This is us, well with the exception of a few private nicknames that will for this blog stay deliberately hidden, we like to think of ourselves as the 3 Musketeers! Meredith, Baxter, and I reside in the cozy community of Edgewood, Alabama. Just to go ahead and answer any thoughts the reader might develop through this blog, yes we are "those pet owners" that treat our dog as if he were human. We cant help it, I mean look at him! Not to mention the fact that we saved his life from the humane society should be enough, but also, and most relative to others HE IS EXPENSIVE, also refered to as "high maintenance". By the way, let me go ahead and get this out of the way before I go any further: I am aweful at typing and far to lazy to check this blog for typos, so... officially I yam sorie 4 allll th e type o's you mite find n dis blogg.
So here is the history just to bring everyone up to speed. I met Meredith through some close friends, it was a blind date (well I did see a picture first... I'm not that crazy), there was a date the day after the blind date, and then another a few days later and the rest is... "When in Rome" just kidding the rest is history. I proposed to Meredith at the site of our second date Centiniel Park in Atlanta Georgia. O.K. here is the history on that: so after our first date I was trying to get some ideas for the second date. I, in a very unconcerned manner, asked Meredith a few things she would like to do someday that she had not ever done, but then for the sake of my pocket book I revamped the question positioning it to orbit around "things she has been wanting to do again that are realistic to obtain". Ice skating was one of the first things she suggested. So for the second date where do you think we went... of course, Ice skating!!! The funny part of this is that once we got to Centiniel Park... there was no ice skating rink. Becuase I am an idiot I did not call before we left Birmingham and sure enough they only do ice skating from Thanksgiving to New Years Day, and this day was Jan. 16th... I know.. stupid right! However I did write Meredith a song about it which I will humbly proclaim was a monumental part of me "sweeping her off her feet", or atleast I would like to think so.
Fast forward about a year I took her back to Centiniel Park where it all began and together we confessed that we both wanted to embark on a new journey together in which we would commit ourselves into the holy bond of matromony and live happly ever after. Fast forward another 6 months or so and there we are at our wedding day. WOW! What an experience! Never again will all of those people that we love so much be in the same place again. It really was like seeing worlds collide. Unforgetable, we spoke our vowes, laughed, cried, had some cake and it was off to the honeymoon, well not quite yet. We stayed our wedding at the Embassy Suites where I convienced Meredith that I wanted us to leave the wedding in our wedding clothes and arrive at the Suite in our wedding clothes just so we could fully embrace the "walk of shame" to our room enjoying all the onlookers gasping and ponting with thier hands over thier mouths at "the cute couple that just got married". Just kidding that's not why I requested the wedding clothes deal. I am just really big on symbolism and I wanted us to arrive in our room, her in her wedding dress and me in my tux, sit down, have a glass of wine and recap the entire day play by play. So that is what we did.. all night... we laughed and shared everyhting that happened throughout the day to one another. We enjoyed our entire wedding night, in our wedding attire, listening to one anothers perspective on the day... ok so thats not all we did, we also played Yahtzee... .... .... OK - Moving on!
Honeymoon was in St. Thomas, we called it St. Thomaroo, but that's just cause we are dorks and were experiencing a euphoric high from being away from all responsibility for an entire week. We occasionally look back at these honeymoon photos and ironically find ourselves in the gym for the next couple of days.
Taxi ride
"What a view!"
"THIRSTY! Cokes were$5!"Herve' is a must to eat at if you ever go to St. Thomarooo!
the hotel lobby
so who is this sexy beast?!! JKFast forward again another eight months or so and we got doggy fever! We kind of looked around a while and finally decided if we were going to get a dog we were going to get one somebody else did not want. Let me just make this pitch really quick: Over 30,000 dogs were euthinised in Alabama last year. We highly recomend saving one if you can! OK, Off the soap box I go and back to the blog story. So we looked around for some pups and ended up seeing a picture of Baxter, well "Scooter" they called him on the internet, and immediately we said "that's him"! When we arrived at the humane society believe it or not we actually walked past him three or four times. We could believe it was really the dog we saw on the website. He was so dirty, I mean really he was absolutely filthy. I in no way thought that it was really him. When I finally convinced myself to take a closer look I slowly walked up to his kennel and he perked up, put his paws on the door of the kennel and eye contact was made. Bending over and looking him up and down the sound of all the other dogs grew very faint and I whispered, "Meredith... it's Baxter".. then we kissed. Just kididng we didnt kiss don't you remember how distgusting I said he was, and besides it's a dog, I just said we kissed because I thought my typing sounded like two humans meeting instead of a human meeting a dog. I told you we are "those people who think thier dogs are human", but even us "crazies" have to draw the line somewhere. Anyway, Baxter had intestinal worms and would have surely been a goner if someone did not rescue him. For us he continually pays for himself with his hilarious demeanor and "always fun" attitude. We really lucked out with Baxter, I mean no kidding, he has probably barked less than a dozen times in over a year. I love this guy! (This was our first Christmas as a family)
One year anniversary was the hot Air balloon and I "highly" recommend
I Love this little lady! She is my best friend and by far my favorite person. Fast forward again into 2008 Feb. 14th Valentines day. That is the day you (Meredith) saw this blog for the first time, though I have been adding to it for weeks. As a part of a series of Valentines gift/ Labor of love, Meredith I give this to you. Kind of like a scrap book..you know? My best memories have been with you. My biggest laughs have been with you. The happiest times of my life have all been times that I have spent with you. You are my friend, my support, biggest fan, strongest critic,... You are my wife and I love you and every part of you. Thanks for putting up with me! Happy Valentines Day!!
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