Craigs_Girl
10-27-2006, 05:08 PM
I guess I've been on here long enough that I'll start a journal so everyone can see what we have so far for our wedding. And I'll start with our "how we met" story and our "proposal" story. (I hope you have a couple hours to read it LOL)
How We Met:
We first met when I switched elementary schools half way through our 5th grade year (in January it would be 14 years ago). Craig and I were both short people (and still are, unfortunately) so our classmates thought it would be fun to get us together as a "couple". So we went with it and
started "dating". We didn't really talk much over summer break, then when we got back to school in the fall... people started to get us to "date" again. We never really broke up but never really acted like boyfriend/girlfriend (even to this day, we never officially "broke up" back then. LOL) So we were really just friends.
Well our freshman year of high school, I moved down to West Virginia (I am from Pennsylvania and that's where I live now) to live with my dad. I lost touch with all of my friends from PA since we were so young and I only visited PA a couple times a year. So, naturally, Craig and I drifted apart in our friendship but I thought of him often and wanted to maintain that friendship and keep in touch, but we didn't.
So I went on and graduated high school, took a year off, then went to
college for 1 year. I was dating another guy at the time and he was leaving for the military at that time. I, then, decided that I didn't like the
college I was attending so I started looking into colleges closer to my home in PA.
I went to look at the school I ended up going to in January 2002. Now this school is a small technical school so it's all in one building. While I was sitting in the main office filling out the necessary paper work, Craig
walked by. He called my name and I looked up and he was walking towards me. (I have always had a crush on him and wanted to get in contact with him again but didn't know where to find him) So he comes over and asks how I am and just makes a little small talk. Then he walks away, I assume to his next class. The admissions lady that was helping me with all the paper work came over and said that she saw me talking to him and asked if I knew him. I told her that we went to school together when we were younger. (The school is so small, that every staff member knows the students). So she said that he was in the same major that I was looking into and asked if she could give him my e-mail address in case I had any additional questions that I'd like to ask students. I said sure! (Mind you, I was still dating someone else at the time.) It was probably about 2-3 months later, I finally got an e-mail from him. (I was living in PA at this time now too) So we started talking a little online a little.
Then I think it was in October 2002, I had a newspaper route and my
grandfather usually helped me (I had a rather large route) but he had just
been diagnosed with cancer and was going through chemo so he wasn't always feeling well. I needed some help one weekend so I asked Craig if he would help (after asking just about everyone I knew). I thought what the heck, I'll see if he can help me. He said he would and ended up helping me 2-3 times after that. I was still with my ex at this time and he was away in the military. I wasn't handling the distance very well at all and our relationship was struggling. Though I was starting to really fall for Craig...
I decided in November 2002 that I needed to get away from Craig and save my relationship. I moved back down to WV. My ex came home on leave for the Christmas holiday and everything seemed fine and dandy. Although I didn't forget about Craig, but he wasn't in the front of my mind anymore. After my ex left, he went to England (where his next station was). Not even a week after that I decided that I didn't want to be with my ex anymore. (I would have had to wait 2 years for him to come back to the states. I wasn't ready to move to England and he was pushing marriage, which I wasn't ready for at that time). I was fine when my ex was home but when he left I was right back to where I was before he got home.
Anyway, I ended up praying about it after that cause I wasn't sure I did the right thing. I was never real big into prayer but thought what the heck, I was so confused, didn't know what to do so I prayed for a sign from God that would let me know that I was doing the right thing. I was crying hysterically cause I was so confused. After that prayer, I couldn't cry anymore. Not one single tear could I cry so I took that as a sign that I was doing the right thing and never looked back! Craig and I started dating shortly after. Now almost 4 years later, we're getting married! :heart:
How We Met:
We first met when I switched elementary schools half way through our 5th grade year (in January it would be 14 years ago). Craig and I were both short people (and still are, unfortunately) so our classmates thought it would be fun to get us together as a "couple". So we went with it and
started "dating". We didn't really talk much over summer break, then when we got back to school in the fall... people started to get us to "date" again. We never really broke up but never really acted like boyfriend/girlfriend (even to this day, we never officially "broke up" back then. LOL) So we were really just friends.
Well our freshman year of high school, I moved down to West Virginia (I am from Pennsylvania and that's where I live now) to live with my dad. I lost touch with all of my friends from PA since we were so young and I only visited PA a couple times a year. So, naturally, Craig and I drifted apart in our friendship but I thought of him often and wanted to maintain that friendship and keep in touch, but we didn't.
So I went on and graduated high school, took a year off, then went to
college for 1 year. I was dating another guy at the time and he was leaving for the military at that time. I, then, decided that I didn't like the
college I was attending so I started looking into colleges closer to my home in PA.
I went to look at the school I ended up going to in January 2002. Now this school is a small technical school so it's all in one building. While I was sitting in the main office filling out the necessary paper work, Craig
walked by. He called my name and I looked up and he was walking towards me. (I have always had a crush on him and wanted to get in contact with him again but didn't know where to find him) So he comes over and asks how I am and just makes a little small talk. Then he walks away, I assume to his next class. The admissions lady that was helping me with all the paper work came over and said that she saw me talking to him and asked if I knew him. I told her that we went to school together when we were younger. (The school is so small, that every staff member knows the students). So she said that he was in the same major that I was looking into and asked if she could give him my e-mail address in case I had any additional questions that I'd like to ask students. I said sure! (Mind you, I was still dating someone else at the time.) It was probably about 2-3 months later, I finally got an e-mail from him. (I was living in PA at this time now too) So we started talking a little online a little.
Then I think it was in October 2002, I had a newspaper route and my
grandfather usually helped me (I had a rather large route) but he had just
been diagnosed with cancer and was going through chemo so he wasn't always feeling well. I needed some help one weekend so I asked Craig if he would help (after asking just about everyone I knew). I thought what the heck, I'll see if he can help me. He said he would and ended up helping me 2-3 times after that. I was still with my ex at this time and he was away in the military. I wasn't handling the distance very well at all and our relationship was struggling. Though I was starting to really fall for Craig...
I decided in November 2002 that I needed to get away from Craig and save my relationship. I moved back down to WV. My ex came home on leave for the Christmas holiday and everything seemed fine and dandy. Although I didn't forget about Craig, but he wasn't in the front of my mind anymore. After my ex left, he went to England (where his next station was). Not even a week after that I decided that I didn't want to be with my ex anymore. (I would have had to wait 2 years for him to come back to the states. I wasn't ready to move to England and he was pushing marriage, which I wasn't ready for at that time). I was fine when my ex was home but when he left I was right back to where I was before he got home.
Anyway, I ended up praying about it after that cause I wasn't sure I did the right thing. I was never real big into prayer but thought what the heck, I was so confused, didn't know what to do so I prayed for a sign from God that would let me know that I was doing the right thing. I was crying hysterically cause I was so confused. After that prayer, I couldn't cry anymore. Not one single tear could I cry so I took that as a sign that I was doing the right thing and never looked back! Craig and I started dating shortly after. Now almost 4 years later, we're getting married! :heart: