The Beginning: Our love story didn't start with the fairy-tale love at first sight. This was never a Cinderella story. It was a Marian VS. Mahanoy football game - the year after we both graduated. People jokingly called me the "mayor" because I always seemed to know everybody...and yet, I didn't know my soulmate when he was standing before me. Matt greeted the two friends I was with and went on his way. I sat there gawking wondering, "Who the heck was that? and why don't I know him?" I may not have known then that he was my soulmate, but I learned pretty quickly that he was my next love interest. Facebook >> Oh, look he plays guitar and likes the same music as me. (Insert heart eyes here) >> You just sent a friend request>> OOPS! DrawSomething App << Matt Kufrovich requests to play a game. The Middle: Was he interested? or did he think we were just friends? Our first date should sum that up for you. He asked me to the movies. Exciting, right? He AND HIS FRIEND picked me up. We drove to the movies and he made me pay for my own ticket. Anyone who knows young Matt, knows this wouldn't be surprising at all. It gets better though. On the ride home, he had his friend drop him off at his house, which meant his friend, who I just met for the very first time, had to give me a very awkward ride home. (Hey, Mike! I'm talking about you!) Still interested, we decided to stick to hanging out instead of repeating whatever kind of date that was. I would ask him to use his employee discount at Guers, just so that he would hand deliver the crates to me and hang out for a bit. Somewhere along this timeline, there was night that I convinced him to come to Karaoke. He showed up at Mcniffs with 3 of his friends, sang a song for me and left. (I think he was embarrassed, but I was secretly love struck.) Our schedules never seemed to align and he wasn't ready for a serious relationship so it all just started to fizzle out. Many guers teas and years later, we reunited........as just friends. We knew we had feelings but that never worked for us in the past, so we skirted around it. The End (......of pretending) It took a few (terrible) significant others and years before we could see that we belonged together. On one hand, we had my best friend saying.. "I think you should just marry Matt." And on the other, we had Karen saying, "He's nice. You don't do nice. This won't work." My brain heard both of them but it was all muffled under the sound of Matt singing, the plucking of the chords on the guitar, all of his silly jokes, and possibly even his snoring. Fun Fact: Matt has scheduled 9 hours of sleep for himself for as long as I have known him. So does our story get the title of Love at First Sight? Nah. Maybe... " Love is Blind and We Were Stubborn?" Fireworks didn't go off immediately and give us our happily ever after right away. It was more like a series of sparklers that built up to the grand finale. But isn't that what we want? A slow and steady burn so nothing burns out too quickly. That's what got us here and we couldn't be happier! Our love story in Matt's eyes: We ate Francesco's, got pregnant, bought a house, had a baby, got engaged, had another baby, got a puppy......now we're here. The end.