how it all began

It was a beautiful spring evening 11years ago as my friends and I got all dolled up to head 45 minutes north to the Stampede, a country line dancing bar.  We were gearing up for a night of dancing, flirting, and fun.  As soon as we got into the bar, one of the girls I was with saw some friends she knew.  One happened to be a very tall guy named Mark that after chatting for a while, asked me to dance.  You should know something about me... I don't have an ounce of rhythm.  I can't dance to save my life, never have been able to even after my mom put me in dance classes (that I quit after a month).  It's that bad.  2 stepping is something I can kind of do but not gracefully but I accepted the dance with Mark anyway.  We were having a great time when he started waving to someone.  I looked over to see who and that is when the world stopped moving.  Everything was in slow motion as the most handsome man I have ever seen walked through the bar. {I realize the word "bar" isn't very classy but if it makes things any better, it was not a dive bar} He looked somewhat familiar to me so I asked Mark what his name was.  He told me his name was Anthony.  Anthony hmmm, I thought if I didn't already know him, I knew I needed to.  I'm not sure if the song ended before I skipped out and made my way over to this Anthony guy.  Sorry about that Mark. {Remember, the girls and I were out for some fun so being bold was totally acceptable}  I sat down and told him he looked really familiar to me which he responded that I looked really familiar too.  Great line, right? We spent the entire night trying to figure out where from, which was a great way to get to know someone because I now knew every place he had been in the past few years.  {We figured out months later that we had a class together at the junior college for about 3 weeks~he was the hot guy that sat in the back}  At the end of the night I had a napkin with a phone number and he had the key to my heart.  We were getting ready to leave when the theme song to the Dukes of Hazards came on.  I turned around and asked if we could stay just till the end of the song, it was one of my favorites so I started singing along.  At that point, he knelt down on one knee and asked me to marry him.  Of course I said yes but we decided to date a couple of years before getting married.

And they lived Happily Ever After...