all because two people fell in love

So, it is naptime in the hizouse and both children are actually sleeping at the same time (yay for mama) so I can update!

I think my journey really started when I moved my sophomore year of high school. At the time it was the worst.thing.ever, but now its not so bad. I met my H in November 1998, three months after I moved. I was actually hanging out with his best friend, and said best friend came to my house to wake me up because it was a snowday. He bought H with him, and they did indeed wake me up. I had not even brushed my teeth yet when I first saw H. My first thought was that he was the funniest looking person I had ever seen (he had gotten back from Marine boot camp the day before and he was so skinny and bald). I'm sure his first impression wasn't much better, considering.

We became friends and I often set him up with friends of mine because I really liked hanging out with him. One night, around Halloween 2000, we were on a double date (my boyfriend and me with H and a girlfriend of mine) and we went to a haunted house. Now, let me add here that I LOVE scary anything (movies, houses, stories, whatever) until I actually start seeing the scary stuff. I was freaking out and my boyfriend ran ahead of me. H stayed with me through the haunted house and that is the night I realized I loved him. Shortly after that boyfriend and I broke up, but still hung out as friends since we had the same group of friends (H was always in this group too). Soon after, H and I started hanging out just the two of us more and more and he called me on New Years Eve 2001 and we talked and talked. A few weeks later, we were hanging out at his place and he kissed me. It was the sweet, corny, awkward kiss but it was perfect. And so began our relationship.


We got engaged a year later and married two years after that. About 2 1/2 years into our marriage we decided we were ready for babies. We went on "our last baby-free vacation" in July 2006 and also started Dave Ramsey's get out of debt plan. I stopped birth control in July and we figured it would take awhile to get pregnant, but in September, I told him I felt pregnant. I took a test 2 weeks after my missed period and it was negative. I sat on the couch and cried over losing something I never had, but I told him I still felt pregnant. Two weeks later I took another test and saw a faint horizontal line and a dark dark dark pink vertical line. It took us about 3 hours to realize that it didn't matter how light or dark the horizontal line was, it was the vertical line that only showed up if you were pregnant! (and really it doesn't matter with either line, but didn't want to get excited over nothing).

I hear children waking up, so more on our first love later...