{Happy ♥VALENTINES♥ Day}

♥A Virtual Valentine for all my Super Sweet Bloggy Friends!♥

XOXOX~Monica

In honor of the day of love I thought I'd share some facts about my sweetheart and I.... Enjoy! (this was a tag I got from Ann, you should all do it, it was fun!)

♥ Where did you meet you hubby? He moved here at the start of our Senior Year, of course in a school as small as ours, you notice the new guy. I though he was pretty cute, but the more I saw him around, the more he annoyed me. Sorry, but it's true!
♥ Who asked who out first? Derrick asked me out, but our friends were pretty tricky in setting it up. One of my friends was with Derrick's best friend on our Senior trip to California. James got sick of hanging out with the girls all the time, so he decided to hook us up. He told Derrick that I liked him, and the came and told me that Derrick really liked me. We were kind of forced together and then just kept going out. Pretty soon it was just a given that we'd be together.
♥ What do you remember most about him? That he was always up for anything, and still is! We had a lot of fun while we were dating, actually we still have fun!
♥ What did you do on your first date? We went bunny hunting....Awww, romantic, I know! We actually ended up just driving around and hanging out with James & Heather. I was super embarrassed when we were together the next night and one of his friends noticed the new box of bullets Derrick had bought and not one was missing. Needless to say, we got a lot of crap for that.

♥ What was your favorite thing to do while dating? We did lots of different things..... four-wheeling, jet skiing, just hanging out. When you live in a small town, you learn to be creative.
♥ When was your first kiss by your sweetheart? Umm, can I just skip this one? Ok, it may or may not have been on the above mentioned bunny hunting trip?!?
♥Who said I love you first? Derrick did. We hadn't been dating long (like 2 or 3 weeks) and he went to Yellowstone on a guys trip. When he got back, he was telling me how much he had missed me and that he realized he was falling in love with me. I was NOT ready for that one and just sat there with a stupid look on my face, I honestly didn't know what to say!
♥When did you first realize that you loved him? All through the summer dreaded leaving for school and wondered if this was it, but when I finally left at the end of the summer and was miserable after 2 days without him, I knew it was real.
♥ How did he propose? It was on my 19th birthday in June. I had hoped for a ring for Christmas, and then Valentines....we kept talking about being married by the end of the summer, but there was no ring. The night before my birthday I told my sister that if I didn't get a ring for my birthday, I was going to be super mad. Thankfully he picked my up from work and took me to our favorite secluded park, and sure enough my present was a ring, but he didn't ask me to marry him??? We talked for a bit and finally I said "Are you even going to ask me if I'll marry you?" OOPS!
♥What do you remember about your wedding day? Mostly that I was SO happy, but scared at the same time. I was pretty young and though I was ready to be married, I wasn't sure about being a grown-up!
♥How long have you been together? Since we started dating, it will be 15 years in May. We will have been married 14 years in September and I can't imagine my life with anyone else!

♥Monica & Derrick♥

Sept. 9th, 1995