Love, Laughter, & Happily Ever After

August 2008. Dillon and I were both freshman high school students studying anatomy. We were in class together 2-3 times a week and became good friends. I was the band nerd and he was a wrestler, didn't seem like we had much in common but we just clicked. We stayed friends throughout high school but didnt have any classes together sophomore year so we only saw each other in passing. Junior year rolled around and we had American Sign Language together and reconnected, we stayed in this for our Senior year as well and just grew closer. Dillon asked me to prom with a tye dye tshirt and some beautiful flowers and we did go together and had a great night. We stayed close until graduation, where we went separate ways for college. I headed to Terre Haute while he went to Franklin.

January 28th, 2017. I was going through a lot. I received a text saying "Hope you are okay, let me know if you need anything", I responded "whos this", then I received a text saying "Dillon Webb", and we never stopped. We immediately reconnected like it hadn't been 5 years. We went on our first date on 2/22/17 to see Star Wars (we both hate star wars), it was literally just an excuse to spend time together and see what kind, if any, connection we had. That night we held hands, laughed, reminisced on high school, and as the gentleman he is kissed me on my front porch when he walked me to my door. I knew then, this was it. We continued to date, movies, dinners, weddings, anything to spend time together. The man would come over after shift, drive 20 minutes out of his way, just to kiss me goodnight- then head to his house. He was slowly knocking down every wall of mine, as I was his.

It was April 20th, 2017. I was in KY with friends on a weekend getaway, Dillon was at his house for the weekend and Brantlee was with my mom. The night of the 20th I receive a picture of Dillon and Brantlee, immediately confused. I called to figure out how this was and Dillon told me he missed his little buddy and needed to come see him. My heart melted, I cried.. the man I loved, loved my son- there was no better feeling. Around 1 am on the 21st, I called Dillon, I told him to ask me... that I was ready. He said "no you told me it had to be in person", I said I cannot wait until I get home, I'm ready to be yours. We became a couple in that instant and never looked back.

The story of Dindin is a necessary one to tell. When Dillon started coming around it took me a minute to let Brantlee around him. I had just pulled him from all he knew, we had moved to a different place, his mom was a wreck and I'm sure he was confused. I slowly let them around each other, first as mommys friend. One night he looked at Dillon and said "Dindin", I thought the kid wanted dinner, but he ran into Dillons arms. Both of their faces lit up, I knew what I was seeing wasn't anything ordinary. June rolled around and one night (I have it on video) Brantlee looked at me and said "Dindin my daddy", Dillon and I shook our heads and never told him different. 17 months later, it was official, Dindin was his forever daddy.