Be kind and rewind

Ok so let's just rewind for a second and talk more about this kiss. I mentioned that we played spin the bottle and obviously the bottle landed on me. Now at the time this was not the first time I kissed a boy BUT this was the first kiss for my fiance kissed a girl (the crowd goes 'awwww'). From then on we would sneak around and give each other kisses (well pecks) and it was cute and fun. Like I mentioned before we only hung out for one summer and one day we were hanging out by ourselves near the tree forts and he decided to french kiss me. Well it was more like suck my face than a sweet french kiss ha ha! And from that point on I never saw him again.....until 3 years ago.

The funny part is that when we reconnected I admitted to him that was the reason why I didn't talk to him after that. So it's always been an inside joke that I find to be a great story to tell our kids some day. Never in a million years would I have imagined to have a sweet love story to tell people, I just thought I would say, "yeah we met at this bar one night." ha ha! When we met again for the first time, I flew to NY to see him and we spent the weekend in the city. I was nervous for our first kiss due to our history but I wasn't too worried. I mean after all he's had practice! And sure enough it was amazing......not to sound cheezy but the kind that gave me a million butterflies in my stomach! To this day i'm still giddy at the thought of his kisses.

What do you remember most about your first kiss?

Wanna play spin the bottle?

So you're probably wondering why I called my blog "It all started with spin the bottle?!" Well since I was a huge tom boy back in the day I spent my summers hanging out with the kids up the street who were all boys. We would ride our bikes, dig holes in the sands and build tree forts. I met this one boy who lived on the street next to mine this one summer and we all decided to play spin the bottle. It wasn't until the proposal, which we will get to later, that I realized I played spin the bottle with three boys! Go me! Well I only kissed one boy and little did I know that boy would turn out to be the love of my life and now my fiance! This entire journey that i'm currently on all started with spin the bottle......

Since my fiance is 3 years older than me we parted ways after that summer since he moved up to junior high and I stayed behind. I would see him every blue moon around town over the years and remember that fun filled summer but never thought we would reconnect. It wasn't until one day in April of 2006 I decided to search a social media website for people in my hometown that suddenly out of nowhere I found him!

Nervously I decided to write him a message that went along the lines of something like, "Hey! I don't know if you remember me but I'm that dorky girl down the street that played spin the bottle with you when we were younger. How are you?" I pressed send and sat in my seat questioning whether that was the right approach. Well a day later I get a response back and to my surprise it wasn't just a quick hello, it was a full paragraph! From there we exchanged words here and there and it wasn't until a couple months later that we actually spoke over the phone and from there it became a whirlwind journey!

I lived in Illinois at the time and he lived in New York but it wasn't long before (6 months to be exact) I decided to move back home and really take this relationship to the next level. And 3 years later we have decided to take it to another level...marriage!