How we met/all of our encounters until we began dating

In June of 2004, I was sitting in the "office" working on about five different computers. I was a network administrator in the army and at the time I was fixing all these computers that were messed up. The NCO of the Sen team came in and introduced me to his new soldier. The SEN team is who provided us with internet and phone service so I worked very closely with them. I stood up, met my future husband, and turned away and didn't give him a second look.

About a month after that, I was walking to the gym with a guy who I worked out with daily. I saw this guy, totally forgetting he was the new soldier on the SEN team, doing backflips off of the concrete bunkers we used to shield us from the mortar rounds that were being fired at us. I looked up, immediately thought that he was a moron, and just kept walking. Never spoke to him and honestly never believed that I would ever have to unless I needed to talk to him about work stuff.

Fast forward to November 2004. I was having a very bad night and so I went to go see my friend Brian. He happened to live in the same room as this guy I had seen a couple times. I was complaining about how some guy I liked said I wasn't dateable. Chris popped up out of nowhere and said, "You're not dateable, you're marriable." I gave him this look that expressed my utter confusion and dismissed it like it was nothing. I turned back to my friend and just kept talkin to him. Oh, little did I know what the future would hold.

In December 2004 the SEN team's replacements had arrived. It turned out that one of the guys that was there replacing them was someone I was very close with in basic training. I was in their room one night with Kurtis talking to him and my friend Brian. Chris got all upset I guess because he realized I liked short, blonde guys and so he loudly announced he was going to bed. He took his shirt off and I saw his tattoo. I noticed it and complimented him on it. I think I shocked him so badly by speaking to him that he couldn't talk back. LOL.

Two days later Chris and I started actually talking and we realized that we had a connection. We spent the rest of his time in Iraq together and he left for Germany and we emailed one another. I got sent to Kuwait for a month after Iraq and then when I returned to Germany I finally got to see him after I got back off of leave. I had gone to California to pick up Whytney and so he got to meet her then as well. He loved her right away.

More to come......