That's how long it's been since Tyler and I started dating. (This was our first picture together, camping with my fam the weekend after we started going out) It's really strange to think that it was only just over a year ago that our relationship started. I think part of the reason it seems like we've been together longer is that we've been friends, or at least around each other all the time for 9 years. I'd always be at the Shaw's house and of course, he was there too!
The strangest thing about looking back to those years is that I didn't like him and considered him the last person I would ever marry. (It wasn't that I didn't think he was wonderful, it was that I considered him to be like a brother) Now I wonder what on earth was wrong with me, I was so blind!
I love talking with Ty about "back in those days" and discovering that though neither of us liked each other, (with the exception of a crush I had when I was 14, which I quickly got over when someone told me that he was WAY too old for me! Ha, I showed them!) there were all these funny things that we did or said about one another that make it seem like perhaps we both didn't realize what was going on in our hearts. It's so fun to hear about the times Ty would tell Jordan that he thought I was hot or find himself very pleased that I had sat down next to him on the couch. And I've come to admit that all those brownies I made were mainly because I knew he liked them! I've also confessed that nearly every time I spent the night with Meg, I wouldn't fall asleep until I heard him come home. (I didn't know why I did this, but I did. And back in those days, that was often at 2 am!)
The day I found out Ty liked me, I was really upset at first because it wasn't "my plan." I thought that it was going to ruin the wonderful friendship we had. But that evening, the Lord brought to mind all those strange things I did over the years and made me realize that I had slowly been falling in love with him and just hadn't seen it. I love the story we have, because Ty went from being my friend's older brother who was like a brother to me, to being one of my best friends, then to become my boyfriend, fiance, and husband!
God has been so kind to me to give me such a wonderful love story and the most amazing man ever for my husband! Tomorrow marks our 2 month anniversary of being married. I love every anniversary and special day that we have, because it reminds me of how blessed I am and gives me a chance to recount all the wonderful moments I've gotten to share with my Love! (Sometime I'll have to tell some of the stories from when T was "chasing" me--those are the funniest cause he was so obvious and did such funny things)
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