I had moved back home from being a semester away at college. I was very involved in YL in high school and when I moved back home I had decided to become a YL leader. Through that I met one of my best friends Emily {SIDE STORY- I had only known her for maybe a couple weeks and she asked me one night at a bonfire if I would move in with her, I said yes and we have been best friends ever since.} Emily was super crushin' on another leader (who is now her husband) Chris. Keenan and Chris lived together in the city they led YL in.
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We would go over there and hang out all the time. A few months passed and one night Emily and I were being ridiculous giddy little girls and this is basically how it played out...
E: Chris told me someone in leadership has a crush on you
ME: (acting like I had no clue even though I did) WHAT!? WHO!?
{side not: she actually said she knew this for a while but couldn't say anything because I was in a "covenant" where I wouldn't date/like/whatever with any guy for 6 months, which I totally wasn't true to & the Good, Forgiving, Humorous God and I worked that out}
E: KEENAN!
{gasps}
This may not seem like a big deal haha but it was. Keenan wasn't close to ANY of the girls (except for his friend/co-leader Jordan)
Keenan did end up telling me himself that he liked me.
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Our first date consisted of his car not starting. Me driving (I was ok with that). Dinner at Max & Erma's. Dessert at a local coffee shop with live music. and him me taking me back home :).
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We dated for a summer and then I broke up with him (because I was stupid).
We didn't speak much but a few months later I just found myself wanting to know him more and talk and hangout. I wrote him a letter and my friend drove me to give it to him. I chickened out of course so I just left the note on the front door-got in the car- started driving away- and my friend Sam honks the horn. great. haha.
Well, he liked the note. He told me he was in love with me during a wind storm at night, at a park, with a candle lit dinner of frosted cheerios. it was so sweet! I told him I wasn't ready to "say it back".
{WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME!?}
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Well, we dated for a total of about a year (I did tell him I loved him). We talked about getting married. We took pre-engagement counseling & he proposed to me via scavenger hunt (how sweet is my husband!) Of course I said YES!
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We got married April of 2010 and I am still just as much in love with him & appreciate him more now, than the day we said "I do".
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We got married April of 2010 and I am still just as much in love with him & appreciate him more now, than the day we said "I do".
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| April 2010 . Married |
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