7.13.12 (:

*The best day of our lives so far happened on July 13 at 10:30 am. When I married my best friend and partner in life.*

Kevin and I met back in 2004 our freshman year of high school. It was a new school. A new area to live in. A new life. I knew no one at this school besides my boy friend at the time; who I met when he moved us out of our old house and into our new one. I was on the cross country team. He -Kev was on the football team. It was the day before orientation, when we all had to register for school. I had watched him and all the other boys run on the football field while the cross country team was stretching. A smile and a head nod was his response to my staring. All practice I watched him, #60. Later that day as I was at my registration and there he was. Surround by all his friends he already had. But still a smile he gave me. The next day was orientation, I hoped all night I would end up in his group or something but I wasn't. I was finally making a few friends within my group, chatting about what high school girls chatted about and then a group of boys walked by and there he was. Still with that smile. A smile I can honestly say I was the one who got it. He always made my heart flutter and butterflies fly. He ended up being in almost every single one of my freshman classes, but that only lasted for a while seeing as he was always getting into trouble and then getting kicked out of that class. In our econ/gov class he sat right next to me. I felt like I was floating. Finally something more then just smiles. But he was always getting in trouble for us talking. Having to do planks in front of the class room and couldn't leave for lunch tell everyone was out of the class room. "Wait for me please." He would say every time. And every time I did. Knowing all we would do is walk down to lunch together and part ways it always meant the world to me.  Finally one day the smile and class room conversations turned into a conversation every time we saw each other, a conversation that then lead to hugs every time we saw each other. And it was never one of those half hugs, I'm needing to get to class so I'm just hugging you so you wont feel like I don't like you hug. It was a full on lift you up off the ground just for you hug. Which was always the best time of my days.

One day after practice I was walking back to the school from the stadium without my shoes on like I always did. Kev runs by and grabs the shoes away from me. As exhausted as I was I started after him. I stepped on a rock and of course it hurt and he turns around and says "Well if you had your shoes on it wouldn't of hurt." Running through the school and he ends up in the boys locker room. So I ran into the girls locker room putting on flip flops and headed out to the commons to find him. There he was against the wall, with my shoes. He passed them to me and off to home I went. This all went for weeks to months to the whole 2 years of school we had together. Best time of my school days spent seeing him from the background. We were both on different levels of dating and wanting to be together. It never came up in high school not once. Both of us always being with someone else did make that hard too.

The summer of Junior year, cross country practice was finally in kick start which meant so was football too. I waited which felt like forever to get out there and see him again. But days went by and I still didn't see him. School started and still no sign of him. People started coming up with rumors that he died in an car accident. Which seeing as no one knew where he had went I didn't see why it would of been true. But I knew he wasn't "dead". I bugged my dean for months and months to tell me where he went. He would tell me run good in this weeks meet and I will tell you. And nothing. Until finally one day half way through the year I just couldn't take it anymore I needed to know what happened to him. Remembering all the times we had in all our classes. From him getting in trouble when we always chatted to saving me from the really weird kid who sat next to me in our math class that was always singing to me.

"Brit he just moved, that's all. He has moved. He isn't dead. Nothing that extreme." Was what my dean told me. And finally I was able to just breathe. Whew. He may have moved but I knew we would find each other  again some day. We didn't talk for 3 years. So much happened to both of us in those 3 years but when I saw him again in Halloween of 2009 every feeling came back. My friends really really wanted me to go to a haunted house with them but I am such a scared little girl with those I told them I would only go if I had someone to go with. Randomly I got a message from Kev on face book. After 3 years I get a smile face and a hello. Just like nothing had changed. I invited him to come out with me and regardless of his plans he had made for that Friday night he went with me. Nothing had really changed. It was like we just picked up where we left off the end of our sophomore year. Life then ended up getting in the away yet again and lost contact for another year.

December 25th 2010. Woke up Christmas morning with my family and had this feeling that I really really needed to talk to Kev other wise I felt like he would be taken from my life for good. There wouldn't be anymore random conversations online or texting. That all the things we did in between not really talking would be over. No more contact. Nothing. So I text him, Happy Christmas. And of course I got a Kev response back, Its Merry Christmas but that's just you being geeky. (: 3 days later I went over to his new apartment and helped him set up while eating mac n cheese. After not seeing each for over year and never hanging out outside of school I could tell we were both really nervous. But after a while things just seemed to click into place.

Love knows no boundaries. Love, it was instant. From that day on the football field until 3 days after Christmas there was always love between us. Everyone knew it. Everyone saw it. But us really. A love that has held on no matter what was going on with us. Until we were together and ready to be together. Everything from that moment in December just fell into place so perfectly. And I could not ask for more.

 Your my happily ever after (: