8 years and counting...

Was anyone else cheesy enough when they were dating to celebrate a "dating anniversary?" We totally did, on March 28th it will have been EIGHT YEARS since Trent and I had our first kiss. Ooooooh, how cute huh? I know, I'm so stinkin' cheesy. So if you get a weak stomach by reading complete cheesiness this would be a good post for you to stop reading now!I made Trent promise we'd always celebrate our dating anniversary because it's at a more fun time of year (our anniversary is Dec. 30th, right smack in the middle of Christmas and New Years, always a crazy time). So in honor of eight awesome years being in love with this guy I thought I'd share our story with you guys.
So there we were, 17 years old, at the end of our senior year of high school. We'd sort of dated during our jr. year but I was so non-committal and crazy nothing ever came it but drama. We had drifted our separate ways for awhile but we started hanging out again because of a mutual friend. I was finally starting to realize what an amazing guy Trent was. He was nothing like any of the other immature high school guys around. I however, was still completely not interested in having a boyfriend and reminded him of that regularly (nice huh?) However, he could see through the lame things I said knew I was falling head over heals for him (I had no idea at the time that I was such an open book to him.)One night while I was working Trent showed up and surprised me with tickets to a Lonestar concert. I was GIDDY with excitement. Was it because I cared about seeing Lonestar in concert? Nope, I was just excited to go with Trent. He told me 3 weeks before the concert and I could think of nothing else from then on. (By the way, I was still completely denying that I even liked him at this point, to him and everyone else).
Finally the night came, I probably spent 3 hours getting ready. :) We went to dinner before and then had fun at the concert. We spent the whole evening just laughing and joking around. We started holding hands (oolala!) and it was seriously just the perfect night! I'd told Trent months before about a weird dream I'd had about dancing with him in a parking lot. He remembered and took me to go dancing in a parking lot to "fulfill my dreams." haha. We were listening to a Lonestar CD and danced to this song: Not a Day Goes By, Lonestar.
We were dancing and I totally wanted him to kiss me. I was sure he wasn't going to because I'd spent that last 3 years we'd known each other telling him nothing would ever happen between us. I finally got up my courage to look at him (I had something planned to say to him to hint that I wanted him to kiss me) and he went in for the kiss! I was totally caught off guard and DODGED it! haha. Then I was all flustered and said "I'm so in love with you just kiss me now!" (Pause for a moment, how many of you said "I love you" to your spouse BEFORE you're first kiss?haha)
I'm sure he was thinking "That's exactly what I was trying to do!" but he was kind enough not to say that out loud to me and he went ahead and kissed me. From then on I was completely head over heals for him. I really didn't want to get too serious because we were young and he had a mission ahead of him. I'd go on dates with other boys, say I'd have to be home early, then go hang out with Trent afterward. Nice huh? It continued like that for a long time but both of us got sick of dating other people just for appearances and we finally started just dating each other like six months before his mission. When he left we were completely in love but the only thing I told him before he left was "If I'm not married when you get back then I'll wait for you." :)I dated during those 2 years but the only thing those guys did was reconfirm how amazing Trent was. I had no idea how he was feeling about me when he got back from his mission because it just wasn't something we talked about while he was gone. I knew before he even got home that if he was still in love with me that I wanted to marry him. We had our first "DTR" in 2 years the night he got home, 2 weeks later we both confessed to each other that we wanted to get married, a month later we were officially engaged, and 3 months after that we were married! And we are still living happily ever after!