Story time boys and girls!

Lately I have been reading and hearing romantic stories of how people met, or starting dating, or how the ended up together. At first I was feeling a little jealous because though I am so very in love with my husband, our story to me was very boring. But the more I thought about it the more romantic it seemed. So I thought that I would just share that story with you!


Ian and I met at school when we were in grade 9, after his family moved here from Tumbler Ridge. My family had just started becoming friends with the Burchart family and the Groves had been family friends with the Burcharts for years and years. Ian and I were both friends with Talitha Burchart and therefore we became friends ourselves. Now back in grade 9 and 10 Ian and I were not attracted to each other at all. He was a short "stickman" as he called himself and I was quite a lot bigger than I am now. But even though we were not attracted to each other it didn't stop the fact that we were pretty good friends, good enough friends anyway that when Ian moved back to Tumbler Ridge we still stayed in contact.

I don't think that it was until after we had seen each other in Kelowna's Orchard Park Mall in grade 12 (HE WAS REALLY TALL ALL OF A SUDDEN!!!!!) that we really started to talk to each other more via MSN Messenger (I know, very, very nerdy). Ian and I could talk for hours and hours and hours with each other, it was never even about anything important, we just had fun conversation. In fact, it got to the point where if he wasn't online, I would be very sad and I found out that he felt the same way.

Then after we graduated, Ian went to school in Grand Prairie and I never got to talk to him unless it was christmas break or a reading break. It made me sad and I missed talking to him. At this point, we still were not attracted to each other yet.

Then when Talitha came back from Grand Prairie (she was also going to the same school as Ian) she had brought pictures from the Christmas dinner they had and she had a picture of really tall Ian in a suit and I couldn't help but think that Ian was starting to look pretty cute.

I was so very happy that Ian had come back home from bible school and I could talk to him again all the time. I still had not told him that I thought he was cute!

Then one day when Ian and I were talking, he mentioned playing his guitar in school and how he had a band. Like most women in this world, I am attracted to men who can play an instrument, my favorite being guitar and drums. So I remember saying to him when he was talking about being in a band, "Ian, promise me that you will never play guitar for me while dressed in a suit because I think that I would just fall in love with you on the spot."

Well that started this whole crazy thing!!! Ian then realized that I was attracted him and he had heard that I had lost a lot of weight and I sent him pictures and he thought that I was cute too!!! And because Ian and I could talk about anything, we really started to like each other. Ian was going to move to Kamloops and find a job here so that we could start dating or whatever but then he started to freak out about the whole idea and decided that he would take a job in TR and not be with me. I was very upset and Ian for this and didn't talk to him for a few weeks, but then I guess I got over it and forgave him and we were back to being friends again.

As the summer passed, Ian moved to Prince George and we still talked all the time. But our friendship was growing stronger and stronger and we started telling each other things that we didn't tell anyone else. We started to trust each other more than we trusted anyone else in our lives.

Then it happened, in April of '04, I was taking a trip up north to visit by brother Phill and his family and I was to going to make a stop in PG to finally go visit Ian. We had only seen each other once in four years and we didn't even talk, it was just a quick "hi" and "bye". I was so excited, I left really late on the bus and got to the bus depot in PG at 9:00am the next morning. And there I sat waiting at the doors for Ian to come pick me up. Butterflies in my stomach! Then there he was, he pulled up in his little Toyota Tercel, walked into the bus depot and looked right at me and didn't even recognize me!!!

I was so excited, I don't even know how I contained myself. There I was with the boy that was like my best friend and he was so good looking and I was right there with him!!! Fortunately for me, he was thinking that I was very cute too!!! We went to his house and sat on his couch at opposite ends. Ian's mom called him and he told her that I was there and she asked how I looked and I heard him day to her, "she looks really good." That's when I knew that he thought I was cute too. After a few hours the opposite end of the couch became sitting right beside each other, which led to holding hands, which lead to snuggling!!!!

Ian tried soooooo many times to kiss me when I was there as well but I couldn't handle it. I really liked him and I knew that if I kissed him, I would fall in love with him and we still lived too far apart for me to be in love with him.

That summer I couldn't stop thinking about how badly I wanted to date Ian and how badly I wanted to kiss him. I saw him a few more times with stops through PG, and nothing ever happened. Then the most exciting thing happened yet!!! Ian decided that he hated PG and that he needed to move again and he decided to move to Kamloops!!!

He moved to Kamloops on Oct 1/04. That's the day I finally got to kiss the boy that I was so very head over heals in love with!!!! Three days later we officially started dating.

From there we got married and now we are where we are now. Married and happy and still so very much in love.

I LOVE MY IAN!!!!!!

Mothers

An unfortunate thing happened yesterday. A lady that I work with had her mother living with her for the past few months and over the christmas season her mother fell and broke her foot. Because her mother was quite old, she had to stay in the hospital and she was there for quite some time. Yesterday at 2:00 she received that news that her mother had passed away. She held it together at work for the last 2 and a half hours(she decided that she wanted to finish working the rest of the day). She said that she has been expecting this to happen for a week and she was prepared to say goodbye. She shed a few tears at work and we did with her. She said to me that even though her mother was old and it was her time to go that it is still hard because you only have one mom. Then she told me to go see my mom and give her the biggest hug. And that was all that I wanted to do.

I couldn't imagine life with out my mom. I feel like if I didn't have her then my whole world would just fall apart. She has given so much to all four of her kids and she loves us more than we can understand. She does so much for us even now. She is my best friend and I need her. When ever I need someone to turn to I know that she is always there. When I need support for something I know that she will always support my hopes and dreams. When I need someone to talk to she always has an open ear and an encouraging word. Mothers are the greatest blessing that God can give someone and I am thankful for mine everyday.

Mom, I love you.

Two Years