10 Year Anniversary in Hawaii

Hello from Hawaii.  Actually I am not is Hawaii as I type this, but I should be in Hawaii when it posts.

Today is out 10 year anniversary.  It’s crazy that we have been married 10 years already, but even crazier when I think about how long I have known my wife.  She was 13, and I was 16 when we first met in 1991.  We met about a year after my Mom moved the family from a small northern Minnesota town, to a small town in central Minnesota.  She was the cute little neighbor girl that I wanted to go out with from day one.  She felt the same about me.

We were both to shy to ask each other out.  We became good friends and hung out a lot, but it took five years before we actually started dating.  After she graduated high school she took a month trip to Poland to be a teaching assistant with one of her teachers.  When she was there she missed me more than her boyfriend.  That’s when she knew.

It was probably a day or two after she got back when one of our mutual friends just said, “You know you two like each other, just go out.”

So that day she broke it off with her boyfriend, and I broke it off with the girlfriend I had then, and that was it.  My girlfriend and her boyfriend we actually kind of expecting it.  It was like everybody else knew we were meant to be before we did.  That was in 1996.

We then dated until we were both done with college, and finally got married in 2000.  So while she has been my wife for 10 years, she has been my best friend for 19.  That’s well over half my life.