Friday, February 14, 2014

My Funny Valentine

I've seen a lot of cute "when we first met" pictures on Facebook this week of friends who met in high school or college . . .

. . . but that is so not us. ;) When we first met, Kevin was 36 and I was 35. We got hitched when we were both 37.

Through the magic of PicStitch, though, I was able to mesh our fresh young faces into a side-by-side pic to see what a cute couple we would have been had we met in college. Here it is:

We've joked several times about how great it is that we didn't meet in college.

He's seen photos of me back then -- I was a big fan of all things XL (as you can tell from the sweatshirt above) and also a big fan of flannel. He's admitted that he probably wouldn't have given me a second look, drowning in all that material.

I was pretty black and white in my thinking. I expected to marry someone with a solid job offer straight out of college. Had I met Kevin back then and found out he spent his entire junior year studying abroad in Costa Rica and then backpacking through Europe, I would have thought he was a slacker who needed to get his life in order.

My, how things change. ;)

So yes, we got together a little later than others, but I'm pretty darn thankful now. It's hard to imagine how different our lives would have been if we'd been met in 1995 instead of 2010.

All I know is I'm glad I met him when I did. We were being stupid the other night while brushing our teeth before bed, and I thought, "Thank God we found each other, because who else would want us?" We're dorks. (In the best kind of way, of course.) And we're who we are today because of all those years of growing into who we would become. It's awesome.

He's awesome.

(And he's still as hot as he was fifteen years ago.)