Share Our Lives; How I Met My Husband

This month for the Share Our Lives link up we're talking about how we met our significant others (or perhaps you'd rather share how you and your best friend met!).  

My husband and I actually do not remember meeting one another; we went to the same middle school so we met at some point during school.  We had a group of friends that hung out together all through our last two years of middle school and while I definitely remember him there I don't remember the first time we met.

Here he is at some point probably in 8th grade teasing me for always snapping photos (I even had a camera in my hand most of the time back then too!)  Sorry the photos aren't the best but I'm taking pictures of pictures for this post. 

Our friend group changed a bit from time to time with new members coming in as they became friends with one of us... but there were a core group of us that remained pretty consistent. Almost all the guys from that friend group headed off to the local technical high school that our son, Alec, now attends and we all kept in touch.  

By senor prom our group had changed a lot.. but my husband and I are both second in from the left on the top and middle rows. 

Ben and I started dating right after my 16th birthday.  I just remember being struck by how sweet and kind he genuinely was. I mean I always knew that but I had never really noticed or appreciated it until then. 

Here I am opening gifts (pretty sure those are the girls I used to babysit behind me with my older sister behind them)

Here's my husband with two of my bears on his shoulder (I'm in the yellow shirt with my back to the camera). 

Neither one of us remembers who asked who out but I do know he had had a crush on me before that and I think I made it pretty clear that I was sweet on him so sometime between my 16th birthday in July and his in October we began dating. 

We went through all our high school and college milestones together. 

Junior semi-formal winter dance

My junior prom

His junior prom

My senior winter semi-formal

My senior prom (he didn't want to go to his)

My high school graduation

I remember being at his high school graduation but I don't have any pictures of it. 

Our first vacation together was while I was still in high school-- my mother allowed me to go away with him and his ENTIRE family (including aunts, uncles, cousins, etc) to Old Orchard Beach, Maine where they rented one small house that everyone crammed into (some slept in tents in the yard!).  We had a great time and went back for several more years eventually adding our own little side trip onto the end staying in York Beach, Maine or Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.  

Various other pictures from high school and college:

We bought our first house together while I was still in college and we were married in 2001 just weeks before I finished up my master's degree. 

I hope you'll join us next month when we look at 5 Items We Can't Live Without

 

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