We went to Chili's on that Sunday afternoon, and the rest is history. He recalls my asking him who his favorite architect was... He said he was pretty impressed by that question. ;-) I recall him telling me he had to get home fairly soon after lunch, because his brother and sister were in town, visiting from Phoenix and Vegas. The picture of Doug's family below was taken the day we started dating, before Joe and Kathy returned west.
I fell for him, hook, line and sinker. Doug then interviewed with Georgia Pacific in Atlanta, while living in Michigan, as he wanted a more stable job (than framing houses in Michigan, when weather would cooperate) before he married me. After landing the job with GP, he proposed to me on November 6th and was asked to report to work in Atlanta on November 10th. After a year and a half of living the fairy-tale life, we got married in Rochester, MI on January 24th, 1998. They had to snowplow the parking lot; it was so COLD! (We actually had both wanted to wait until Springtime, but both couldn't bear the thought of being apart from each other for that long.) The day after we were married, we drove a U-Haul truck down to Marietta, full of our belongings, setting-up life in a nice two bedroom apartment that Doug found. Two years and nine months later, we moved a few miles away, into our current house. Here we've stayed since, on our "honeymoon".
I thank God that he sent such an amazing man into my life! Here's to many more fun years filled with smiles, haunted houses, jazz festivals, train trips to Chicago, camping trips, kamikaze 150-mile bike rides, fun and romantic dates, and lots of guitar-playing.
I love you, Duggers!
With all my heart,
Shelly
1 comment:
ahhhhhh, what a seriously sweet post! What an incredibly relationship you and Doug share! It is amazing to think about all the history and memories you guys have! Are we seriously that old?? Molly
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