August 14th, 2003 - Starlake Ampitheater - Lawn Seating
I was there with a bunch of my girlfriends to see the Counting Crows & John Mayer concert. Gary was there with some of his friends. Before this night, we didn't even know that the other one existed! If you know Gary and I at all then you are know we are both pretty outgoing people. Well we all started talking waiting for the concert to start. As the night went on, all our friends went their separate ways hanging out and watching the show. Gary and I spent the entire evening sitting together talking. When the show was over, Gary took my hand, kissed it and said it was very nice meeting you. And then he walked away. My friends came over and were all like Did you get his number???? I just said NO! They said well you better get it, you just spent the whole night talking to him! So I did something that changed my life forever and ran after him. I litterally chased him down! When I caught up to him he told me to give him my number instead. So I did. I remember going home that night and telling my mom all about him. She had a theory that he only wanted my number so I wouldn't have his because he had no intention of calling me! hahaha She was wrong! He called the next day and the next weekend we had our first date! And if thats not fate then I don't know what is!
Fast forward to May 2004 - I moved to Morgantown to be closer to him.
December 2004 - We got engaged at Oglebay in Wheeling. That is another fun story! Gary had this great elaborate plan of how he was going to propose. We were going to go see the lights and we were going to go on the horse drawn carriage ride that they have. At the end of the ride he would get down and ask me to marry him. WELL it rained that evening. And they don't take the carriage out in the rain because its not safe. No big deal to me, we will just drive thru the lights like we always do. So we drive thru and Gary pulls in to a parking lot - looking directly at the Santa Clause lights! He hates that I always include that in the story! "We parked in front of the Santa Clause... blah blah blah" hahaha He was so discouraged that his plan was all messed up, he just turned to me and said so, do you want to get married? I like to tease him about his proposal all the time, I tell him I want a do-over some day! But really, it was perfect just the way it was! I love our imperfect - perfect for us - relationship!
Fast Forward to August 6, 2005 - We got MARRIED! :)
Its been a pretty amazing 6 years! And looking back I wouldn't change a thing! We have had a lot of stuff happen these past 6 years. In May 2006 we moved to Pittsburgh. In June 2010 Lyla was born. In April 2011 we bought our first house. But deep down we are still those two crazy kids hanging out in the lawn at Starlake! We just have to act like grown ups now most of the time!
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