How It All Started

With any new marriage, we always get the question "where did you guys meet?" We had actually only been dating for 9 months before we got engaged, but we met years before. Ryan was a student at Motlow State Community College in Tullahoma, TN and I was working full-time at Bi-Lo at the time. We both had a mutual friend, Amanda who I had worked with at Bi-Lo for a few years and Ryan had just met at school. Every so often alot of us would end up hanging out at Amanda's house during the weekend. This was the late winter/early spring of 2002. By the time that Ryan came over to Amanda's for the first time, I was almost out of the scene. I had made a decision to move down to Florida for a change of scenery. So there were a few more gatherings at Amanda's and some other places where we both got to know each other just a little bit more. In May of 2002 is when I moved down to Florida, until Spring of 2005. I tried to keep in touch with Tennessee life as much as I could with phone calls and emails to everyone. I remember calling and emailing Amanda just to see how Ryan was doing. Ryan in this time had graduated from Motlow and was at The University of Tennessee. - GO VOLS! Now back in Tennessee, we were both dating other people and working, school, etc. and haven't seen each other since 2002, and here it is now March of 2007. I was on the phone with Amanda and had been single for a few months now, and asked how Ryan was doing. The only thing I can remember is Amanda telling me "well, she's single." And I guess that's all it took. I emailed Ryan and we started talking on the phone. She had graduated from UT and was working in Knoxville, I was working over 3 hours away in Franklin, TN. One Saturday after work, in the end of march I drove over to Knoxville to meet her for the first time since spring of 2002 (5 years later). And that's how it all started.....