On July 27, 2002, I married my best friend of five years. We met in high school and declared ourselves instantaneous soul-mates. We remained best friends (nothing romantic) for the next three years, throughout his mission, while I finished high school and went to college. Then when we were both home for the summer in 2000, we had a fight, drove out to a cow pasture and decided to start dating. That story always makes me smile.
Now we've been married for seven years. Alan is still my best friend. Our relationship is the best thing in my life. It's fairy tale, really. I think that we are that couple that people look at and then gag. Yes, I know I'm bragging. We still hold hands when we are grocery shopping, we still turn on music and dance together after the kids go to sleep. We have so much fun together, doing nothing, that we have to make ourselves go to sleep at night. Otherwise we'd just be up all night laughing and goofing around. Alan is my reason for believing that true love does exist.
My captions won't go where I want them to, so I'll just have to explain the pictures up here. The first is a picture from our wedding day (obviously). For our anniversary we went on a super date. That's what my friend Rachel calls a date where you do more than one thing and somebody else puts your kids to bed. We went to Quivey's Grove for dinner. It was so yummy! I had fried chicken with honey mustard sauce, and creamy mashed potatoes. Alan had a pork chop with the same mashed potatoes. Mmmm! Then we went to The Hubbard Ave. Diner for dessert. We split a slice of cherry pie and an apple crisp sundae. Way too much food, but so good! After dessert we walked around Middleton on the train tracks for a while. The two pictures of me on a bench are there. The first one (where you can't really see me, but only the sun behind me), Alan said, "I tried to take your picture, but then Jesus came down behind you." His sense of humor is unique, if nothing else. :) Then we drove out to a corn field and watched a huge storm roll in. The sunset was incredible.
I loved reading this. It is so romantic. I feel cheesy typing this, but true love is amazing.
ReplyDeleteMichael and I were holding hands, taking a walk when we were first dating and I remember thinking, "We're 'those' people. The happy, lucky ones." Even though Michael and I have only been together a short time, I feel that way constantly.
Anyway, I was just loving your story (and thinking of my own too--sorry!) :)
If that first part about your relationship was coming from pretty much anyone else, I would think they were full of you-know-what...but I'm pretty sure I have seen you and Alan first hand and know that it's really true. Congrats on seven years of the best kind of friendship! (c:
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