Valentine's Day Extravaganza Day 1

I found this over at Mama M's blog and thought I'd join in the Valentine's Day fun! Click here to read her post for today's topic: "Tell How You Met Your Love".

Well, as I explained in this post, Keaton and I are high school sweethearts. Here's our story:

We went to high school together all four years. We had English 3 together junior year, but we didn't talk much. Well, to be accurate, he didn't talk much! I would always say hi to him (and other people who I sat around, too) but he was pretty shy I guess and never said much back. To be honest, I kind of forgot about him.

During the first week of our senior year, this guy who had a parking space near mine started talking to me everyday, but I could not place who he was or how I knew him. I finally put the pieces together after looking at my yearbook and realized it was Keaton from junior year English. We kept talking and hanging out, and even went on a few dates that fall.

Then, around October, I got really sick with a virus. Whatever this sickness was ended up getting in my bloodstream and actually made it's way into my brain, causing amnesia. It was pretty weird. Keat was one of the few people I actually remembered (Go figure! I didn't even remember my grandparents!) but it was still a period of chaos in my life. We decided to put things on hold since I had an entire lifetime to "relearn".

We stayed friends and stayed in touch. We "officially" got back together right before our senior prom. By that time, we had already made college decisions. I was planning on going to a local university, and Keat was headed to Florida State in Tallahassee. We decided to stay together and maintained a long-distance relationship for about three years, even halfway across the country. (Okay, to be perfectly honest, 6 months of it wasn't that long of a distance. I spent one semester working for Disney World, so we were only 4 hours apart for one semester!)

In November 2008, Keat was back in Oklahoma for his sister's wedding. While he was there, he took the opportunity to propose! We were engaged for about six months before marrying in June. I can't believe how young we are - he was 21 when we married and I was 20; we're both now 21 - but somehow we knew it was right. I suppose the real irony is the fact that I never wanted to get married! Growing up, I always said I would settle for being an aunt, thank you very much, and had no desire to have a husband. Somehow God changed my heart and I ended up becoming a very young bride.

So there you have it! That's our story!

Write your own post on how you and your love met, and don't forget to link it up to Mama M's website!