3 Years...WOW!

It truly is amazing how fast 3 years can fly by.

Let's rewind a few years to June 24th, 2005...
I was newly graduated from Mizzou, searching for a job, and enjoying my first month back in St. Louis after college. I was recovering from mono and about to sing with my band for the last time at Helen Fitzgeralds. My band decided to go out to dinner the night before our last gig and we enjoyed a delicious dinner (and wine) at Lucas Park. After dinner, the other lead singer and I continued to hit a couple of other bars for drinks. Somewhere around midnight, I decided that I needed to go home. While in the car, my friend Craig called and mentioned that I should go over to our friend Jeff's house, who was moving to Chicago a few days later.

I walked in and there he was. Mike was sitting on a couch talking to someone. I recognized him immediately, (see we graduated from the same high school a year apart). I don't think I had ever spoken to him one-on-one before but for some reason...maybe it was the drinks, maybe the mono...but I sat down and we talked non-stop. I invited him to my concert the next night and thankfully he came.

June 25th, 2005
I rarely got too nervous singing at Helen's but this night was different. Mike sat in the audience, my parents were there, and all of my friends. Still recovering from mono, my voice wasn't on par but it didn't matter. Mike was there. We all hit the town after the concert and Mike and I were side by side. Talking, talking, talking. Everyone started going home but we had more talking to do...so we went back to Jeff's house, laid on a long sectional facing each other and talked. We talked until 6 o'clock in the morning. I came home that morning, walked around the corner, saw my mom and said, "I am going to marry this guy." She remembers me saying that! Isn't that crazy!

I knew that night that my life would never be the same! 3 years later, we bought our first home and we are going to seal the deal in 66 days!

I wish I had a scanner because I have pictures of us that night of the concert! But here are some that show us through the past couple of years (since I have had this computer and camera)!

Ok, wow...that is enough. Starting to get a little sick :)

Last night, we celebrated with dinner at Modesto. If you haven't been yet, I definitely recommend it! So so good!

Love you, hunny! Happy anniversary!!!