My boy

A little about my boy :)

While I was in community college, I met this very cute guy :). He and his friend, Lauren, sat behind me in history class and would crack jokes the whole class and genuinely seemed like really fun people. So one day I joined in their joke making and hit it off with them. I became friends with them pretty quickly and would always hang out with the guy after class until I had to go to my next class. This went on for a few weeks until we had a test coming up. We all decided to get together and study at Lauren's house. Her house was further than his house and harder to find so we decided that I would drive to his house and then he and I would drive from there. We had lots of car time and lots of time to talk in between study time. I found out that he was Catholic* and didn't want kids; 2 deal breakers in my book. I also found out that he liked me when he asked me out.

Unfortunately for him, I was not interested. As we got to know each other I realized that he a really sweet guy, but I was just not interested. I had also just gotten out of a relationship and could not see myself right back in another one, that to me, was just not going to go anywhere. I had been hurt alot and could not imagine that a guy could just be nice and not be after one thing.

We went to breakfast after class with his friends almost every week. We always went to Chick-fil-a and I always got hashbrowns (hence my blog name) :). This went on the entire semester. We studied together before every test, talked on the phone, went to breakfast, and he kept on asking me out. I kept saying no, because honestly I didn't want to get hurt again and I felt that he was getting to be a little clingy so I told him that once school was over I didn't think that we should talk anymore.

We didn't talk for about a month, but then, slowly, I began to miss him. We started talking again and I found out about other dates that he had been on and I found myself more than a little jealous. After a few months of me wanting to claw some other girls' eyes out a decided to ask him out :). And boy was I relieved when he said yes!

Our first date was March 18, 2007. I took him to church with me and then we went out to dinner at P.F. Changs and then we stayed in the parking lot for hours after and just talked about everything. He became a Christian a few weeks later, much to my surprise :). I thought for sure it would be a long process, what with all the questions he had from his Catholic upbringing but God was working faster than I thought possible...big surprise :). He also changed his mind about kids not long after that. I think him seeing his brother with his niece helped a lot and God probably helped a little too :). But now we have an agreement on 2 kids with an option on the 3rd :).

To put it simply, I love him more than I can say and count myself so lucky to have him in my life. God has used him to show me so many things about His nature that I count myself blessed in everyway. And I'm going to spend the rest of my life with that boy :).



*Note I have nothing against Catholics, my grandmother was raised Catholic, but I just couldn't see myself raising my children Catholic.