Jason and I met in the 8th grade, in-class we would sit next to one another along with friends and just laugh and laugh for no reason at all, got in trouble quite a bit. Until one day our friend Ryan finds me at the lunch table and says “ I dare you to ask Jason out”, I said no until he called me chicken b/c ya can’t back down from that so I walked up to him and asked and to my surprise he said yes! We held hands, talked on the phone, passed notes, all the cute kid stuff. Then the end of our 8th grade year we had a formal dance, woo hoo our first date We shared our first dance to Aerosmith I don’t want to miss a thing, and then went to the movies after. Have no idea what movie we saw but that is where I received my first kiss ever..... WOW!!!! Now he was in trouble bc I was head over heels, used to tease him we were gonna get married and that he was IT for me. Then high school came and we grew apart, hardest break up ever!!!! Don’t think I cried so much. Time passed relationships came and went. Then Facebook happened and we reconnected. I had moved back home and he had gotten a divorce, our daughters were around the same age and I wanted friends with kids the same age so Lilly would have friends. So I caught him on Facebook and asked him if he wanted to catch up with some coffee.... again surprised me he said yes! So we sat in the coffee shop for HOURS!!!! Just lost in conversation, kids life and what we want out of it. Then New Years came around, we were at friends houses separately, but still texting back and forth. Just before the ball dropped, me in my buzzed state was bold and sent a text that changed our lives forever..... Me: “hey Jay, since you were my first kiss ever I think you should be my first kiss of the NEW YEAR” Jason:” where are you, I’ll be right there” Me: 😱 He showed up and the moment that kiss happened it was ALL OVER!!!! Since that New Year of 2012 we have been inseparable.