How it all began…

You know the whole cliché about how you shouldn’t “pick up” anyone from a bar?!?  Well that’s exactly what we did!  I had gone out with my brother Tony to meet up with some friends at a local bar.  Jerry was there hanging out with my friend.  I just flirted a little, nothing too obvious.  After the bar closed, we all decided to go to another bar which is open 24 hours.  On the way there I told Tony that I thought Jerry was cute, his response “the red head with freckles?!?!”  Later that night he asked for my number and nine years later we’re still going strong. 

Through the years there were some really tough times and some really great times, through it all we were at each other’s side. After almost 6 years, he finally asked me to be his wife and of course I said YES!!! Our engagement story is such a cute story, to me anyways.  He’d been talking for weeks about how he was going to buy a bus and turn it into a party bus.  He said one had come up for sale and that he was going to buy it.  Well that was all it took to set me off. I was devastated that he would rather buy a bus than marry me. I started crying and telling him how that was it, I was over it, and if he didn’t want to be with me I was done. I walked into the bathroom to dry my eyes only to see “Will you Marry Me?” written on the bathroom mirror I turned around and he was standing there with a ring.  Then I started crying even more but this time I was just so excited and happy and felt a little foolish for the temper tantrum I had just thrown (so there is the TRUE story about how we got engaged).

We took almost a year to plan the wedding and I would have to say it really was the best day of my life. Of course little things went wrong here and there but when it was all over the man of my dreams that I had prayed for was now my husband. How could life not be perfect?!?

We decided to wait until June 2013 to start trying to make our lives even more perfect by adding to our family. And then nine months later, well… we were still trying. Of course my life can’t be that perfectly planned right?!?

Praying for Baby B!

Jacki