Surprise Blog Hop

You should have arrived here from Heather.

If not, you should go back to the beginning and start at Erica's blog, don't want to many any surprises or blog candy!

I want to begin by saying Congratulations to Mike and Erica!!!!!

Also congrats to her little Bella who I will be sending a small package out to this week.

Here is the card I am sending to her and her now husband:

All of the supplies came from CTMH.

And now for my layout that has to do with love/marriage.

This was a picture taken during our cruise that we went on for our 10th Anniversary, two years ago, in the Grand Cayman Islands.

I remember we were looking to see which pictures we were going to buy and a little old lady asked us how long we had been married. We told her we were celebrating our anniversary. The next thing I know she had bought the whole package for us which had to be about $70 or $80.

We really enjoyed our swim with the dolphin.

Also that anniversary I finally got my diamond ring to go with my platinum band.

This year will be our 12th Anniversary on 7/7/11.

So in 5 day!

I thought I would share our story of how we met and married:

We met in late 2008 on the internet without any intent of a relationship. We weren't on the net looking for love, relationships or any of that.

I just happened to go to a chat room that he was in at the time. It was an army chatroom. I went in there to ask some questions because I was thinking about joining the local army national guard.

The next thing I know we are chatting and IMing and even before long it was an everyday thing.

We were racing to our computers at a certain time to talk to each other.

Then he started calling me on the phone as well.

He was stationed in Washington State and I was in Texas.

Could we be any more farther apart?

He told me that he was leaving for Korea in January 1999 for a year.

I thought to myself this is the perfect way for him to have a way out from what was going on.

He said he would call me once he was there, at his unit, and all settled in.

A part of me believed yet a part of me again had a little doubt.

He was only 19 and me, 20, he had no reason to stay in a serious relationship.

Well sure enough a few weeks later he called.

We continued to talk daily while he was there.

And I knew if something not so good was going on over there before he had a chance to even breathe.

We decided to finally meet in person during his leave in July.

We were going to meet up in Montana which is where he is from and he made the suggestion to get married.

It wasn't really anything official, a real proposal even, just a little suggestion.

I flew up to Montana for two weeks.

We met in person and were married a few days later.

Would've been married even sooner if the courthouse wouldn't have been closed since Sunday was the July 4th.

We spent two weeks together, I flew back home, he drove back to WA to see some friends.

And we spent our first 6 months of our marriage apart, him in Korea, me in Texas.

My family knew I had eloped but didn't know him at all.

He flew to Texas at the end of his tour, helped pack my son and I up and we moved to Colorado for his next duty station.

Here we are 12 years later!

Hasn't been an easy 12 years but it has been worth it all.

So that's MY love story.

I DO have BLOG CANDY!

2 things to be exact.

I first want to say I would be happy for you to:

1.Friend me on facebook (link on right).

2.Follow my blog.

BUT I'm not making you do those things for the blog candy.

I do need you to leave a comment though with a way to get into contact with you.

Blog Candy #1- Surprise for the cricut machine.

Blog Candy #2- Altered clock in theme of your choosing.

Why a clock?

Because all relationshiops have to do with time.

Time to meet.

Time to get to know each other.

Time to spend together.

You get where I am going with this.

So the clock can be a theme you've chosen or you can let me if you win it.

Good Luck!

Now onto..... Jen Roseman http://memorieswithjen.blogspot.com/

And here is the complete line up because we've had a few mishaps along the way so you can go to where there may have been a break or you have missed something.

Blog Hop List

If you get lost here is the entire line up....

1 My Cricut Craft Room http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/
2. Alishia Gaff http://alishia-myscrapping.blogspot.com/
3 Amanda Haynes http://craftsbyamanda.blogspot.com/
4. Amanda Hernandez http://mandyscandywrappers.blogspot.com/6.
5 Autumn Johnson Willis http://autumnsbuggycreations.blogspot.com/7.
6 Charlotte Simpson Cornett http://charlottes-creations.blogspot.com/8.
7 Connie Benford Layman http://conniescraftycloset.blogspot.com/
8. Courtney Larson http://craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com/
9. Gayle Shrader http://gscraptime.blogspot.com/
10. Heather Flaherty http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/.
11 Heather Hammen Sipes http://operationcricutdesign.blogspot.com/.
11 Jamie Lindstrom (Scrapbookingprincess Jamie) http://myamusinglife.blogspot.com/
13. Jen Roseman http://memorieswithjen.blogspot.com/.
14 Jennifer Rethorn Lundy http://mybusycraftylife.blogspot.com/.
15 Julie Davis-Perez http://designs-by-julie.blogspot.com/
16. Justina Almanza http://justmycrafts.blogspot.com/
17. Kathleen Schriber http://katscrapfever.blogspot.com/.
18 Kassidy Thomas http://inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com/.
19 Lezlye Lauterbach-Hardwick http://lezlyes.blogspot.com/
20 Mayra Alonso http://gettingcraftywithma.blogspot.com/.
21 Linda Kuniyoshi http://simpleandsassycreations.blogspot.com/.
22 Lucinda Gibson http://thegrowinggibson.blogspot.com/
23 Michelle Hull http://craftychelle.blogspot.com/
24 Nina Wilson http://nina-hotpinkscrapper.blogspot.com/
25. Patricia Holloway http://micraftygal.blogspot.com/
26. Ricki Sholler Tidd http://manicexpressionsdesigns.blogspot.com/.
27 Rosa Kleyman http://kleymanr.blogspot.com/
28. Scrappin Dhilly http://scrappindhilly.blogspot.com/.
29 Sue-Ann Lovell http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com/.
30 Tammy Androsky http://crazycardcreator.blogspot.com/
31. Terry Meyers http://cricutcraftinterry.blogspot.com/
32. Tina Ondrus Keller http://craftyandgreen.blogspot.com/.
33 BLOG CANDY