Nine Years Ago Today

Today marks the anniversary of when Lloyd and I became a couple.  I can't believe it's been nine years already!  Time sure does fly by when you're having fun and you're in love!  I still find it a little bit funny that we even started going out!  The very first time I met him, he was sitting in his living room with a cooler of beer at his feet (because the fridge was WAY too far away), wearing a Hawaiian shirt, khaki shorts and a fishing hat (by the way, he doesn't fish).  He was completely smashed and it was in the middle of the afternoon.  I was SO not impressed.  A few days later, friend of mine called me to invite me to a spur-of-the-moment birthday party she was having.  I had a headache so I told her I probably wouldn't be coming (we weren't very close).  About an hour later she called back and told me that none of her friends showed up and she was stuck there with her boyfriend and his friend Lloyd.  I felt bad for her so I went over there.  Not long after I got there, she and her boyfriend disappeared for a while and Lloyd and I just sat on the porch talking.  By the end of the night, I had changed my mind about him and thought he was a really nice guy.  We went on our first date a couple of days later and after that, I knew he was "the one."  Now, we've been together for nine years, have been married for almost five years and have a beautiful baby girl.  Who knew that drunken guy in the Hawaiian shirt was going to be the love of my life :)