  What’s even harder to believe is next month will have been 3 years since I went on my first date with my hubby.

Over the weekend we were talking about how long he and his friend Robert have known each other.  16 years.  Dang that seems like a lifetime… ok maybe not but still, that is the age I was when I graduated high school :).  But really, they’ve known each other longer than they haven’t, if that makes sense.  They both turn 30 this year.

So then we got to talking about how long we’ve known each other {hubby and me} and we’re at 15 years.  I’ve still known him longer than I haven’t.  We met when I was 13 years old, technically we probably met before that, but I really can start to remember the obnoxious Tuba player starting my 8th grade year of school.  And our friendship started blossoming in 9th grade when he’d sing in class with me.  Now I wasn’t a student who acted out, but this one teacher would get under my skin and I’d sing, Garth Brooks “Two Pina Coladas”.  Yes, I know very uncool of me.

Anyway moving on….  Another walk down Memory Lane

Our First Christmas together.

Trying to learn my first dSLR which was a Canon Rebel XS.

Facebook had something going around once on show yourself as a kid.  This is my mom’s favorite photo of me as a child.

Just some random shot I took.  We were actually moving sheep around.

An early Sunday morning after Church.  It was actually very gray, my first attempt at photoshop.

“Will You Marry Me“

Our weekend trip to Branson the day after he proposed.

Wedding dress shopping.  Boy I was scared of this!  They almost had to take me kicking and screaming!  In fact the joke was they thought they were going to have to get me drunk.  No they didn’t, but I didn’t want to go.

Our engagement photos

I think it was this time that I looked up at him and said, “This feels so real.”  and it brought a little tear to his eye.

Linking up with 2 of my favorite gals here: Impulsive Addict & Seriously Shawn.  You should too b/c you can blog about anything… anything goes!

Another Walk…

…down Facebook Memory Lane

Right before his first show.

Before Dinner Club

Goofing Around

Our first Thanksgiving together

Our first Thanksgiving together

Playing around with the camera

On our way to Ft. Worth (for the first time)

Brunch at Joe T Garcias in Ft. Worth

Our first trip to KC

Our First Christmas together.

I’m not going to lie, sometimes I question why I used some of the photos I did, but whatever, I did so let’s all laugh now 🙂

Time of My Life

Date: March 17, 2012
Age: 28
Size: Don’t judge when I tell!  I’m between sizes in everything.  
Shirts M {generally}, jeans I swear I need a 9  
{10’s too big, 8’s not quite big enough but I can get into them, so I go for 10 so no/not as bad muffin top :)}
Friday Nights: Every other Friday night pick Tbug up at 7pm from Cheerleading.
Then the off weekends, generally go home and watch Sweet Home Alabama {the reality show}
Hair Style: My roots have grown out.  Little past shoulder length,
Long bangs cut to the right.
Favorite place to dine out: Zio’s {Chicken Parmesan} in Springfield.  
Around here Lucky J’s {Queso Burger with green beans, no bun}
Favorite Outfit: Denim jacket, Lucky Jeans or Patrol Jeans.
Love Life: We’ve started to hit some bumps in the road, but I think the stress of general life & school for both of us has it’s lasting effects from time to time.  I think we’re leaving the Honeymoon phase and  moving into the good parts.  Remember, The first part is exciting, the second part is where the real depth comes in!

Home Life: Our life is taking a different turn than we thought it would a year and a half ago when we got married.  Some days I just want to pull my hair out.  We’ve actually kept the house relatively clean since hubby cleaned it in February and that eases a bit of the stress.  Our dogs LOVE to litter our yard with their latest finds so we aren’t ever quite sure what we’ll find.  The most recent was a pool float that they must have pulled out of the garage because I don’t know where else it could have been.

TV shows: The Pioneer Woman’s cooking show on Food Network, Sweet Home Alabama {The reality show}, Grey’s Anatomy, Big Bang Theory, Dancing with the Stars (I think I’ll watch again this season)

Extra time: Yeah I don’t really have extra time these days.  School pretty much eats into my extra time and it’s kind of sad and depressing at times.

What excites me: *Playing with my camera *Playing with photoshop *Enjoying this beautiful weather we’ve been having *Riding horses

A moment I never want to forget:  *When we won the horse breeding back in December {The excitement that hubby & I shared that night in the kitchen when I should have been studying for a test} *Dissecting the cow eyeball *Holding a human brain


Questions from Here – Jessica @ Stilleto’s & a Fishing Pole