Story of Love

It has been almost a year since I met the man I'm going to marry. It was dec 28th, 2008 when I first saw him. We were at the church that his family and my family attended. We were both home on christmas break and had no intention of meeting ANYONE. It had been a year since I broke up with my serious boyfriend, and I had finally got to the point where I was ok with myself, and comfortable alone. I had started to have this great confidence, and didnt need a boy to define me anymore. . I had started to really focus on school and changed my priorities and desires, and I guess thats all God was waiting for, because soon after my heart changed, I met Jared. So we saw each other at church, I sat right behind him. Little did I know all the women in my family ( aunt, grandmother, sister, mother) were all checking him out thinking how cute he was, and how weird it would be if I started dating him. You have to understand our church is filled with maybe 5 families total, so the chances of me meeting my husband at this church were impossible. . so i thought. . . :)
Come to find out he was terrified to come talk to me, so thats why I say the 28th was when i first SAW him, there was no official meeting, haha. He said I was too pretty for him and was scared to even approach me, how cute! Anyways, thank God for texting, such a less embarrassing way to meet a person :)haha. So we texted a little bit that sunday, and I couldnt help but drool over how cute I thought he was and how random it was, that there was a guy around my age at this tiny tiny church. I had never seen him in my life, and we have apparently been going to the same church for 3 years. Since we both are away at college, we must have come home at different times or something, although he said he had seen me before the 28th, I just never saw him, oops. I guess that goes to show you God has his perfect timing, and his timing is the best!!
So the next day came around and I was very sick, but my sister kept pressuring me to go to her friend Isaacs house to hang out for awhile. Now Isaac is Jareds older brother, I dont know if I mentioned this but Jared is my boyfriend, haha. So she kept begging me to go with her over to isaacs house because she wanted to see Jared, she liked him!!!! I was not going to go until the last minute. I am so happy I finally decided to go :)
I got to Isaacs house and I walked in and couldnt stop staring at this huge guy. He is 6'5 and I am 5'3, so you can imagine the crick in my neck after about an hour of staring, haha. I thought he was even cuter than the day before. I was smitten I guess you could say. So as the night went on, I was still very sick, so I just sat and watched everyone hang out, and play games and such. Since I kept starting Jared kept waving at me, it was so awkward, but I just couldnt seem to pull my eyes off of him. I had this feeling that I was meant to meet him, for whatever reason.
I ended up going upstairs because I felt way to sick. I layed down on this couch, and 5 minutes later, Jared shows up. He said he had to " go the bathroom", but there was a working bathroom downstairs :). He sat on the couch, and we started talking, and ended up talking all through the night, until 10am the next day. It ended up being about 11 hours that we just talked and talked and talked, and we really learned so much about each other, and that night I knew he would be my boyfriend someday. God had sent me this guy who had totally exceeding my expectations. It was the coolest night ever. The next day we texted like every minute, no lie, the texts were 9:21 9:22 9:23 9:24, the phone never left my hand. We talked about how awesome God is and how awesome it was that we had met each other, and how much we were IN LIKE already. The sad part about this new found relationship was that I had to leave in only 5 short days to retun back to school in MA, and he had to go back to VA. This was going to be the best week of our lives, and yet the saddest day was approaching.
We had hung out all week long, and he came to my house, and we went to the mall with my brothers, and on friday of that week was our "first date", we just went out as friends, and didnt really think of it as a date, but we went to see yes man with Jim carey, and then went to my favorite place ever MCdONALDS!!! It was so funny, after the movie we were both so hungry, but were too scared to mention McDonalds because we didnt wanna seem cheap to each other, but it ended up seeping out that it was both our favorite place to eat, I know so gross, but we love it. STILL! After mcDonalds, we went back to his house were we shared our first kiss. I had never had that kind of kiss in my life. It was a foot popping kiss. I swear I stopped breathing for a minute straight. I knew then I would marry this kid someday, he was special for sure.
So sunday came along, it was the day I would have to leave :( We went to church and it was so different than the first sunday we saw each other, our families were talking, all of our siblings were interacting, it was like we had known each other for years, and it had only been a week. So we said our sad goodbyes and didnt know where this would take us. We werent dating, we knew we liked each other, but how would things fall into place? would we date? how soon? would my dad like him? There was so many pressing questions in my head.I was on cloud 88 though :)

unfortunately I must go clean my house now, this week is crazy for my mom, We are having people over for christmas, and she has a LOOONG list. So I must go, but I will finish this story a bit later. . stay tuned!

til next time. . . Jaci