When a Man Loves a Woman

On this date in history, 36 years ago, Billy and I went out on our first official date. I was a whopping 16 years old. Ah, young love. But our story goes back farther than that. We met when I was eleven and he was fifteen. I was in soft ball and he lived in the next city over. He would ride his bike all the way over just to watch my games. He also bought most of my fundraiser chocolate bars at a dollar a pop...what a kiss-butt. Well, what can I say...he was madly in love with me. And, why not? I was adorable.

I have to do a disclaimer here. Most of these pictures were taken by others and the quality is bad because they are mostly scanned, but this is about the story today.

Just look at us. This was in Arizona for some wedding.

He looks  happy enough

He has done quite a few things over the years just to impress me. Let's look at a few, shall we?

We had just started dating and we were invited to a costume party. I wasn't sure how "into it" he would be. I figured he would do the standard guy thing and wear an old jersey and hat and show up as a lame baseball player or some other cop-out thing. So, when he comes to pick me up and I open the door...what a surprise, he went all out!!

I Love this guy!!!!!

My softball days

Go Orioles!

He bought them all...sucka!

 We used to dress alike all the time.

Sorry, terrible picture!

I went to his prom. I look like I'm twelve.

I was fourteen

He went to my prom.

Seventeen

We did the old time photos

Remember the Old Towne Mall?

He was my faithful sheep

Baaaah!

We became famous together

Magic Mountain...I think

We got to go on a cruise

Fun Times

And he got daring on the beach

Displaying his Joe Jost t-shirt

Sometimes we had theme parties

My Favorite Chinaman

The wonderful thing about Tiggers is...

He's my only one

We did a company function

Count Duku and Princess Amidala (with The Emperor and Padme Amidala)

He's my happy guy

Caesar

What this man won't do for love.