In High School my friend told me about you, he said we would be perfect for each other. I didn't believe this at the time. I was dating the quarterback of our football team and you worked too much. So he gave you my number anyway, and you wrote it in your school planner. Eight years passed and we had both started living our own lives. You worked as a farmer, and I had moved to Nashville to try to become more than just another little country girl in a small town. Then something horrible happened, Granddaddy got really sick and I had to move home. No longer could I go and do as I pleased, and I was happy to be home taking care of him except that it got so lonely, and all my friends were away at school.
So, my friend mentioned you again and gave you my number. I waited what seemed like forever for you to text, in reality it was only an hour! You texted me, and since then we have probably exchanged over 100,000+ texts. We texted for a couple of days and then decided we should go on a double date with our friend and his girlfriend. Then granddaddy went into the hospital. He had to stay there a week, and I missed our first date because I would not leave him alone. You helped me get through that week when I thought I would loose the most important man in my life. I will never forget the compassion you showed for a girl you barely knew.
I fell in love with you that week, we had never talked or even met since high school, but I knew you were the man I would be with for the rest of my life. This scared me more than anything else, I had been hurt so many times and lost so many people that I loved. I didn't want to love you, but I did. Granddaddy got better and we went home and we continued texting. The next weekend we planned our double date, and this time everything worked out. We went to eat at a Mexican restaurant and came back to the house and talked for hours. We were so alike in so many ways, but so different at the same time.
A week later you asked me to be your girlfriend, I laughed, but said yes! After that it was five months of you coming over to Granddaddy's house to watch movies and talk. We had unlimited time to get to know each other and I told you everything. I was terrified of what I was feeling I had never know a love so strong and real. You were there the night he passed away and you stayed with me as I recovered over the next couple of months. We talked about marriage, babies, and our future together. I was so thankful that I had you in my life because if you were not there I do not know where I would be today. You were my strength when I couldn't find it in myself.
We started talking about renovating the house and made plans that we would both live there when it was finished. You asked me to be your wife standing in front of that old house and it was perfect. We tore the sucker down, and rebuilt it the way we wanted it, Granddaddy made sure that we had the money we needed to make the house ready for grandbabies which he wanted so badly to see.
I moved in with you and your parents when the house was at the point it was unlivable. Six months of wedding planning in your mothers house prepared me for... well anything. I was used to living alone by then, but we made it work. We went through your old school books and found my number.
July 17, 2010 we said our I Do's it was not what other's would consider a storybook wedding, but it was ours. It was beautiful to me and I will never forget the way I felt that day. I knew with you by my side I could take on the world.
It's been two and a half years and our love grows every day. I would never change a single sentence in our love story because it is what makes us love each other so much.
