our year in a nut shell

Looking back over the past year so many things have changed. I would never thought in a million years that this year at twenty years old I would be married and pregnant already. Its so amazing to me how things happened and how obviously there is such a greater plan then all of us realize.
Let me just give you a little history on Chris' and my past year together.

As a college student I worked many odd jobs, one of them started at the University Mall June of 2010. I sat at a kiosk selling odds and ends as the seasons changed. There's not much I could do for entertainment around there so I made friends with fellow kiosk mates and we would people watch. The biggest weirdos come to the mall.
One of our favorite to drool over was this cocky, but friendly UPS guy (Chris). Something about those brown shorts and long socks really got all the ladies goin. I myself would glance occasionally but didn't really want to feed into his ego. I'm telling you, Chris did not walk up and down the mall hallways, he would strut.
Over time Chris and I started heckling each other about our jobs. I would catch him dropping packages or sitting down taking breaks and make fun of him for it, even though my whole job consisted of sitting in a chair and eating. Slowly little ole me started getting a crush on the UPS guy. (I did not know his name at this point)
Our little secret flirting affair lasted a month or two before I wanted to do something about it. So I started fishing around a little bit for some information. My primary resource came from one of the girls that worked at my booth, Shae, She had worked around that kiosk in the mall for almost five years so I figured she probably knew the most about him.
I found out his name was Chris, he wasn't married, had never been married, and that he was a mall player. He loved the ladies at the mall. All that was just great with me, It wasn't like I was looking for anything serious either. The only question that was up in the air was how old he was. I got different answers from everyone I asked. The average was around 28. I wanted to know for sure so I made Shae ask him, his response was 30.
Being 19 at the time my first initial reaction was, "30? huh.... I could probably do that, at least I could get a free meal out of it."
So Shae kind of set it up. She told Chris there was a girl who was interested in him and that he should leave his number. So he did, on a UPS package delivery slip (which I still have in my wallet to this day). I waited a couple days before I text him. He wasn't even sure who exactly he had just given his number to so that was a fun little guessing game for him. But we arranged a date for that following Thursday (Feb 17 2011). Random week night day but hey, again I was just looking for a fun night out.
I met him at his house, He took me to Olive Garden (my fav) and then back to his house to watch a movie he had just bought. That was all fine and dandy, other then the fact that you could definitely tell he was a bachelor by his lack of any furniture. We laid on the floor leaning against a single man love sac. I'm a cuddly person so obviously we did. As the ending credits rolled I sat and asked him all kinds of questions to try to know a little more about him. Which was like pulling teeth, who knew he was such a private guy. And I tried really really really hard not to kiss him, but he was just too darn charming! (ya ya judge me on kissing him the first date) Over all I thought the date went pretty well, even though I was nervous going into it.
The only thing I was worried about still is that he had no idea how old I really was. And at that point I knew he was 30. We kept texting and hanging out for two weeks before I finally had the nerve to say something to him about it. I asked him if he knew how old I was and He said this "well I know your kinda younger, you are probably 23 or 24" hahaha....'great now what' is all I could think. He asked me the same question back and I said well, i did some homework I know your 30. He said well, actually I'm 34... and I replied well I'm actually 19.
He didn't seem too freaked out about it, he just asked me if the age difference bothered me and I said no. Gosh he didn't look or act 32, and I was still just having fun at this point. So we ignored it, other people could not, my mom freaked at first. So did my roommates. But I didn't care. I always would get the question "well whats wrong with him?" Nothing. as far as I could tell.
Things kind of snowballed from there, we would hang out every weekend without fail sometimes 3 or 4 times during the week.It was getting pretty serious, I never knew how serious until he introduced me as his girl friend at the end of April. I was ok with it :).
By the end of May we told each other "I love you" (outside in the rain mind you.) Right before he left for a month to Montana for some National Guard Training thing.
The first week of June I had the chance to meet his Mom and one of his sisters, Jennifer. They were traveling through Utah and stayed at his house. I fell in love with them right away.
The whole month Chris was gone (being a little dumb girl) I started looking at wedding stuff. Even though we hadn't officially talked about getting married. But when Chris got home, he took me ring shopping!...remember this was five months after our first date....
He also took me to a little family reunion at the end of July in Washington for a week to meet his whole family. So scary and so fun!
He proposed to me on the beach at sunset that week. And My mom and I put together a Beautiful wedding in 7 weeks.
We got married October 1, 2011. One of the happiest days of my life.
And then what do you know, we found out we were 6 weeks pregnant at the end of November. Many mixed emotions upon finding out. Obviously it wasn't planned, but i was so excited... Chris not so excited but still happy.
We just found out last month that we are having a handsome baby boy July of 2012. I couldn't be more excited to be a mommy. And I know Chris is so excited to be a daddy, now at least :)
Our crazy lives are just beginning, I can't believe how fast time has flown. I don't think things went too fast or too rushed, everything was just so perfect.
I couldn't ask for a better husband or provider, I know he loves me very much and I can't wait to see what other adventures life brings us.