Puppy Love

Tonight is my first night home alone without my husband. As he is away in California with the team, I keep thinking about how much I love having him around- and miss him when he's gone. And then I realized, I have loved having him around for quite some time now.

7 years and 2 days ago, my family threw me a surprise 16th Birthday Party. Much to my excitement, the cutest, quietest, most athletic-est, puffy hair-est, brown boy at school was in attendance. I had a huge crush on that Robbie Mitchell.

Lucky for me, he had a thing for me too! And exactly 7 years ago today,  he asked me to be his girlfriend. (a great story in itself). It is so funny to look back and realize that we really hardly knew each other at the time... But there was just something about that boy that I was drawn to from the beginning. 

I don't think in my wildest sixteen year old dreams could I imagine that one day, 7 years later, I would be more than happily married in a tropical paradise to that same puffy haired boy that I smiled at in the hallway. I am still drawn to him in every way, and am so glad he mustered up the courage to "ask me out" on December 15, 2005.

Here's to that first "puppy love"- that sometimes becomes the most real, perfect, eternal love you did always dream of.

Missing you tonight!