My Beautiful Wife

As most of you know I have been married to this wonderful woman for the last year and almost a half. Loving me isn't an easy thing to do, she seems to do it day in and day out. For those of you that don't know the story: My sister called me up one day and said "I have a friend who has a sister that you just have to meet, so you have to come to Brendan's Pinewood Derby race" "Well" I said, "What is she like?" "Just come and see for yourself"

Ok, so I get there and am there for just a little bit when I notice this blonde looking at me and smiling, continuing to smile she starts walking over to me, and I'm thinking this is Sharlene, she approaches me, sticks out her hand and says "Hi, I'm Jenel, I'm Sharlene's sister" Ooopps wrong girl. I introduce myself and am told that Sharlene will be there shortly. Well, Sharlene show's up and when I see her, instantly, there is a warmth and spirit about this woman that I had never felt before, and I'm an old guy. I knew that there was something very special about this one. So Jenel introduces us, we talk for only a second and then take our seats for the race, me in the front row and her sitting behind and off to the side. (OK, so there is some discrepancies as to how and when we actually exchanged phone numbers) Wait, Wait, Wait, I think I remember. Not long after the derby, our nephews had their Blue and Gold Banquet at Round Table Pizza. Penny called me and asked me if I was coming. I was SICK, I mean really really sick. I had a tempurature, my body ached, I hadn't gone to work that day and I just wanted to stay home in bed. Penny said "Sharlene will be there" I thought for a second, because I really wanted to see her again, but I WAS SICK. Fine, I went and met my future brother-in-law for the first time. Yea, didn't know who he was, but he knew who I was cause when I got to the door he stuck his hand out and introduced himself and invited me in. First impression of Jay...........GREAT GUY!! So I find a seat in the corner and am miserable, although my eyes are darting around the room looking for this angel that I had previously met. She showed up at the resturaunt ordered a mini pizza and sat at a table outside of the room everyone else was in. Jay went and got her and brought her in and she sat at the same table as me, my sister was between us but we still managed to actually talk a little. Well, despite the fact I was on my death bed I still enjoyed her company. So after that I was talking to my sister and asked if she could get me Sharlene's number or at least pass mine on to her so that I could explain that I was pretty sick and apologize if I didn't seem very sociable. So after getting her number I tried to call and got voicemail, so I left a message. She didn't call me back so I called again and left another voicemail, then she left me a message and I left her another one, then FINALLY, we connected. After a dinner date at Taco Del Mar, we talked all the time, hours and hours and hours at night. One night we talked so long that we drained the batteries on three phones, we were up until about 3:30am I think. Actually we did that quite frequently, the one thing she neglected to tell me and I didn't stop long enough to figure it out was that she had to get up at like 4:30 in the morning to get ready and go to work. ;-)

We met Oct (I think) 2005 were engaged in Oct of 2006 and married Nov of the same year. I'm the luckiest man in the world.

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