It's a wonderful life!!!

Wahoo....It’s our first anniversary! It has been a wonderful year filled with many happy and wonderful memories. I am going to try and write a post with some of the many thoughts I have had about this past year. What a year it has been! Since we are perfectly suited for each other, the past year has been wonderful. There have been zero fights and not a single unkind word has been spoken between us.

We only knew each other for 113 day before we got married. We both knew almost instantly that this was meant to be. We first met at Barnes and Noble/Starbucks for coffee. I got there early and so did Dan. I was walking around looking at books and he came up to me and ask if I was "Kim". I said "Yes". We went to Starbucks and ordered our coffee. We sat down and BAM three hours went by in a flash. We both had to get home so we said good night. We raced home to be the first to email the other one. We emailed back and forth and decided to go on a date a few nights later. We went to the movies and ate dinner at Chili's, both in Alvin. Again the time flew by as we sat and talked. We did not even hold hands that night!! We barely kissed goodnight! We were both so nervous. We exchanged more emails the next day and decided to meet for another date the day after that. We jumped into the relationship from that moment on. We saw each other almost everyday after that.

We have written over 1400 email to each other and I have saved all of them. I love to go back and read what we were saying to each other. From the start or at least by about the second week we both just knew that this was something special. We kid around now about how Dan ask me to marry him. He claims that he said "Will yo..." and I said "YES"! (in other words he was not able to even finish his sentence and I was saying YES!) At first we were going to have a family only wedding at my house. Then we decided to get married one day after work and then my friends would have a reception for us later in June. I am not a fan of big weddings, that's just not me. It was just my style to get married one day after work. We had a few people join us. We really looked forward to the reception when we would get to see all of our family and friends. It was a really special day for us.

We have blended our two lives together very nicely. Dan moved into my house since CDM2 still lives with us. His house would have been too small for the three of us. We are in the process of selling his house.

It’s weird that we had so many connections before we ever met. MSH was the Safety Officer at his plant. He actually came to my Hurricane Conference a few times when it was held in the Pasadena Convention Center. I was always working the table at the front door. I gave out the program and also the hurricane book that we do. Imagine that...we actually passed right by each other a few times and did not know what the future would hold.

MSH has a blog and has run a few religious chat rooms on the Internet. One of the people that he has talked to over the years goes to a church I used to go to and she knows my ex-sister in law. Weird...I know.

I have a coworker (in a different city, but still in Texas) who grew up in LP with MSH. Not only did this coworker know MSH but her sister also knew MSH from her job in LP. Now that is really freaky!

Recently I found another connection...a former co-worker married a lady who is best friends with a lady who's husband was a coach at MSH's school. We have been to their house two times for dinner.

Weird how close our lives were when we did not even know each other.

We could not ask for a better partner for each other. We both are so happy and just tickled pink that we get to spend this part of our lives together. Whatever we went through in the past has shaped who we are today. We know not to take any of this for granted and we want to cherish each moment we have with each other.

MSH is so wonderful. Not much bothers him. He lets most things roll off his back. He can see everything so clearly. When I am confused about something, I can ask him and he understands it immediately. He knows everything! Seriously. He knows a lot about human nature and why people do what they do. I love listening to him talk. He makes me laugh all the time. He has a great sense of humor and is always cracking a joke or two. He is so stinking funny! He has never gotten mad at me or criticize anything I do or say.

The perfect way to end this post is to say that I am blessed to be Dan's wife. God certainly knew what he was doing when he brought the two of us together.