Bless Your Heart

once upon a time….

m asked how husband and i met. and you know, i don’t think i’ve ever written about that in this blog. so here we go:

about 5 years ago 5 of my friends and i decided to go on a cruise. amy, landon, marc, kevin, jackie, & me. at the time marc (who is now my brother in law) was dating jackie (who was then my roommate). well, we get a little closer to cruise date and they break up. we had already booked the cruise and put down non-refundable deposits. so marc says “i’m not going unless i can bring another friend. i asked my friend jon to go.” this made me mad. we didn’t know this guy! he could be some wacko and now marc’s putting us on a boat with him for a week! marc said “don’t worry you’ll like him. you’ll meet him at kevin’s birthday party.” jon had said he would go and had already put down his deposit. well, i had already paid my cruise bill in full so adding jon made my total go down, meaning jon now owed me about $38.

now a little background info. jon and marc had been roommates in college. they had been friends the whole time marc & i had been friends (since 1992), jon and i had just never met. in fact, jon had only met the guys in the group casually, and hadn’t met any of us girls.

so, kevin’s birthday comes (5/22/98) and i go over to marc’s house for the party. i ask marc to point out this jon guy and i marched right up to him. the exchange went something like this:

me: are you jon?

him: yeah, who are you?

me: i’m shannon. i hear you’re going on the cruise with us.

him: that’s right.

me: well, you owe me $38.

at this point he made some smart comment i’m sure. romantic isn’t it?

well, it didn’t escape my attention that this guy was pretty cute. turns out he thought i was pretty cute too. we stayed up literally all night talking that night. the next night we stayed up all night again talking. by then i knew he was the one. he was such a gentleman and we just connected. and we’ve been together ever since.

so, that october (1998) all 7 of us went on a great cruise to the southeastern carribean. the next august jon proposed, and we were married march 3, 2001. i’ll have to tell the proposal story next time. it’s a good one.

….and we lived happily ever after.