11 years committed to each other
10 years since he asked me to marry him
9 years we have been united as one
Our journey started in 1986 when Jeff and I met.
He was a 13 year old boy from the other side of the tracks and I was a 9 year old with a crush on him.
That year I discovered Ozzy Osbourne and
the Mets won the World Series.
That summer I told my mom I would marry him one day, little did I know that would be true.
Through the years we would run into each other.
He lived his life and I live my life.
We never forgot about each other,
God made sure of that because he had a plan.
We grew, matured, and bettered ourselves.
We had also both given up on finding love,
happily living the single life.
Then 11 years ago he showed up again.
This time though things were different.
This time we took a chance on following our hearts.
We had our first date on a late snowy
Tuesday night in January of 2009.
It was a simple meet up at Yetter's diner.
By that June Jeff had moved in with me.
Life was moving forward and we had started talking about getting married and having a family.
We were engaged just before our 1 year anniversary.
We moved to Sussex County to start our life
together in a cute little lake house.
We were excited to start planning the wedding.
That December our world stopped when Jeff was rushed from a Nucellar Stress test to Morristown Hospital.
That night he had two stents put in due to a
99.9% blockage in his heart.
The doctor was amazed he was alive.
I am forever grateful for them.
2011 finally arrived and time for wedding.
Sadly I lost my job shortly after the new year and I had to say goodbye to the many friends I had made.
Jeff was still out on disability and we had to decided what to do about the wedding.
We had almost everything figured out
and planned so we chose to move forward.
My bridal party hosted a wonderful shower for me.
We had a wonderful day surrounded by love.
During all this we were trying to get pregnant.
Jeff had hoped to announce at the wedding we were pregnant but that didn't happen.
We had an early miscarriage that we kept private.
I only knew I was pregnant because we were already tracking and testing ovulation at that point.
We moved forward figuring the stress of everything wasn't helping and it would happen soon.
On April 1, 2011 surrounded by our family and friends we were joined together in the eye of God.
Forever stuck with each other!
Neither of us would change it!
We were very lucky to have amazing role models of what marriage is in our lives.
We didn't know what the road ahead would hold,
how hard fertility would effect us,
and how alone we would feel.
I know God has amazing things for us ahead and I am so glad that I'm on this journey with Jeff.
