June 2....

Today is a date I will NEVER forget. The Man asked me to be his girlfriend 11 years ago today. Soo crazy how life has worked out. I also wrote about it last year, pretty lengthy, here. I really think I knew at age 14 that i would marry The Sweet Man. I know most 14 year old teenage girls think they will marry their boyfriend at the time, but it seemed to have worked out for me. I am so thankful for him and love him more and more each day. Life with The Man is always fun, he always makes me laugh. He makes me feel so safe. For some reason I don't worry about things when I am with him because in the end i know he will take care of me.
I am a little worried about going to day shift and sleeping in the same bed with him everynight... b/c he snores...i might end up in another bedroom every time. :) But I feel like have missed out on "us" by working night shift so I am very excited about that.

How he got the name "The Sweet Man" or "The Man." He doesn't like to be talked about on my blog. When i started my blog a year ago, most blogs i read didn't put names on them, so that is why i started calling him The Sweet Man..b/c my blog name is How Sweet It Is! This was funny to some of my close friends b/c they don't see him as a "Sweet Man" he always acts tough and hard core...but not with me...he is Sweet... but since i got made fun of I started calling him "The Man." What a wonderful Man he is. I of course have to work tonight (only 2 more nights on NIGHT SHIFT) but hopefully we will celebrate our dating anniversary this weekend!

An Entire DECADE......

The sweet hubbie and I have been together a entire decade today. Crazy to think, huh? No. Not married but started dating. It was 10 years ago today. I had just finished my freshman year of high school and he finished his junior year. We had gone to the same school and hung out a couples of times. Our baseball team went to playoffs or something out of town. He asked me if i wanted to go with him & some of his friends. I of course said yes. Now that i look back on it...I can't believe my parents let me go out of town with a boy they didn't even really know. I remember the Shumakes did drive us so maybe that is why they let me go. I was 14 and he was 18. (The sweet hubs hates when i say our age difference b/c he says it sounds so bad. Really I was 14 but turned 15 the next month.) We were in the car on the way back from the game, can't remember if we won or lost, but he asked if i would be his girlfriend. :) How sweet!

We have each grown as people and as a couple together. Crazy to think i have almost been with him half of my life. I know a little more since I am 24. But so crazy. I can't imagine my life without him. He is for sure my other half, my best friend, my sweet hubbie. He has taught me so much and takes such good care of me. Cooks me dinner every night. We still go on our weekly Sunday night dates to the movies. Man I just love that SWEET MAN! I don't have pictures of us when we started dating but here are a few from the last 10 years.