1. How long have you and your
significant other been together?
We have been together since the
summer of 2005 so almost 7 years.
2. How did you meet? {What's
your "love" story?}
He first laid eyes on me the
night of my brother’s wedding in May of 2005.
I was of course, wasted face, with someone else and probably acting like
a real jackass. It was love at first
sight for him and I was lucky if I remembered my own name, let alone someone
new.
A week later, I was playing
coed softball with a couple of my girlfriends. Barney was there playing on another team. He started talking to my friend Maria because
he knew her (he played softball with her before, was friends with her brother
and a few others on our team that day).
I was eating fruit snacks and offered him one I accidentally dropped on
the ground (sharing means caring). After
talking for a bit, he remembered me from the weekend prior (because who could
forget THAT). I also told him how much I
loved bacon (that’s how you win over a guy’s heart).
The following week, we were
playing in another softball tournament (we love softball, what can I say?!). He was there, trying to get on my sweet side
all day. I was oblivious to it because
why would he like me, right?! He got my
number that weekend but ended up losing it.
He didn’t call me for a few days and all I could think was his loss,
seriously his loss. Ends up he had to
call a few people to track down my number (that must be love folks). He took me to Wedding Crashers on our first
date a few weeks later. He didn’t have a
license at the time, which I didn’t know.
I made comments such as “why are you driving the speed limit” or “why
are we taking this route” so on (seriously though, I have never taken the route
he took us on to get to town and what dude ever drives the speed limit). Plus we got a flat tire that night.
A couple weeks after that, we
attended our county fair together. We
were both drunky poo, but he asked me in the sweetest but corniest way if I
would be his girlfriend (if that wasn’t already given). And the rest is history.
3. If married, how long have you been married? If not, is this the guy you hope
to marry? {do tell}
We got married on September 12,
2009 (that’s about 2 ½ years).
4. If you are married, where did you get married at? Big or small wedding?
If not, where would you like to get married? And will it be big or small?
We
had a full Catholic ceremony at a rather large church that’s located in the
country. It was the church my family
attended growing up and it’s about ½ mile down the road from my parent’s
house. We had 6 bridesmaids, 6
groomsmen, 4 ushers and 2 personal attendants.
We sent out around 300 invitations and had probably tripled that, in
people, at our reception.
The wedding reception was held at a roller skating rink. Yes, you may say that screams redneck or
small town or whatever you want but when the decorations go up and the lights
go down, it’s actually pretty classy.
Plus it’s the biggest reception hall, closest to where all our guests
were coming from outside of the “big city”.
My
brother and my sister also were married at the church and had their receptions
at the same place. We like to switch it
up in our family.
We
had an awesome DJ and he was cheap, I don’t think the dance floor was ever
empty. We also very cheap entertainment
and a lot of people who were having way, way too much fun.
Cue, photo dump....enjoy!
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| Bach party...my favorite ladies!! |
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| Loved my wedding dress! |
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| My parents |
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| Personal attendants and a little self-fondle |
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| Wedding party |
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| Hubs family |
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| My brothers and sister |
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| We're married! |
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| Cake cutting |
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| The entertainment |
5. Do you have any nick-names that you call one
another? Do share!
I and everyone else that knows him call
him Barney. I prefer calling him sugar
lips or Mr. Round Tree…kidding…tell me the show and you win. He calls me Little Bug to my face but
probably devil woman behind my back.
6. Name 3 things you love most about your honey.
His athleticism, his sense of
humor and ability to make me laugh daily, and how good of a dad he is to Quinn.
7. Tell us how he proposed? Or your ideal proposal?
He proposed on September 12,
2008 (do you see the correlation? See
#3!). It was a Friday night, I had just
got home from work to our shitty, shitty little apartment. He wasn’t home. I started getting ready because we were going
to a wedding reception that night and had my music blaring, of course. He got home, asked me turn the music down and
then to come out to the kitchen/living room area because he needed help with
something (our bathroom was to the back of the apartment). I came out and all I saw was him holding the
box open with the perfect diamond in it.
He asked me to marry him and I think I went completely silent (or was in
shock because the night before I told him I wanted a ring…little did I
know). He asked me a couple more times
and then finally got on his knee. I gave
him a kiss and a hug and of course said yes.
8. Is he a flowers and teddy bear kind of guy for v-day, or strawberries, champagne, and
rose petals?
Definitely flowers. Every once in a great while he’ll get flowers
and a bottle of wine.
9. Are you a sunset dinner
on the beach kind of girl, or pop a movie in and relax
on the couch?
Both. I like getting dolled up and going out for
dinner and a little romance but I also enjoy a relaxing night at home in
sweats. It depends on what we want to do
with Quinn which is more often than not, just relaxing at home.
10. Tell us one thing you'd
like to do with your significant one day. If you could do anything?
Go anywhere?
It
would be fun to do something adventurous like skydiving with the hubs. Not sure he’d be down with it. In fact he’s not, at the mere mention of it,
he said ‘fuck that’. Such a peach. So, we could ziplining…that’s somewhat
adventurous.
11. Tell us what you plan on doing on this Valentine's Day.
Hubs has a stag to go to so
Quinn and I will be spending the night together playing or snuggling. She’ll want to go to bed around 7 and then
I’ll have peace and quiet to myself, just like every other Tuesday night since
about October.
12. Are you asking for anything this Valentine's day?
No, love is all I need. BAHAHAHA.
Actually since we won’t be together on V-Day, hubs is taking me out for
all you can eat shrimp the weekend before…so that’s this weekend if I can do
math correctly.
13. Give us one piece of advice of keeping a relationship strong and full of
love.
Communication, trust and
respect are key. But you also need time
away from each other doing the things you each love to do because I don't know about you but I definitely don't enjoy the same things my husband does, aside from softball.
This is especially good advice when you have children. Oh and go on dates without your child
there. I know it may seem stupid because
maybe your child is 7 months old like ours is and is the best baby in the world
but when you’re with your children, you’re not concentrating on one
another. You need adult time. AND SEXY TIME…whoops, sorry mom, it’s only
happened once.
14. Show us a picture of what love means to you.
Our sweet, lovable little love child. She's the best and brightest part of our lives. It's hard to imagine our life without her in it. She's the best representation of love there is.
