Troy and I met long before we
started dating. We both grew up in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. I lived
on a big horse farm with my older brother Justin and my twin sister
Amanda. Troy "TJ" is one of my brother’s friends and Troy
also, has a younger sister named Tiana who is my friend.
So we all grew up knowing each other because, our house was the
place to be and we always had lots of friends over to go horseback
riding, swimming, fishing, four wheeling, etc.. So Troy
and I grew up knowing each other but, Troy is 6 years older than me
so as an 8 year old little brat and a 14 years old teenager we were not the
obvious pairing. But, I always had a huge crush on him. To
him, I was just his friends annoying little sister. So fast
forward about 15 years and his sister told me Troy’s birthday party was
coming up. I said invite me to that party! Here was my
chance, we were both grown up and single. I was 23 and he was
turning 29. So she extended the invite and I don't even know if he knew I
was coming or not. Anyways, I was so nervous. I went and got
him a 15 dollar gift card to Walmart and walked into the bowling alley and
handed it to him. He was shocked and intrigued I could tell.
But, Troy is naturally a shy person and I was totally taken by him,
I was laying it on pretty thick flirting a little too hard. I knew
I had to play it cool. So I hung back and talked with his other
family who I knew well because of growing up as friends all these years.
Then the party went from the bowling alley to the bar and we chatted and
laughed and I did the " Thriller Dance" to impress him
and it must have worked because, when I went to leave around 11pm he
asked me multiple times not to go. I said if you are still interested call me
tomorrow and guess what? He did! And the rest is history
really. We started hanging out which turned into dating which
turned into a marriage proposal, which was sweet and simple at our place down
on one knee. We got married at a beautiful golf course in Lake
Geneva on April 9th 2011 and after struggling with getting pregnant for
years we were finally blessed with our beautiful daughter Scout.
She is the reason for me to start this blog to share my story as a mom and
wife. She is our pride and joy and we could not be more proud.
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