Miss to Mrs

I think my love story with Cass is a testament to the old sayings "What's meant to be will be" and "Love will find you when you least expect it".

I met Cass my last semester at Pacific Lutheran University (October of 2008).  I was in Anchorage visiting Kelsiann for her birthday.  He was living in the same dorm as my sister at Elmendorf AFB.  My first impression was that he was kind of weird and awkward.  Who was this guy with 3 names (Cass, Nova, Cassidy)?  He said maybe one word directly to me the entire night and was oddly excited about being in charge of the hotel confirmation for the party.  I immediately dismissed him from my radar.

The next day I teased Cass by telling him he had no chance.  1) He was 3 years younger than me.  2) He was in the military.  I didn’t want to move all the time and I didn’t like the idea of being with someone who wasn’t in charge of his own life.  3) He lived in Alaska.  I was going to school in Washington.  I hated the idea of a long distance relationship.  He tells me he took it as a challenge.

After an unfortunate car crash on the way to the hotel and a detour back to the dorms to recover, our group finally ended up at dinner more than fashionably late.  Somehow I ended up sitting next to him.  All night he made me laugh, he teased me, he had me partially charmed…but not convinced.  The next day my sister spent the day with her then boyfriend at the hospital (a result of the previously mentioned accident).  Cass kept me company and from then on we were inseparable.  I ended up staying an extra night and got back to work just in time for my next shift.  

New Years Eve 2008

If you ask him, he knew I was special because I made his bed properly while he was at work before I left.  “You tucked the sheets and everything,” he said surprised.  If you ask me, I knew he was special when he called…and kept calling.  Somehow I made it through the rest of college and went to spend the holidays with him.  We discovered through all the phone calls, texts, and Facebook we had fallen in love.  Our immediate reaction was to get married…and we almost did after only 2 ½ months of dating.  But after some counseling from our parents and a lot of talking we decided to take a step back and keep dating.

1 ½ years later in May Cass and I took a trip to Hawaii for him to meet all of my family in Hawaii.  Yep, immediate family, grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins…the whole family.  We also wanted to do something special to celebrate his big 21^st birthday.  At the end of the trip we went for a night walk on the beach and he made the most romantic proposal on one knee in the sand under a sky full of stars.  That July it was my turn to meet his whole family in Florida.  September 18, 2010 we got married in Alaska. 

Hawaii

Florida

Just because our magical chance meeting fell into place perfectly doesn’t mean our relationship was charmed.  I won't lie.  It was full of challenges, frustrations, comprises, and difficulties just like that of every  other relationship and our marriage is the same way.  But we're still madly in love and can still make each other laugh.

August 2011

As I said earlier being a military wife wasn't my dream, but I love him and I love supporting him.  He makes me so proud and I think he looks like a stud in his uniform. 

August 2011