Me and My Boyfriend

This time of the year makes me remember being a 14 year old girl (yes, I said FOURTEEN) and laying my eyes on a boy named John. It was the fall of 1982. Middle school. I would see this boy, always surrounded by girls in the halls at school. I definitely thought he was cute. Didn't know anything about him. At the end of October I was at my best friend Laurie's house. She lived two houses down and we became fast friends when she moved in about five years before that. That night I looked at her cork board that she had behind her bedroom door, checking to see if anything was new. There HE was! A picture on her cork board was of John with his arm around some girl. I had no idea she knew of him. She told me that she thought that his name was John Williams (close...) and that the picture was taken at the end of the previous school year. That was his girlfriend in the picture at that time, she didn't know too much about him. She had an art class with both John and "Wendi" and snapped their picture together.

I HAD to find out more about him and MEET him. Soon. Then I found out that my very close cousin Todd also had a class with him and would "help me out". Long story short, he found out I liked him, we met, we got to know each other, started liking each other, started going out, broke up, went back out, broke up, went back out, dated for quite a while (especially 15 - 18). Then we broke up after graduation (shortly after prom, which this picture is from) (I was DEVASTATED) and stayed broke up for several months. For six weeks we lost communication altogether. We both dated others. At the end of those six weeks I really started missing him and wondering what he was doing. What IF he was seeing someone else and REALLY liked her? Did he think about me? I panicked. I called him. He was kind of cold at first and then we began talking on the phone again. Started seeing each other again. That summer in July (1987) we got engaged. WOW! Set the date for April 9, 1988. I was SO excited.

And...the rest is history. We will be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary next April. We've known each other TWENTY FIVE YEARS this month!

Yay us!