**Your relationship story**

We met in Notre Dame High School. She was a senior (18), I was a freshman (15). I was in love then and didn't even know it. She graduated and moved on. I went into the military and was in Iraq (Operation Desert Storm) on the day with the 24th infantry division. I was 18 and the day before we went into the ground war, I received a letter from her.

That changed everything for me. When i got out of the military and came home in 1991 we started dating. Married in ‘92 and have been together ever since. This year is 30 years. We have three awesome kids. Cole 24, Chloe 22, and Lydia 19. I love her more even more now than when we got married. We love to laugh together. Mostly at each other. She has always believed in me when at times I didn't believe in myself.

**Favorite memories together**

She loves to go to Seaside, Florida with the kids. That is her happy place - to walk and hangout at the beach or ride bikes with the kids. We laugh about our times together often. She loves when me and the kids cook or grille for her. We laugh about the time we were all at my daughters college visiting her as a family and she was laughing so hard in the elevator of the hotel she peed her pants. Or we laugh about the time we had to call a security guard in seaside because someone parked their car and blocked us in and he showed up drunk, waiving his flashlight and eating a sandwich. She is so beautiful that she has always been the most beautiful women in the room. But the part I love most about her is what is on the inside. The mother & wife she is.