8 Years Yesterday!!

Nov. 2, 1999 (our second date)


So it was 8 years ago yesterday that Jared and I had our first date!! It was weird thinking about where we were when we first met and what we did on our first date and such. So I decided to get a babysitter (my parents), so that we could go out to dinner together. So we went to "Applebee's" and had a great dinner and a little dessert also (they have this new thing called dessert shooters and they are just the right amount of sweets for after dinner and only 2 dollars). Anyways so after dinner we thought that we would go over to Target to pick up a couple of things that we needed and look at a couple of things we didn't. As we were walking down the main aisle just minding our own business we bumped in to the Director of the Portland Institute downtown. Which is ironically where we had met eight years ago, so not only is that where we met, but he was also there for the first time that we met. His name is Bro. Weed. He is such a great person and so easy to talk to. So he asked us how we were doing and we told him that it had been eight years since our first date and that we were out on a date. He was also there with his wife. We talked for like 45mins in the middle of Target. It was so nice catching up with him and talking about old times. He couldn't believe that our oldest is six. He told that he still tells the story of us meeting and other stories about us to his classes. That is weird sometimes to think about, but cool to know that we were someone that left an impression in his life. I know that he has also left an impression in ours. So how weird was that to run into someone that was there the day that we met and through our courtship on the day we were celebrating being together for 8 years.