Ten Years (+6 +2)

Photo courtesy Tanner Hawkins

Ten years is one of those milestones like turning 30.
I feel older just by saying the number.
Then when I start to add in the other numbers, like us being an “official” couple for 6 years prior to getting married, and dating 2 years prior to that (that’s 18 total for those too lazy to do the math), my head starts to get dizzy.
But I can still remember the exact moment that I fell for her.
We had just moved to town, my dad having accepted a preaching position at the Tecumseh Church of Christ.
On our first Sunday night after church I took a walk around town with the rest of the youth group.
I was 14 years old and getting ready to enter my sophomore year in high school.
She was 12 and getting ready to begin the 7th grade.
We were on North Oneida St., just in front of what used to be the middle school.
She turned to me and said something about that building being a “prison.”
Her blue eyes mesmerized me.
They were so bright, and blue, and full of life.
And I’ve never ever gotten over them (or that smile).
18 years later I’ve enjoyed getting to know what’s behind those eyes just as much as I enjoy looking into them.

1992

Filed under: Love, Tonia

Conversations with the Wife

ME: I really want a laptop.

TONIA: Are you serious?

ME: I know I just sold mine, but I wasn’t using it because I didn’t have it hooked up to a wireless internet.

TONIA: Why would you want a laptop?

ME: So I could still be in here talking to you, playing footsie, and watching Jon & Kate + 8, instead of having to go isolate myself in that cold office.

TONIA: What would you need to be doing on a laptop?

ME: It’s more of a want than a need. I want to finish up that blog post I started on my weekend with the youth group.

TONIA: Why would I want to talk to you while you’re typing on a laptop?

ME: You’ve been sitting here this whole time reading a newspaper while we talked. How is that any different?

TONIA: I wasn’t reading, I was just looking at the pictures.

ME: **blank stare**

Filed under: Apple, Family, Huh?, Laptops, Marraige, Tonia, Wireless Internet

Thirty

Guess who’s thirty.

It’s weird to think that we’ve been together nearly half my life, but now that my sweety is switching decades it really hits home. I just can’t imagine my life without her in it. You hear the phrase thrown around all the time, but I definitely married “up”.

Happy Birthday Tonia!! Here’s to 100 more!!

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