A Little Intro

Him: Middle of three boys, grew up playing baseball and basketball. Loves motocross, hunting, golfing, camping, and riding ATVs. Works as an electrician.

Her: Youngest of four girls. In high school was a cheerleader, on drill team, played softball and volleyball. Loves spending time with family, traveling, church, camping, and riding ATVs. Is a social worker.

How we met: We grew up in small towns an hour apart. We knew a lot of the same people and there is a by good chance that our paths crossed several times throughout our lives. In January 2008 I was just starting my final semester of college two and a half hours from home. Kit was starting his second semester of his electrical program at home. My older sister's friend had just set her up with the man who would become her husband. She told my sister that she had someone who would be perfect for me. I gave her the okay to give him my phone number. Instead of calling me, he looked me up on MySpace. MySpace was still kind of an acceptable social media website. He added me and I accepted him. We chatted a few times online, but I wasn't super interested because his pictures were from several years earlier and he didn't really look like someone I would date. I decided to just give him a chance so that the person who set us up didn't think I was rude. We made a plan to go out one Saturday. I was home for the weekend and he had went to the city I was going to school in on Friday to visit some friends, but he was supposed to be home Saturday. He sent me a text Saturday afternoon letting me know that he was just getting ready to head home and would call me when he got close. I got ready and waited.... And waited. I was playing board games with my two younger brothers at around 10PM and decided to send him a text. It said, "So, I guess you're not coming". I didn't receive a response. The next day, whenI got home from church I had a text from him. He apologized and said that he ended up not coming home and had tried to text me. I told him that I never received it. I was pretty upset because he hadn't just called to tell me that he wasn't coming. He asked if he could stop and meet me on his way home. I told him no. I assumed that the reason he didn't come home was because of another girl.... I was right. He kept trying for the next couple of days to get me to give him another chance. I went home again that Thursday and we made plans to meet up. I agreed to meet him at Arby's because I thought if I didn't like him I could leave pretty soon. When I pulled in I noticed that he had a nice truck. When he got out of the truck, I thought he was much cuter than his pictures. He ate and I watched him. I ate before I went because I did not have very much faith that this was going to go any where. We ended up talking a lot, with no awkward silences. We decided to go see a movie. We went to August Rush. We pretty much talked through the whole movie. The next morning I told my mom and sister that I really liked him.

You might be wondering what his side of the story was about the night he stood me up. Well, he had went to the city to visit a friend who had set him up on a date. The girl he was supposed to go out with had to cancel, so his friend found someone else for him to go out with. They went out and apparently had a pretty good time. The next day, the day that we were supposed to meet, he went to visit another friend and then planned to head home. This is when he texted me and said he was leaving and would call me when he got close. Then he got a call from his friend, who begged him to stay another night. The girl he had went out with the night before really wanted to go out with him again. He decided to stay and says that he sent me a text saying that he wasn't coming. When I sent the text to him asking if he was coming he looked at his phone and realized that the text said it didn't go through. He showed his friend and tried to resend it. It still didn't work. The next day the girl that he had went out with expressed some pretty deep feelings for him that really freaked him out. When he got home he had an email from a guy he didn't know. It turned out to be the girl's boyfriend. He was threatening to beat Kit up. Kit explained that he didn't know she had a boyfriend and that he was not interested.  Serves him right for ditching me, huh?
You are probably also wondering where my two "brothers" came from. Several years ago my aunt and uncle died, so my parents took guardianship of my three cousins, two boys and a girl.

The rest of the story of us... We got really serious really fast. We met in January, got engaged in March, and married in June.

We lived in a cute little apartment for the first 10 months of our marriage. We then bought our house and a dog. We love our dog. Her name is Koda.

Jenny has worked as a social worker for the State since just before our wedding. Kit recently finished his schooling and apprenticeship to become a Journeyman Electrician.