Fun Facts about your Favorite Couple

Ok, maybe we're not your favorite couple, but if you're reading this blog you must like us or find us interesting yes?


So today I bring you fun and quirky facts that you may or may not have known about us. Enjoy.

1. We got together as a couple on March 22, 1998. We were on a school trip and it took some goading from friends to make us see that we'd kind of been falling for each other. Neither one of us really asked the big question, though it was Nate who said "you want to be a thing?"

2. Our first date was intended to be the Sadie Hawkins dance at school, but we decided that since no friends were going, we would go see the movie Good Will Hunting at the Apache 6 Theatre instead. After the movie we had pie at Bakers Square. Sadly, both locations are no longer in existance so we will never be able to take our kids there.

Another funny thing to note - I didn't realize until many years later that we went to an R rated movie in the theater when we were only 16 years old....

3. We did go to Sadie Hawkins once during our Junior year. And yes we did buy matching flannels and the whole bit. We went to four formal dances between Y-Teens (winter formal) and Prom.

4. I had my license before Nate and drove us around for almost two years before he got his.

5. Our first vacation together was a trip with his family to Maine.

6. We have also been to Itasca, St. Louis and Wisconsin together. We'd like to go many more places, but money doesn't allow it.

7. We were engaged on April 24th, 2005 at Como Zoo, specifically in the parking lot. I know exactly which tree we were by, it was one of the grassy islands and we had put a blanket down for a picnic.

8. We were married on May 27, 2006. It was a very hot day. Memorial Day weekend has not been as hot since. Not fair!

9. One of our favorite movies is Punch Drunk Love.

10. Our favorite restaurants vary, but we do really enjoy Khan's, Famous Daves, Sarna's and Barley John's alot!

11.Contrary to popular belief we do want to have children someday, but we are working at being financially and emotionally stable to do so first. So to answer the question that many are wondering - I don't know yet when. We're just enjoying each other for now and taking life one day at a time.

12. Our interests as a couple vary - we like playing our video games, watching movies, cooking together, golfing....I think we're very well rounded!

13. In the last couple of years Nate has started using my family's pet name for me "Boo" which makes me think I will never escape it to the day I die. I think it's cute though. We often call each other "sweetie" "Honey" and I call him "Babe". I am sure to many it's annoying, but I find it endearing and it is one of the many ways we connect with each other.

14. I am definitely the most competitive out of the two of us and have been known to pout when Nate constantly beats me at various games. I won't deny it, I like to win!

15. For our first anniversary as a married couple we went all out as far as gifts go. I got Nate our Nintendo Wii, he got me a Master Replica Photo Puppet of Kermit the Frog. Material things are not important, but alot of thought went into both of those gifts and I will also remember that first anniversary fondly.

16. In high school we took a drama class together. One of the activities was a lip synch that was to be performed for the class. We partnered up and decided to do "Steal My Sunshine" by LEN. This was a BAD choice, it was before good information was readily available on the internet and we could not find the lyrics to save our lives! Have you ever heard that song? They mumble!

17. Both of our cats have a favorite person in the house so it really works out well for sharing the kitty love. Nate is clearly Taylor's favorite and pretty much has been since the day he moved in, where as Pippin has taken a real liking to me. So when we watch TV together, we each get a cat on our lap all to ourselves!

18. We took a trip to St. Louis all by ourselves to visit Nate's grandparents when I was still in college because they said if he came down and got it, they had furniture he could have for when he moved out. On the way down, the air conditioner went out in his old Fairmont. This was in the middle of summer. And St. Louis is a 10 hour trip. It's a miracle we are still together after that trip, especially after the drive home and being stuck in a traffic jam with an overheating car towing a trailer full of furniture. And did I mention it was Father's Day so we were kind of in a hurry to get home to our dad's? The funny thing is though, I only remember the fun stuff about that trip!

19. We're both very near sighted. Nate's vision is much worse than mine even. We joke when we go to water parks or pools that I am the "half blind leading the blind" because we are not usually wearing our glasses!

20. When I was dying my hair I used to have Nate do it for me. It was easier than trying to see what I was doing myself, especially in the back of my head. He willingly did it each time, it never bothered him!

21. When I was in college and living at St. Kate's, Nate came to visit me at least twice a week. He never complained one bit about driving over and I can't imagine the amount of gas he must have gone through and wasn't even working full time at the time!

22. We have one of the most electic collections of music I have ever seen. Anything from rock to heavy metal, to pop to oldies, classical, musicals, opera, you name it, between the two of us we've got it.

23. Our favorite shows to watch together are House, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother and Flight of the Conchords. We watch alot of reruns too.

24. We have both recently tried to be healthier in giving up sugar pop and also trying to cut down on the consumption of high fructose corn syrup in food items we eat. One way we've done this is buy things like organic ketchup and chocolate sauce. Spendier? Yes. But healthy eating just might be worth it!

25. We both still wake up each day super thankful for the person lying next to us. We're not perfect, but we've got a good and happy marriage!