8 years

Today is our 8 year anniversary - he is on call and I am on the computer - very romantic. I am just going to share a few things. One of my favorite things about us is that we are a team. We have been a team for a long time - we have competed together on at least 3 odyssey of the mind teams, math comp teams, and an animation team. We have partnered up for lots of school projects that required team procrastination and late nights - the most infamous being our bio presentation on Mendel. At six am the morning of, I got the genius idea of using Twinkies (strawberry and white filling and plain white filling) to show basic genetics. Anyways - K said that was dumb and I told him he was crazy and made my mom go to the store for Twinkies - it earned us 10 extra credit points and a life time of memories. This last weekend we did this walkway - as a team - and both our backs hurt to prove it. He was on call Thurs, sat, sun and today and he still did this with me. While we were working yesterday he said "this is your anniversary present" - oh K - don't say things like that. It would be pretty hard to top a present like this.

This was when we laid them to see how they fit and to label them.


This is the finished walkway - we still have to mulch on the sides and seed grass up to the mulch but it looks awesome!!! It is a night shot because I just went out to take it right now - but it really is beautiful.


I have known K for over 22 years when in 1986 - his (then) toilet bowl haircut moved in across the street. These are a few memories of the good old days. (good old days being anything before HS when homework and sports took over)

- In 6th grade he was the TEACHERS PET - it seriously used to make me crazy. She would even say k said the right answer when I didn't hear him say anything - I had to make fun of him for it.

- We used to take turns carrying each others backpacks home. Don't laugh - we had a system - we believed it was easier to carry one on the front and one on the back - it kind of balanced you out.

- We ran every morning to Junior High School because we left late and were ALWAYS almost late to school. Things haven't changed much.

- In sixth grade I beat him in the "Invention Convention" - I got 2nd and he got
3rd (nice - we were very competitive with each other)

- I was a punk to him- in the summer between 7th and 8th we took a geometry class together and we would get "money" for doing things. At the end of the class we could buy things at an auction with our money. I purposely ran up the price on some colored pencils I knew he wanted then stopped so he had to pay the high price. (He still has those pencils)

- The summer after 8th grade we took IPS together and he had some serious bad breath - I told him so everyday.

- We would play baseball almost everyday after school in the street (he would play barefoot - CRAZY - and I was soo the better player:)

- He once told me he could fart whenever he wanted to - of course I told him to prove it!! (now I know better than to have that conversation with him)

- We had a bike race in 6th grade around the block - I kicked trash (mind u he probably only weighed 55 lbs, I on the other hand..)

- In HS he and my brother had a contest in the summer to see who could go the longest without showering - it was gross.

- I was in love with him in sixth grade.

K rocks!!