The Story Of Us

In honor of my fast approaching Anniversary I figured I'd blog about it! I know the next few day's I'll be busy so there is no time like the present! 
My husband Wayne and I will celebrate out 7th wedding anniversary this Saturday July 2nd. Seven years ago we said I do and wow wee I had never loved any man more than I loved him on that very day! We got married after dating for nine months (I also should ad we were friends 2 months or so prior to our first date), some may consider that fast but well it's working for us at least it has seven years! Most of my close friends know how Wayne and I met but for those of you who don't I'll share with you, I met Wayne online ha ha! Yes on a website known as hot or not. Basically I had a friend who dared me to put my picture on there so I did users could rate your picture (now mind you I did not nor do I now consider myself hot lol I lean more towards not but this was just a joke between two friends) if you wanted to interact with other users you had to have a paid account, I did not have said paid account cause it was just fun and giggles and this just for the record was a picture of my face lol! Well Wayne and some buddies were bored in Kuwait and they decided they would upload pictures, Wayne had the paid account ha ha ha! And he liked my picture and sent me an email with his yahoo address so we would chat online about our day's and what we had been up to. Eventually those chats on yahoo IM  lead to a phone call, we'd chat for hours and hours on the phone and I'm not a phone person I'd rather text, chat in person, chat online or email! So he finally decided to ask me out after a few months of talking as friends. And I of course accepted I remember our first date it was when the newer Texas Chainsaw Masicar had came out and nothing screams romance like a good horror film lol so we had a nice dinner at the Texas Roadhouse and hit up the Texas Chainsaw Masicare got some coffee after and shopped around some of the stores. Then we decided we'd get together the next night to watch a WWE pay per-view yes I use to watch that junk as some probably would call it lol! So we drove to his place so I'd know where to show up after that I was on my way home and I was beaming with happiness cause we really clicked. From our first date we became inseparable, every bit of free time we had was spent together. Finally when I knew that I knew it was something that would last I let him meet my older three children and when he did meet them I couldn't have asked for someone else to ever treat my kids as good as he did they hit it off! He gave him attention, time and love that even their own biological father didn't. Eventually I got to meet his daughter and we hit it off and the kids all seemed to as well. Well fast forward a bit I lived like an hour away from Wayne so he had to do some traveling to come visit me and I was on a fixed income so I traveled what I could. After I graduated with my Associates he asked me to marry him, no..no big fancy popping of the questionl he took his daughter all the way back to her mama's about an hour away and drove back to my place just to ask me to marry him. However I do have to say there was this one time I thought he was going to ask me to marry him lol but he turned something sweet and romantic....into fishing I should have known really seriously we were out to eat and he was holding both my hands looking into my eyes saying how much he loved me and how he didn't know what he'd do without me and how he never wanted to lose me then he said I have something I want to ask you yes you know I was thinking he was going to say will you marry me or something along those lines but he said looking deeply into my eyes, Honey, can I have a bass boat! I just laughed at him what-else could you do lol! Anyways lets get back to the original story I'm very ADD like from time to time. But he came back and asked me that night and of course I said yes. We started looking at houses and finally found a house to meet the needs of our family of three plus one over other weekend that we loved I still get teary eyed when I think about our first house I miss that place and time too! So we had a home we closed on the house June 28th. We didn't have a big wedding with having 4 kids to take care of who had the money for that stuff I joked and said some girls get an engagement ring I got an engagement house!  So we took two of our close friends and we headed to the court house in Fayetteville,NC on July 2, 2004, we filed for our marriage license cause there is no waiting time you just have to have your paperwork in line when you get there. But after doing that we learned the magistrate wasn't at the courthouse that day but instead at the new detention center and if we wanted to get married well that's where we had to go. So off we went with our friends Michael and Jaime with Michael singing as we walked out of the courthouse to head to the dentition center..."Your in the jailhouse now...." How fitting for marriage some people would think lol! So we made it to the dentition center said our do's and the rest as they say is history. We have had many many ups and downs. There was a time I didn't think we'd make it but we have survived the tests of time, kids and each other! I love Wayne dearly, completely and with every ounce of my heart, and soul. Even when he makes me so mad there is no one else on this earth I'd rather be mad at than him! Over the last seven years our family has grown from a family of  4 kids 2 adults to 6 kids and 2 adults. Although we don't get to see his daughter she is still a part of our family, she always will be, we love and and miss her but the life of a teenager is a busy one. So Happy Anniversary to my sweetheart I love you more! xoxo