10 years

10 years ago tonight Shane and I had our very first date. We went to Olive Garden, where Shane ate salad for the first time just to impress me! He didn't want me to think he was weird for not eating anything green, I found out eventually though! We had only been dating for a few minutes and I was already having a positive effect on him. To this day he still eats salad. After dinner he took me to Marble Slab where we both got our favorite ice cream, Sweet Cream. We then went to see "At First Sight" at the movies. It was a very average movie but we own it on dvd since it is special to us.

I will back up a minute and tell you how we arrived at this first date. Shane and I met while I was waiting tables over Christmas break from college back home in Hurst. He came in and sat in my section with some friends of mine. When I got off of work I met up with everyone at a friends house. According to Shane I blew him off that night, but I had no idea he was even intersted. After Christmas break was over and we were both back at Texas A&M I ended up showing up at a party at his house. We stayed up the ENTIRE night sitting on the couch talking and watching bad infomercials on tv. When I left he gave me his work number and days and times he worked, but never asked for my number. So in order to get my number he went to the mall where he knew my friend worked and asked her for my number. He called and asked me out and that is how we ended up on our very first date on Jan. 24 1999.

So tomorrow night we will go out to dinner at The Olive Garden, stop for ice cream at Marble Slab and come home to watch At First Sight. And this time instead of getting a good night kiss outside my dorm, we will get to kiss our two beautiful children good night!

p.s. the picture was taken on our very first Valentines Day when we had been dating for 3 weeks, look how young (and skinny) we were. I was 19 and Shane was 21