Newlyweds for 1826 days! (That's 5 yrs Today!)

HOW WE MET: We met through church. I (Brittney) saw him first when he came with Randy and his co-worker Dan (a friend I happen to babysit for). Well I happened to ask Dan who the guitar player was because I thought he was really HOT! He told me his name then we went on our way. Dan went and told RC some chick in the back of the church thought that he was hot. About 4 months later we started playing softball together on the church softball league. RC saw me and my best friend Emily walking with Senior written across our butts and asked Randy who we were. Randy told him we were sweet girls. RC and I got to talking every Friday night. One Wednesday night I made the mistake of telling Julie that I liked RC and she got my mom to invite him and his best friend Matt to go to Perkins with us. They sat and talked about old times and I set there bored to death. Then my crush turned into a junior high crush, I always asked Emily to ask him to go to the movies with us or to Steak'n'Shake. We then went to lunch on June 25 with Emily (who I thought RC liked) he asked us to the movies that night. Emily bailed on us to give us some time to ourselves. We went on our first date that night and saw Mission Impossible 2. He was very sweet and tried with out offending me to touch my hand which he ended up getting the opportunity because I was freezing. That Friday on June 30 we became official and have been together ever since.

WHEN WE GOT ENGAGED: December 22, 2000

HOW IT HAPPENED: First off I need to say he kept telling me that he was going to get the ring and give it to me on valentines day. He took me to Passagrille Beach on December 22 (in middle of my trying to get packed for us to leave the very next morning.) He tried to get me there by sun set but that didn't happen. Thats okay it was still romantic. He got down on one knee and said this:

"I know that you and I have been waiting for this day for a long time, and when I think about it, I really do love you and I always will. You are the other piece of my puzzle. You and I both know that times will be tough and we will have our fair share of troubles, but through those times we will make it because of the strength of our love. I have never loved anybody else as much as I love you. I have always felt more scared of loosing you than spending the rest of my life with you, and that is how I know that this love is true. You have taken this lonely, bitter child, and turned him into the happiest man on the face of the planet. There is nobody else that I want to face the trials of life with. So, if you let me, I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Brittney Dyan Hubbard will you marry me?"

He then took me to dinner at The Hurricane where we sat and talked and I couldn't take my eyes off the ring. Then we went and had Christmas with his parents then back to my house to have Christmas with Emily and her family then to finish packing.