One thing we hate to talk about is how we met. It wasn’t in a bar or in a club or anything like that. In fact, it’s almost worse. We met when we were both 17, heading into our senior year of high school. He was with his buddies at The Buck (yep, I said it. That’s where we met). I was with my girls (again, at The Buck). I knew one of his friends so we went over to sit with him. I thought he was cute and a total country boy which suited me well as a little country girl. We didn’t talk much but we soon met again at the pond across the street from my house. I rode up on my first horse (he should’ve steered clear from a crazy horse lady, but he couldn’t help himself). I tried my hardest to get him to flirt with me but he just did not understand. This happened quite often, we would go fishing, I’d flirt with him until he finally got the hint. We started dating and it was nothing but rainbows and unicorns from there.

Like most Saturday’s in the summer leading up to my senior year of high school, me and a few of my buddies went to “The Buck” Motorsport park to enjoy the festivities and most importantly people watch, which was always entertaining. One of my friends I was with went to my neighboring high school of Avon Grove when he recognized a fellow classmate of his. This classmate was a little blonde smoke show named Jill, he introduced us and her and her friend sat with us for a little while before moving on. A few short weeks later me and the same friend were looking for places to fish, when he remembered that Jill had a pond near her house that we could go try fishing so we went. We started going there pretty regularly to fish, at first because there was an abundance of large mouth bass there, but I started making it a point to go as often as I could because most of the time Jill would come down and hang out with us while we fished. After awhile I finally got her phone number and we started hanging out outside of just at the fishing pond. As things progressed into our senior year of high school I worked up the courage to ask her to my homecoming dance, then eventually asked her to be my girlfriend. Shortly after that one night I blurted out “I love you” and was so relieved when she said it back. Now over 7 years later I’ve never stopped loving her from that day, through all of our ups and downs. I couldn’t imagine spending the rest of my life without her in it.