Nicholas and I had our first date in January 2007. I was living in San Diego, teaching preschool and trying to get through community college and he was home for Christmas break.
He had grown up in San Diego but was studying in Santa Barbara at a private Christian College called Westmont.
When it was time for him to go back to school, 3 and a half hours away, we prayed a lot about what to do with this new relationship that neither of us had been looking for.
[funny story--a few weeks ago my mother-in-law told me that over thanksgiving 2006 Nicholas had told her that he didn't want to be in a relationship he just wanted to be on his own for a while, haha.. that lasted what a month!]
We both felt strongly that there was something bigger than we understood going on, and decided we could give a long distance relationship a shot...
[I'm pretty sure we even said something to the effect of 'we'll take it day by day, and it doesn't work out at least we wont regret not trying']
I had no idea what I was agreeing to.
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photo 1. picnic dinner adventure photo 2. saying goodbye before he flew to England (we fake 'happy' well! there were a lot of tears)
photo 3. spring formal (Alexis, Nicholas' sister was in her freshman year at Westmont, so we got to go with her and her date... who was taking the picture)
Nicholas went to the Middle East for the month of May 2007, and then In September left for Oxford to study abroad for a semester.
Long distance was proving to be really difficult but also a beautiful adventure!
We never could have guessed what God had is store for our future.
Part 2... Thanksgiving in England....
