We met a Macaroni Grill restaurant I was a hostess he was the bartender. I started in August. I flirted with him like crazy brought him his favorite candy and many other things. I was trying to get him to ask me out. Well finally after a month and half trying he finally asked "when I was going to take him to dinner". I took what I could get. After the first date we were always together. If we were working together, we were together doing other stuff. I had already decided to join the regular Army and even signed the papers when Derek and I started dating. I didn't think it was a big deal to date anyone since I was leaving so soon. After a couple of weeks I realized how wrong I was. I knew Derek was the one. So after a day of ice staking we were going out to a nice dinner. I went home to get ready, on my way home I knew that I wanted to marry him. So I got ready quickly and went and got a rose. I went to his apartment and sat him down and gave a speech ending in "Will you marry me". He got up got a card and handed to me. It basically said "I know I am not your first love, but I want to be your last love." He was going to ask me to marry him at the restaurant that night. To this day Derek calls me the most impaction person he knows. That was a Tuesday night. On Thursday or Halloween we decide to tell my family. See I was leaving for Germany on Nov. 7th so we need to do this quick. We were going to do a Justice of the peace so he could join me in Germany. We told my family and they were behind us. My grandma gave Derek a hard time tell him that I was going to be a lot of work. But see Derek didn't believe them and he should have. So I work on getting things together. Derek called his mom and she worked it out of him what was going on. So on Saturday I meet his family and we went to church and we were told that he would marry us in a Church. Derek or me never wanted a big wedding so this was perfect. Sunday we got the dress went to a party at my grandma's house and Aunt Beth's house. Monday we got married. On Thursday I shipped out for Germany. It was fast paced and wonderful. And now I have two wonderful children and a great husband. I would not change anything.
Just wanted everyone to hear the whole story. Yes, we dated from September 25 to October 29 the day we got engaged. We are still learning stuff about each other and we are stronger then ever. This is for the people who never knew the story or never realized that we dated for a month before saying "I Do". We had 3 days to plan our wedding. It was wonderful.
Sorry some of the pictures are not so great we used a 35mm camera for most of the picture and a crappy digital for these.
After we said "I Do"
Back at Derek's parents for our "reception"
