a trip down memory lane

Hi Blog Family!

As we approach our 2nd anniversary on August 12, I thought I might share a bit of what has been going on in our lives over the past two years. Let me start out with a brief history of our lives since we have known each other.

Scott and I met in the fall of 2001. He has just started school at John Brown University and I had just transferred to the University of Arkansas. We met through mutual friends and remained friends for a year until he finally asked me out on our first date in November 2002.

In the spring of 2004 I was working at the Wal-Mart Headquarters. Scott had been tossing around the idea of transferring for a while. One day we were sitting at the kitchen table in Fayetteville where I lived with Katie and Jessica and he kind of snickered and said he had emailed the coach at Texas Wesleyan about transferring. At that moment, I knew he would be moving back to Fort Worth and going to finish school in his home town. Things got a bit rocky with a long distance relationship after he moved and we broke up off and on for a while. I started massage school in the fall of 2004. When I was finished with massage school in the spring of2005, I decided to move to Frisco, TX just north of Dallas. We weren't together at the time that I moved, but once I got a bit closer we rekindled our relationship and knew we had to stay together. It was so much easier to be closer and be able to spend more time together. He finished out his college and basketball career at Texas Wesleyan and got his degree in Kinesiology after a long five years in school.

We got engaged in December 2005! In July before we got married, I moved to Fort Worth into the apartment we would live in. He had been living with his dad while in school. We got married in August 2006 and lived in that apartment until December when we moved into our house we are renting. We moved to Arkansas on our 1st anniversary and back to Texas in January 2008, where we moved back into the same house we had moved out of.

Scott works as the assistant manager of the Vitamin Shoppe in Fort Worth. I work as a retail specialist at Veria Wellness Center and I do massage on the side at home and in Aledo at Grace Day Spa. I kind of miss doing massage full time, but I am enjoying a steady paycheck and the benefits are a nice addition.

Recently, we have has some interesting options placed in our lives. Scott has been offered the assistant coaching position at Texas Wesleyan. It would be his ticket into coaching. He has been wanting to coach of a long time now and this may be his chance. If it pans out for him and he likes coaching, he will have to get a master's degree in order to be a head coach at the collegiate level. They will most likely require him to teach a class if he coaches at a college. So if you think of it, please be saying a prayer for us as we decide what to do.

We are looking seriously into buying a house too. We have been casually looking for a while now, but tomorrow we are going to the bank to get pre-qualified for a loan. This should be interesting. It is a little nerve racking buying a first home. Luckily I have my father, the real estate agent, to call every day and bounce ideas off of.

And, I will be posting pictures of our early anniversary getaway soon. We are staying at a bed and breakfast tomorrow night. We are very anxious for a fun little outing. We rarely have a day off together and we have two days off together this week!

We are still very much in love! Thanks for sharing in our lives. Enjoy so fun facts about our marriage and the past two years!!


Fun Facts:
Places we have lived:
- Fort Worth, TX
- Springdale, AR

Places we have traveled:
- Cancun, Mexico
- Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
- Chicago, IL

Our dreams for the future:
- to buy a house
- to have kids someday
- to buy a hybrid car, preferably a Prius

Strange events:
- screaming (and I do mean screaming) neighbors waking us up in the middle of the night
- a neighbor's (same one) house alarm going off all night because she wasn't there to turn it off. Just so happened it was the night before we left for Mexico the next morning at 5:00am! Needless to say, no sleep that night.
- Our cars getting broken into and both our stereos getting stolen the same night.

Number of times we have moved since being married: 4
Favorite restaurant: Edohana Hibachi and Sushi
Favorite date night: Pizza and a movie...a rare occasion since Scott can't have wheat.
He does: the lawn, the trash, the cars
I do: cleaning, cooking, bills (he does help though)