My hubby!

So, I have been married to my wonderful husband, Todd for almost 7 years. It will be 7 years on July 22nd actually. Todd and I met while attending Concordia University St. Paul. He is one year older than me but stayed an extra semester. He lived on campus while I lived with my parents in Como Park. He was going to school to become a DCE (director of Christian Education) and I was going for my Early Childhood Education degree. We both graduated in 2004. I went on to become a preschool teacher at a church and he went off to the Mall of America to work on video games. He decided a few years into his program that it wasn't something that he wanted to do anymore, but he wanted to degree just in case. Now he is currently working a vending machine company. He has been with this company for many years and really seems to enjoy what he does.

So back to how we met. I had been a cheerleader while in high school and wanted to continue that in college. I went to cheerleading tryouts and to my surprise there were actually some men wanting to try out as well. Todd happened to be one of them, which is funny if you know my husband because he is rather short and everyone else was much taller. The cheer instructors were in front of us trying to show us a routine when Todd walked up to me asking if we knew each other. I was pretty sure that I had never seen him before in my life, but he keep pushing the matter. I finally just told him we didn't know each other and I turned around and left it at that. Well we both made the squad and actually ended up working together as partners a few times.

At this point in my life I had been with the same boyfriend for a good chunk of high school and he wasn't good for me. He never hit me though there were a few times he threatened. He was emotionally abusive though and I had been wanting to break things off with him for a while but I was a little scared of what he might do.

So, one day I decided that I wanted to talk with Todd more. He seemed like a nice man and I wanted to get to know him a little more. I called up one of my cheer coaches and got him number from her. I finally got the nerve up to give him a call (he was very surprised) and we talked for hours. After that first day we began spending more and more time together and I was spending less and less time with my current boyfriend. One day Todd and I were talking and I found out that he had a girlfriend up in Brainerd where he is from. This was news to me since he hadn't even brought her up once in all the conversations we had ever had. I was a little disappointed but I had a boyfriend too, so I tried not to let it show. Because of cheerleading we were together a lot and were often paired as partners.

Well, eventually I got the nerve to break things off with my current boyfriend and he broke things off with the girl he was seeing. We started officially dating the end of November 2000. We dated for several years when he asked me to marry him on my birthday October 28th 2003. We were married July 22nd 2005!