Was it love at first site? or did it take a little longer…
Let’s travel back to the day we met our spouse.

Here’s Matt…

I met Matt on 4th of July, 1985. Matt had just graduated from Washington High School and turned 18. He was enrolled to attend St. Gregory’s University in the Fall.
**let me back up just a bit..**
July 3, 1985 I had gone out with friends to Frontier City (double date) and was sleeping in late when my mother asked and then told me I was going with her to the fourth of july picnic at the church camp we frequented. I didn’t want to go. I put on the pile of clothes laying on my floor. It was a pair of off white linen walking shorts (with cuffs), a bright green tank top and a deep v-necked sleeveless sweater that was off white with a green stripe across the middle. Stripes across the middle don’t count when you are 5′10″ and wear a size 2-4. (I grew to 6′1″ after high school…) anyway, back to that day…
Matt had apparently recently broken up with his girlfriend whom I lovingly still refer to as ‘that lori girl.’ Never just lori. It is always, ‘that lori girl.’
My cousin went to the same picnic because our mothers (who are sisters) were both helping in the kitchen. It was a camp fundraiser ya’ll…
He saw Matt in town (they went to the same H.S.) and brought him along.
I flirted with Matt all day. I didn’t even mind that I had blue snow cone down the front of my off white sleeveless sweater. So, we took a walk on the trails (those trails are just wrong)… and my cousin came looking for Matt so they could leave. I said the following. I admit it. It was not like me and I have not lived it down in our 18 years of marriage… “Let’s be kissing when he comes and he’ll leave us alone.” there I said it. I did. So we did. It was hot outside you guys.
I sat there on a log with Matt in the woods watching the drips of sweat fall from his perfect square jawline… he was (and is) so cute. I told him I liked his jawline and he told me I looked like his cousin Jill who was a model. That was a big compliment coming from him.
He asked me out. It was Thursday. I was already committed on Friday and Saturday nights. He asked me out for that night. Who makes dates on a thursday? We did.
The rest is history…

Me & Matt in our early dating years right after church on a Sunday…

Me on the very bed I accrued humongous phone bills talking to him!

Matt in my room, visiting from college…