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What’s Your Story? How I Got Engaged.

I was tagged this week from my friend Rebecca. This is a fairly new meme asking “What’s Your Story”– How you got engaged.

I met my dear husband one summer while he was working with a summer missions program as the youth minister at my church. He recalls being told by his mother before he left for the summer, that he was going to find his wife. Apparently, she was correct.

He was the youth guy and I was the “not involved youth member with attitude”.
Hubby says he knew he was going to marry me, but at the time, I hated him! Who was he to come and tell us how to live our lives? He gets to go home after the summer and live however he wants!

However, as the summer progressed, I softened. I noticed that he saw past where I was at the time to the potential in me and I am ever so thankful. We had a lot of heart to heart talks, but never officially dated.

The summer ended, he went home and our long months of letter writing began. In a way it was more of a courtship (only without parental involvement). He did end up moving closer when his parents returned to the states, making him only 3 hours away. There were many week-ends when he would drive out just to go to a movie or a walk in the park and then head home.

At dinner before my senior prom(photo) he asked me to marry him. Apparently, I sat there dumbfounded and didn’t respond. I am not very good at those great dramatic and romantic responses, sorry honey! We had a terrific evening at prom and then went back to being apart, divided by the miles. Less than 6 months later we eloped.

Here we are today, 17 years and 8 children later; he is still the love of my life.

So…What is your story?

Here are the three bloggers I’d like to nominate:

1. Kim at Life in a Shoe
2. Valerie at Just4homeschoolfamilies
3. Michele at Life Under the Sun

If you want to share your story and I didn’t tag you, please put your stories in the comments here. I would love to read them! In fact, if I get enough people who leave their stories in the comments section, I will write another post linking to all of your sites.

For those who were tagged, here is how it works:
* Copy the link to this image (hot – linking is fine by me!)
* Write your story of how you got engaged.
* Select 3 bloggers that are married or have gotten engaged and let them know that you want to know their story.
* Make sure you link back to this How Did You Get Engaged post.