VALENTINE Q&A
Since today is Valentine’s Day, I thought I would take a break from regular content to share about Sean and I!
We have lots of new faces around here, so what better way to get to know us.
HOW DID YOU MEET?
We met through Match.com in March 2012. He was working for the U.S. Army in Oklahoma and I was a teacher in Fort Worth, Texas. We talked for about a month before he drove to Dallas for our first date.
FIRST DATE?
Sean drove to Dallas and we went to Dave and Busters for lunch. It was such a fun first date because we could hang out and talk and play games, very little pressure! Lunch went so well, that we went to a movie that afternoon together and then to dinner before he drove back to Oklahoma.
After our first date, we flip flopped weekends between Dallas and Oklahoma until Sean officially moved to Dallas in November. For our wedding, we calculated how many miles we had driven while dating long-distance and it was over 20,000.
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN TOGETHER?
Almost 12 years. We became “Facebook Official” on April 13, 2012. We got married 1 year later on our 1 year dating anniversary, so 1 year dating + almost 11 years married!
HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO GET SERIOUS?
Not long. We both knew pretty quickly that we were in it for the long haul. We officially started dating in April 2013 and by May, I had already put down a deposit with our photographer and booked the church for our wedding! I basically planned our entire wedding during the summer, before we even got engaged, but I told him I wasn’t going dress shopping until I had a ring on my finger.
WHEN/WHERE DID YOU GET ENGAGED?
We got engaged on September 30, 2012 at the top of the Texas Star Ferris Wheel at the State Fair of Texas. Once we were at the top, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. My response was, “Holy Crap!” quickly followed by YES!
WHEN/WHERE DID YOU GET MARRIED?
We got married at the church I grew up in, in Palestine, TX on April 13, 2013. We had the sweetest wedding, surrounded by amazing family and friends. It was truly everything I dreamed it to be!
WHERE DID YOU HONEYMOON?
We went on a Royal Caribbean Cruise to Jamaica and Grand Cayman. It was so beautiful! However, I think I slept the first two days of our honeymoon, just trying to recover from the wedding. In Jamaica we went to a private beach and in Grand Cayman we took an excursion on a catamaran and swam with the stingrays!!
DOES LIFE LOOK LIKE YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD?
This might be a loaded question! Honestly, not at all and in reality, life rarely looks like what a 20-something thought it would, and that’s ok! When we got married, I imagined that we would live in a suburb of Dallas on a culd-a-sac with 2 kids and 2 dogs.
God definitely had other plans. When Jack was 3 months old, we move to Colorado. We didn’t know a soul but we knew God was leading us there. It took my heart a very long time to accept it, but the Lord has been so so gracious to make this home.
Sean has faced many health struggles both in Texas and in Colorado. His body has healed a lot being in the dry air of Colorado and we’ve experienced setbacks in other areas. It’s really hard in those moments to not be near family, but the Lord has provided friends that ARE family and a community that we’ve learned to lean into.
God has been so faithful to provide, not only a home, but a church family, and community that we love. We have been able to build a beautiful life here and although the Texas roots run deep, home is where Sean and my boys are, and always will be.