Our marriage can officially drive today!
Some interesting (I hope) facts about our marriage:
1. We have lived (short-term AND long-term included) in six houses in sixteen years - Lake Blackshear for a few weeks after we got married, the Magnolia Hill house, Cacky and Poppy's, Michael Drive, the house in Lakewood, and our current home.
2. We have only flown together three times in sixteen years! Bahamas for our honeymoon, Washington DC in 2018, and Jamaica in 2018. (I think the years are correct...)
3. Marriage has come VERY easily for us. Dating did not and parenthood has not!
4. Our honeymoon was SO SHORT. We left our wedding venue on Saturday night and drove to Atlanta (where we learned that Eddie had booked our hotel for the wrong night...). We flew to the Bahamas the next morning and then returned on Tuesday evening. When we got to the airport on Tuesday we found out our flight had been delayed and we could've stayed at our resort for a few more hours...but had to sit in the airport instead. I started a new job bright and early on Wednesday morning over 2 hours from the Atlanta airport. THAT was fun. If we had to do it over again, we would've postponed the honeymoon and gone to the Bahamas at Thanksgiving!
5. Our wedding venue was GORGEOUS and we loved it, but we got married on the hottest day of the year in the middle of a MAJOR drought. We've actually never gone to another wedding there and I'm the only one who has ever returned to see it - Mom and I dropped by when we were close one day with the boys.
6. Eddie has worked for the same company all 16 years of our marriage, but has changed roles twice since then. I've worked in two different jobs and had a stay-at-home mom position for about 8 years.
7. In our marriage, we have traveled together to the Bahamas, Jamaica, Washington DC, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee. I feel like we need to get out more!
8. We met officially in a "College & Careers" Sunday School class at our church in 2003 when I was in college and he was working, but because we grew up in the same church (just a few years difference in age), I'd known who he was and our parents had known each other for many years before that.
9. We joke that Eddie started dating me for my college football tickets. I had a student ticket at UGA, but my dad also (VERY generously) gave me REALLY, REALLY amazing 50 yard line season tickets when I was there. I always had an extra and Eddie GRACIOUSLY offered to go with me. LOL! We've only gone to about 5 UGA games since I graduated and we've never been able to top those tickets that I had then.
10. Two years ago on our anniversary, Eddie got C*vid and shared it with me...He brought it home from a mission trip and woke up on the morning of our anniversary SO SICK. He immediately tested positive. I never tested positive, but most certainly had it a day later. Our children never became symptomatic and they lived in the bonus room upstairs and lived off of poptarts and Gatorade for a week while we recovered. I think they lived their best lives that week.
11. We ACTUALLY got married on July 17th at the courthouse...sort of. We wanted former associate pastor friend to marry us and he was very willing to do it, but because we were not in his current congregation if he married us it could cause some issues with his ordination process. Instead, we opted to have a local judge (family friend and uncle of one of my bridesmaids - I'd babysit their kids for years) marry us on the 17th and then we "faked" the ceremony on the 19th and the judge signed the license (he was a guest at the wedding as well). It was weird and hilarious! He literally asked us, "Do you take him? Do you take her? Done." We sealed our marriage with dinner at Applebee's with some friends and played Wii (it was BRAND NEW) late into the night on the 17th.
12. Favorite thing that will entertain both of us for a date? Mexican food and a bookstore!
13. Where have we traveled more than anywhere else during our entire marriage? Disney World. Whoops!
14. Eddie asked me to go with him to a wedding in 2003 and I declined, but still went to that wedding with another friend (I wasn't invited). She and I wound up sitting with the groomsmen at the reception. Whoops! I DID go to Eddie's house afterward to play games with a group of friends, but he's never let me live it down that I turned him down and still went.
15. We got married on those friends' anniversary 5 years later!
16. He's still my favorite person after 16 years of marriage. He does drive me crazy occasionally, but it's VERY rare. He's the BEST.
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