Mike and I grew up together. We were next door neighbors out in the country and, along with our siblings, were pretty much the only kids. Let's just say, Mike was surrounded by girls. Lucky for him, my sister and I were tomboys. We were each other's first dates, we went to prom together and were best friends. But life goes on and we were afraid to take our friendship to the next level and lose the relationship we had. It took us this long for my sister to convince Mike to take me on a real date. Mike warned me at the time that he wasn't holding his feelings back. Wouldn't you know, on our first date after all these years, I ran into a glass wall. Mike, being the wonderful man he is, caught me as I ricocheted off the wall. The fact that he asked me to marry him after that just proves how wonderful he is. He said I was his first love and his last. How ironic I was thinking the same thing. We have a lot of years to make up for and we hope you can come and celebrate with us!