Our Story
My first memory of Nate is riding up to go shooting in the back seat of his car while I loaded the biggest bullets I had ever held in my life into what seemed like and endless amount of clips. I later discovered the bullets and clips belonged to an M-1 rifle. The kind used and carried by soldiers in WW2. Then I fell in love... with a Sig Sauer P229 .40 cal pistol. But I digress...
I didn't really pay too much attention to the unexplained connection I shared with Nate until a group of friends went on a Spring Break trip to Vegas in 1999. On our way home, Nate and I were riding in the back seat of a friend's car talking when suddenly we were in a pretty bad accident. We were both fine, but pretty shook up and we spent a lot of the next week just talking about it. We were attached at the hip from that point on.
Nate and I grew quite a bit together in the next few years, but I still didn't quite get it. Then I made a decision to fulfill a childhood dream after college and move back east to work on an educational dairy farm. Nate was pissed. Although he flew out to NY and drove me back to Colorado to get my stuff, we didn't speak more than 20 words to each other the entire trip and we made it in 26 hours! But we survived that fight too.
I remember the day. I was driving home from a car accident (I was a vol. fire fighter) in New York when I realized that there were a lot of people in my life that I could live without if I had to, but Nate was NOT one of them. The long distance relationship didn't work too well, but a year later, I found myself driving back out to Colorado with Nate by my side. We were friends, we had been through a lot both together and separately, and we started doing what we've always done best....talking.
During one of the conversations we had in the following months, Nate looked me in the eye and told me he would be honored if I would be his wife. "Of course" I said, and then I said, as long as you'll be my husband. We smiled and I realized commitment isn't scary when it's the right guy! And the Sig was finally mine!!!
Kitty