JACOB

Now that I've introduced myself, I want to introduce my MAN!! 

JACOB: Quite honestly, one of the biggest goofballs I've ever met, but with the absolute biggest, caring heart, a love for helping people, a love for his family and friends, a committment to serve people, a love of sports (of course), a desire to work hard and succeed, and a love for ME ( :D )!

Here's a recent silly photo of us (one of many):

Living around the block from me, I've known him most of my life. In the past, he was just the silly boy around the corner who went to my church and helped my dad around the house when he needed it. 

Rewinding alll the way back to 7th grade, in 2006, we "dated". a.k.a. we were friends, hung out, his family came over to swim in our pool, and we went on a date to the movies with two of our closest friends, Lauren and Dylan, where we had a sloppy try at a first kiss (MY FIRST "REAL" KISS that wasn't just a peck ;) ) hiding behind the seats in the movie theatre with his parents and a friends' parents a few rows behind us. 

(And from a few years later...here's a picture of Jake, Me, Lauren, and Dylan at the beach in 2010 for my 17th birthday.)

After that middle school summer, we ended our little fling of a relationship. He stayed mostly single, a few dates here and there, while I wasted no time trying out other relationships, probably not one of my best ideas as some of those experiences I would rather just forget. One of them though, his name was Adam, told me something when we broke up that I have always remembered. He told me when I thought I found the right guy, to give him my heart because I would make him the happiest guy in the world. I have never forgotten that, and now that I think I found him, I've done just that. You could ask him, but I hope that I have made him the happiest guy in the world, I think I have.

Fast forwarding a few years:

One day when he was moving furniture into my dad's new office I remember thinking, "Hmmm...Jake's not that bad. Kind of cute. I could see myeslf with him. He'd be a great boyrfriend" We put the on the office addition in the summer of 2008 and I may have had another boyfriend at the time, but I don't remember very clearly. Either way, at the time, this thought was just a thought and nothing more. 

Again, fast forwarding a couple of years and, little did I know, I'd be falling hard for that very same guy. But that is for another post :)

Sorry to leave you hanging!

~CMS