Here we are at the Mud Bowl, Memorial Day weekend '09. Yup, so this is me (and my future maid of honor, Amber). Darren got cleaned up before he was caught on camera. God MUST have been in control to have it start here!
So, we began talking over the next few days. The next weekend was Darren's sister, Jaclyn's wedding reception (did I mention we used their parents' house for the mud bowl- the same backyard as her reception?). Darren asked me to join him, which I did. When he took me home, he made his interests known, to which I gently replied that I was not interested in him or anyone else for that matter. So, I proceeded to do what any mature woman would do, I completely ignored him for the next three days. We ended up at the same concert that following Tuesday night, followed by ice cream with the group. He pulled me aside afterward and we had a chat (that lasted until 2 the next morning). I decided that maybe avoiding the friendship on the basis of fear that it would become something more was not the best idea. I went to Oklahoma at the end of that week and I spent more time on the phone texting him than I did anything. My dad asked what that was all about, I told him nothing, he said yeah right... He knew, even though I didn't. (Side note, at Jaclyn's reception, Darren's dad told his mom that we would end up married. Wise fathers...)
I came back to TN, his family sells fireworks for the 4th, and being a teacher, I had nothing to do, so I joined in the fun and spent a good part of the next 2 weeks hanging out in a fireworks tent. At the end of the two weeks, we knew we would be married by the end of the year.
One trip to Oklahoma to meet the fam, one trip to Florida with John's family later, we were engaged on July 16...
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