When I started this blog, the kids were 7 months old. I’ve always wanted to go back and add those first few months so we have a record of it. Now that they are seniors and almost 18, I’ve been going through a lot of nostalgic moments so it feels like a good time. While I was going to go back and add those first few months I decided why not go all the way back to when Greg and I met. So here we go….

Greg and I met at the Main Street Bistro on St. Patrick’s Day 2007. I was there with a bunch of my friends. I intentionally wore red that night because I wanted a kiss. Greg was there with a group of his friends.

I don’t remember much about that night other than making out with a guy by the outside bar and dancing with my friends.

The next day I got a message from a guy. I figured it was the one I had made out with. He asked me out to dinner. I agreed with hesitation. I couldn’t remember what he looked like so I was nervous about who would pick me up.

The day of our date I scored some free tickets to a hockey game so I asked Greg if we could go to that instead of dinner. He agreed and I told him he’d have to pick me up. He picked me up in his old 1970 Ford F250 with bullet holes in the bed, a worn floorboard you could see the ground and a large PORN sticker on the dash. I wasn’t so sure about this…..but we had a good time at the game. He talked my ear off about his family and how he was from Oregon. He asked me out on a second date and I agreed. I found out years later that he got 2 girls numbers that night and went out on a date with the other girl too. I guess I just made a better impression 🙂

For our second date I met him at Ann Morrison park where him and his friends were playing frisbee golf. I was a little nervous meeting his friends and going by myself so I had told my sister that if I text her a certain word she was to call me and tell me that she needed me for something so I could leave.

I didn’t end up having to use my escape but Greg certainly left me questioning what I was doing. He was barefoot, shirtless and hairy! He was walking around drinking a lot of beer and when one of the frisbees went into the pond he walked into it and felt around for the frisbee with his feet. He ended up pulling it up with his toes. I still can’t believe he did that and I didn’t run.

I happened to be house sitting for the owner of the company I was working for. I invited Greg over to hangout, have dinner and get in the hot tub. He ended up coming over there every night I was house sitting.

For a while I still wasn’t sure about him. I was newly single, fresh out of a 5 year relationship. He kept calling, perusing me and inviting me out and I kept going.

I have pictures of the night, my friends and I took a lot of pictures when we went out back then. I don’t have any pictures of our first few dates. I do have some from our first camping trip which I’ll post next.

My friend Shannon, the one on the right also met her future baby daddy this night!

I have scrapbooked this night so this is a picture of the page from my scrapbook.