A Modern Day Love Story!! 2+2+4 and Counting

For the friends that know us hear is a little insight about the beginning. Enjoy.

This story starts about 8 years ago. This starts in a little place called North Ridgeville Ohio. I saw this beautiful girl in the hallway. And I though to my self that I would love to get to know that girl. It was kind of nice that I had friend that had a locker next to hers and also a class with her. This girl was a transfer to this school from a different place. I have never seen this girl before our junior year in high school. I saw her and I immediately had to talk to her.I thought that she was amazingly HOTT!!. The problem with me talking to her was that I am really really shy when I get out of my comfort zone (surprising to those that know me well). The good thing was that I had a friend that was in the same class as hers and I had a study hall right next door to where she was taking class. The ironic thing was that I went to my coaches room which is right next to the math class she was taking a makeup test at. I had a crazy feeling that it just felt right and that I was going to spend the rest of my life with this girl. We hit it off and had tons of stuff in common. It is really crazy to think that 7.5 years into our relationship And 4 years into our wonderful marriage I think that I love that girl more know than I did back than. My feelings have never changed for her. We have gotten more mature and thus our feelings and love for one another has gotten more loving and deeper as well. Fast forward to December 2004, we have been together almost 2 years and I figured it was time to make our future "official" so I pick out a ring, took her father to lunch, planned a perfect date in Downtown Cleveland and ask this beautiful girl to marry me, in front of a crowd in Downtown Cleveland in the winter in front of the Christmas tree in public square after that we take a perfect carriage ride around downtown Cleveland to put a perfect ending to an already perfect night. October 14, 2006 is a date that I will remember forever. This is the day that my life really became complete. I married my best friend, my LATA, my wife. It was a perfect fall day with love and friends all around. That day will be a day that will forever be engrained in my mind. Did I mention that she made a really hott bride!! Let's fast forward again 4 more years. On this week of our 4th wedding anniversary, I am constantly reminded of how beautiful my wife is inside and out. She always makes me fell like the most important person. Its amazing how fast 4 years of marriage flies by let alone 8 years. Amanda makes it so easy to love her. It has been on heck of a journey that we have both been on together. I want to thank my LATA for making this journey so much fun. I look forward to many more anniversaries.

Two years of Marriage Bliss

If you were to ask me in the summer of 2002 if i would be married and had a house in Raleigh in 2008 i would have told you you were crazy. but the fact of the matter is that this really happened. i Married my high school sweetheart in the fall of 2006 on the 14Th day of October. i still remember it like it was yesterday i woke up went to the gym with Bob Bauer who was in the wedding. the Crazy thing about this day is that i wasn't nervous until people started coming in to sit down at the church. not a cold feet kind of thing i just don't like being in front of 100+ people who will be staring at me for about an hour. since that day my life has been flipped upside down. i will be forever connected to the love of my life Amanda Jane and to all the wonderful people i have met along our journey together.these are the greatest of times and i know that there are gonna be tough times as well but i know that i have love and a bond for my wife that I cannot explain.and anything that we come face to face with in our journey will be a blessing and a lesson. My Wife has been so motivational to me and so inspirational in so many ways. This is just one chapter of my life that will never end. this one chapter will keep going and going and going. Amanda Jane will always and forever be my beautiful bride. someone very close told that every time i look at you i fall in love all over again. and Amanda that is how i feel each and every day.

My Wife

What can I say about my beautiful bride? she is the butter on my bread, and the sweet in my tea. if it was not for her i don't know where I would be in my life right know. she has done so much for me in the past 5+ years that i don't even know where to begin to thank her or repay. she really saved my life emotionally and spiritually (though shell deny that she did) she has made me realize that life is not full of glamor and sunshine but a real life relationship takes dedication and hard work at that. So dont worry im dedicated to you and our relationship. maybe this it the best way to tell her that she is my foundation and to the credit of Andy Griggs she thinks she needs me but the truth is i need her more than she will ever need me. Amanda keeps me grounded and in touch with reality. I have become a better person emotionally and spiritually because we moved to Raleigh together. if we were not together i do not know where I would be at this point in my life. so baby when you read this I just want to say that I love and I owe you ten thousand times over. Have a wonderful day.