Happy Anniversary!!!

Today Troy and I have been married ONE YEAR!! Where has the time gone?

I thought I would tell you as brief as I can how Troy and I met and married.

In Jan 2001, I saw Troy as he managed a restaurant that my Dad and Step-Mom were eating at (Charcoal Chicken). Wow, he was so cute and had such confidence. I got his name and the next day I called him at Charcoal Chicken to discuss them possibly catering a lunch for me. He explained that they were just beginning this service and did not have the capabilities to deliver but would be more than happy to help. I was working at CCA at the time and this great co-worker of mine, Fred, went to pick the order up. Now I told Fred before he left he could ONLY deal with Troy. That Troy was soooo cute and for Fred to find out if Troy was single or not; not that I would know what to do with that info once I had it. Well, Fred went to pick the order up and told Troy that I was "smitten" (his words not mine) with Troy and that Troy should call me to follow up on the order and ask me out. Troy followed up, we spoke for two hours and then agreed to go to dinner. Troy will tell you he didn't remember who I was, so many people (women) talk to him everyday at work. But he certainly remembered me when we met for dinner. After having a wonderful dinner at Los Alameda's Restaurant and being asked to leave, Troy and I began dating steadily.

May 2002

Christmas 2002
We began to dress alike

3 year anniversary at Taste of Texas
Still dressing alike

Jan 2003
Taste of Texas
Troy told me I would be his wife someday at this dinner

June of 2003, I thought Troy and I should stop seeing each other. So I called him and asked him to pick me up for dinner, instead I had some of his things and broke up with him. ***Insert not so nice words to describe me here***  That was the hardest, most selfish and mean thing I think I had ever done. Looking back it was best that we go our separate ways, we weren't ready to marry each other or anyone else for that matter.

July 25, 2008 I received an email from Troy via Facebook. He wanted to know how I had been, and catch me up on how he was. I couldn't figure out why he would WANT to look me up. But we shared emails for about two months. During that third month he asked me out to lunch "just to catch up in person"--- ummm no. After another month of communicating and Troy inviting me out, we met for drinks.

October 3, 2008 we met at Los Cucos Mexican Cafe for one drink. After five hours and two drinks, lots of laughs and stories. I knew I was still in love with him and wanted to be his wife. Troy didn't make it that easy on me though.

We dated until June 12, 2009 and Troy surprised me with the "Big Question" in front of my GHBA co-workers. I said "YES".



He asked on June 12, 2009
YES!!!

Between June 2009 and December 2009, Troy accepted a position with Beck's Prime, we moved in together, Troy contracted MERSA on his foot and was hospitalized for almost two weeks,we bought two new cars, and one new car was wrecked as it sat parked in front of the house.

2010 started with complete focus on the wedding. We would walk down the isle on April 3, 2010 at 2:00pm at Weston Lakes Country Club. We had a small wedding (it was a bit bigger than planned), that we would not change for anything.



We did it and we were making a run for it :-)

Our wedding cake-
Thank you Linda Mowry for making it special!

Troy- There is that sappy line from Jerry McGuire--- "You complete me". You do complete me, you make me whole, you ground me, you challenge me, you support my crazy, you love every one of my faults (there are sooo many!), you know when to crowd me and when to back off, you are my everything. I love you more than life itself. I look back now at those six years that we were apart and I was sooooo lost. Thank you for finding me and making me complete! I can not wait to experience life and one day be able to say we have been married 69 years just like your grandparents! I love you baby!!!

April 2, 2011

It is 3:30pm CST and I am thinking of where we were one year ago today.


You were about to meet me at Weston Lakes Country Club so we could do a run through of our wedding day. You were still a bit hung over (ok A LOT hung over) from your guys night out on April 1st! Who thought that was a funny joke?

Troy laying on the floor of our living room...
This is as far as I could get him into the house.
What a Bachelor Night!

OK so I posted your picture here and thought about not posting my photo after my night out, but didn't think that was fair in Love and War. But I was sure glad I didn't have evidence of you and Sadia having to take care of me when I got home. I still laugh out loud every day I see the pink feather boa stain in our front bathroom.

Because it is my blog, I got to choose a pretty (before the wildness began) photo

Anyway, we made it through our rehearsal (no thanks to the coordinator!)

We made it through rehearsal dinner and the wedding cake pinata, the "flower" in my hair and THE CHICKEN DANCE.

Glad they didn't get us on camera!
Thank you Betty and Travis for taking one for the wedding party!

Ok now on a serious note... How the heck are we going to make the next year better than this first year?? This song says it all and you picked it...

More tomorrow on our love story and just how much I love you!

(readers... I'm not usually sappy, but Troy just gets me seeing hearts all the time, had to share....)