I saw him for the first time when I was in the 6th grade. It's that puppy love kind of feeling where you steal their stuff and run and hide with it just to see if they'll chase you. I still remember stealing his hat and throwing it on top of the pavilion at the park and watching him climb up to get it and noticing he was missing a pinky! I didn't see him for two years after that and then one day he showed up at our school! Thinking back about this makes me smile, as I'm typing actually. Remembering all the emotions as we became best friends, then falling in love with him, then having my heart broken by one simple sentence of him saying he was back together with his girlfriend. Don't worry, I had him in my back pocket the whole time, I won him over! :) High School was ridiculous for us. I won't bore you with the entire story, lets just say we had some definite ups and downs. Break ups, melt downs, screaming matches, but somehow through it all, we survived. Senior year is when the Navy came in to play... 2008 was a pretty big year for us... He signed papers in January. We graduated high school May 23rd. He proposed May 28th. I started college. He left for boot camp August 25th. Boot camp graduation was October 24th. Courthouse wedding December 22nd. I dropped out of college. February 28th wedding shower. Happy 19th birthday to me on March 7th 2009 when we moved into our first apartment together, a thousand miles away from home. Here we go, ready or not, it's real life now!
The first apartment sucked. It was in the straight up ghetto but I tried my best to make it "home". After three months we couldn't take it any more and we found a bigger, nicer place on the other side of the water. Two years later, we're still here! :) He went on deployment last year and I stayed in the apartment by myself. It's definitely lonely living in your home alone.
In the last two years of living a thousand miles from our original home, we have made some life long friends and lost some friends who we thought would be there for us. All in all, I am proud of our life and I wouldn't change anything. Sometimes it takes moving away and starting your own life to see who will really stand by you.
We don't have any children, yet. I see a fertility specialist. I've been seeing a specialist for about a year now, with no luck. I have severe endometriosis and some other unexplained problems. We do have a fur baby though, my little miniature schnauzer, Cricky baby!
In April Chris and I celebrated our 7 year dating anniversary. We will celebrate our 3 year wedding anniversary in December. I feel so lucky everyday that I get to spend the rest of my life with him.
Every day, with every beat of my heart, I'll love you Christopher! No matter how many months I have to wait for you, I'll be here. I've watched you leave once before, but the homecoming makes every lonely night and every tear cried not even matter. I wait months for a single kiss from you, but that one kiss makes everything better. You are my world and my hero and I'll love you always and forever.
