Our Love Story Q & A

Our Love Story: Q & A
I saw this l quiz on From Mrs. to Mama and thought it looked like fun! Most of the people that read this blog probably know how we met, but hey, what the heck!

1. How long have you and your significant other been together?

We've known each other since our Sophomore year at UCSB so that would make it 2004.

2. How did you meet? {What’s your “love” story?}

It all started with a footlong.... That's the joke my friends created at least. I needed a job in college and walked into a Quiznos that said they were hiring despite the fact I thought I was "too good" to work there and got hired on the spot... too quick for me to change my mind I guess. A couple days into my training I was told I was going to be trained by Abe and my first impression was that he was a little rude. He didn't say much to me at all and he was supposed to start making the sandwich, pass it down to me and tell me the name of it so I could finish. He kept forgetting to tell me what the sandwich was and the line just started piling up. I always tease him about this because he is the nicest guy in the world. Apparently he was just nervous around me ;) Long story short, we were just friends, I went to Spain for a semester, came back to Quiznos and something was different between us so we decided to start dating and here we are 8 years later!

3. If married, how long have you been married?

Married 3 years, 3 months and 23 days but who's counting?!

4. If you are married, where did you get married? Big or small wedding?

We got married at a park called Heather Farms in the Botanical Gardens. It was a gorgeous fall day and it was all we could have hoped for in our big day.

5. Do you have any nick-names that you call one another? Do share!

Oh gosh, hopefully none of his friends at work read this but we call each other poody. I do have to say it's one of the only annoying mushy couple things we do.

6. Name 3 things you love most about your honey.

I seriously hit the jackpot with this one (that's not one of my 3 things but I had to say it.)

He is the most kind hearted person I've ever met. We have never once had a real fight, only disagreements here and there. I've heard from his family that when he was a kid he had a bit of a temper but I have never once seen it.

He is the most amazing father. Most girls when dating a guy will try to think about what kind of dad he might be. I knew immediately he would be great. I have always believed that parenting responsibilities and household responsibilities should be pretty equal and he has never made me feel like all of that should fall on me because I work from home. As we speak he's coloring a Dora picture with Farrah. I just love him

He has an inhuman amount of patience. I guess you would have to if you wanted to be an elementary school teacher :) It takes a lot for him to get frustrated and I'm the opposite so he helps balance me and calm me down. He also allowed me to follow my dream of becoming a Sales Director with Mary Kay and never once told me to go get a "real job." He had so much patience with me and was one of the only people who believed in me for a while. I don't know that I could have continued on without his support. He's just the best.

7. Tell us how he proposed?

Our first date wasn't really supposed to be a date. It was supposed to be a hang out night with the 2 of us and 1 other coworker but the coworker couldn't end up coming so it turned into an impromptu date (thanks Karen!). So after we moved back to the bay area, we sent back to Santa Barbara to see my sister and he arranged to surprise me with her and one of our friends. He had her take me to Chili's where we had our first date and he had decorated the bench outside where he had been waiting for me to arrive that first date that had become "our bench" every time we went there. He got down on one knee, and you know the rest of the story.

8. Is he a flowers and teddy bear kind of guy for v-day, or strawberries, champagne, and rose petals?

Neither. Not that he's not romantic, but we don't really get into all the Valentine's day kind of stuff. That and we have a toddler now so you know... we're kind of busy with that. When we can, we'll go out to dinner or he'll make me dinner. He's a great cook so I'll take that any day over a teddybear.

9. Are you a sunset dinner on the beach kind of girl, or pop a movie in and relax on the couch?

Anyone that knows me knows that I work hard, but when I'm done, I veg. I love me some trashy TV or a good movie. Pretty much from when we first started dating, I would hang out in sweats and a big shirt and watch Food Network or HGTV. No bait and switch here.... that's who I am and have always been. Luckily for me, he's fine with it (or so he says :) I definitely like a nice sunset dinner but how often do we really have the chance to do that?

10. Tell us one thing you’d like to do with your significant other one day. If you could do anything? Go anywhere?

Gosh where do I begin. I love traveling. So I would love to take a cruise, go to the Caribbean, Fiji, all places tropical. We traveled for a while after college so we made the rounds around Europe so I would like to get back there eventually but there are other places we haven't been that I'd like to go.

11. Tell us what you plan on doing on this Valentine’s Day.

Don't think we have much of a plan. I work that night so we'll probably celebrate another night or maybe have a Vday lunch or something.

12. Are you asking for anything this Valentine’s day?

Nope... a card would be nice, but we're in saving mode. I have everything I could possibly want.

13. Give us one piece of advice of keeping a relationship strong and full of love.

Trust each other. And I don't mean being faithful... that's a given. But really trust each other with each decision the other person makes. One of the things I love about Abe is he never questions decisions I make. I never question his either. I know and he knows that any decision we make has our family's best interest at heart. Listen more than you talk. Put them above everyone else... everyone. Be each other's biggest cheerleaders. After all, what is a spouse for if not to be your biggest fan? When I was engaged someone asked me why I wanted to get married so young. (I got engaged at 22 and married at 24.) The best way I knew how to explain it was, when I think about the rest of my life, even if I live to be 100, it makes me sad to think that's all the time I have with him. And I can still say, after 8 years together I still feel the same way. Even in the middle of a disagreement, I would say the same thing.

14. Show us a picture of what love means to you