Show Us Your Life: How I Met My Husband!

My friend Liz did this and I thought it would be neat to share our story!!

It was the spring of 1998. It was towards the end of my freshman year of high school. Right around this time EVERYONE was using AIM. I lived in LaPlace at this time and it is such a small town it wasn't hard to find someone on AIM who was from there. Well, that's where I met Jason; yes on the internet!! HAHA!! At the time though it wasn't strange at all.

We found out that we had a lot of mutual friends in common, so it wasn't too weird. We started out as friends right off the bat. I went to school in NOLA, so I would spend some weekends in town with friends. One weekend my friend Angela was having a party at her house. At her house I met this guy Chris (we later dated for 4 years). I went home the next day and told Jason all about the party and Chris. Jason decided that right then and there he wanted me to be his girlfriend. So, he asked! Nothing special, just asked.

We dated about 6 months or so then he moved to Memphis with his dad. Being 16 we knew that there was no way we would or wanted to do a long distance relationship. It was real hard, not only because I had fallen for this guy, but he truly was my best friend at that point. After he left I started to date Chris. We dated for 4 years!! Through those 4 years Jason and I stayed in touch. At first it was hard because he would tell me all these things about these girls he dated. I didn't want to know any of that!! But, eventually our friendship built back up.

December of 2002 Jason came home for Christmas break from the ARMY. We got together and discussed how things would work out between us. He was still going through training in the ARMY and planned to move back to Memphis when he finished. I was still in school at LSU. He convinced me that it would work, that he loved me and wanted to be with me. So, I decided to take the plunge!! He was finished with training in April and moved to Memphis. We saw each other about once a month and in September of 2003 he moved back down to NOLA to be with me; however, in October he was activated. He had to go to KY and spend 5 months there. He deployed in early 2004. We stayed committed to each other through that awful time.

He came home in March of 2005. I say home because he moved to NOLA!! We were engaged June of 2005, married on March 18,2006. We welcomed our first child, Jay, May of 2007, and Jackson in September 2009. Jason is truly my best friend and I can't wait for the next chapter of our lives!!