Our Story!

Today is our 7th anniversary so I will share the story of how we got together. The Stubby's moved in down the street from me when I was 11 years old and soon after that I started meeting their family. I am sure that I met Johnny before but the first time I noticed him was when we were about 14 and I secretly had a crush on him. I think that he had just gotten baptised and I was not even going to church at that time. Well time went on and when I was about 16 I started going to church pretty regular with Sondra and her family and soon the three of us me, Johnny and Sondra started hanging around each other. I was crazy about him but I would never tell him because that just wasn't my way, I would let him make the first move. Well I was baptized when I was 17 and we were all still really close. My home life wasn't the greatest and we did kind of drift apart for a while. I graduated high school a year before him and we kind of went a summer and didn't really talk much. Well Sondra moved out of state for a while and I was really upset about her going and I thought that I would be really lonely but before she left she told Johnny that I needed his friendship really bad and when she left we started doing things together. We would go to my Grandma's house or to the Stubby's on the weekends and just visit and it seemed like we were always together. But friends is all that we were. I was beginning to give up on the idea that we would ever be anymore than that and one night I was driving home from my Grandma's house and before I got in the car I prayed that if it was meant for me to hold on and wait for him to reveal his feelings to me that a certain song would come on the radio. Well I got in the car and started driving and second guessing having prayed this way because I thought I was being silly. I turned that radio on and that song was on the radio so I knew that the Lord was working things out and one day we would be together. Sondra moved back home and we were all still really close but I noticed that Johnny was calling me now directly and Sondra was no longer the middle man between us. Probably a few months later we were at the Stubby's house sitting on the couch and Johnny took my hand and with is finger traced the words I Love You, Marry Me in my hand. Well I just about had a heart attach because remember we were just friend and never had even dated. Well it was late in the evening when this happened so I (still being in shock) got up and went home. I called my mom and told her that I thought that Johnny had asked me to marry him. She laughed and said what do you mean you Think! Well I relayed the story to her and told her I was going to find out what was going on tomorrow. So the next day I told him I needed to hear these words come out of his mouth and of course we talked about our feelings and we were married 4 months later. We were 20years old. He was waiting on the Lord to tell him when the time was right and I am so glad that he did because so far we have had a beautiful marriage and I hope to have many more years together.