About Us

Well, it wasn't that long ago really...and it still kinda amazes us when we look back and reflect on it. January of 1999 is when it all started.........

Our "first" meeting of sorts was on the chat server called ICQ...yep on the internet. Brandon was browsing through the profiles of people online that night and came across mine. Something sparked his interest and he sent me an e-mail. I didn't think anything more than "at least he is my age", and I e-mailed him back. Our "casual" online conversation that night was pleasant, intelligent, and actually fun. We promised to e-mail each other in the future, and away we went. We spent the next few weeks and then months, e-mailing and chatting online, and getting to know each other. So many times you hear of these stories of people who meet online, supposedly fall in love, and when they finally meet in person, they are not at all what they said they were. Since I did not believe in disguising or falsifying my characteristics for the purpose of pleasing someone I would never meet (so I thought), I was always honest....as was Brandon. He sent me a scanned pic of himself, and eventually I snail-mailed him a pic of me.

About two months of e-mailing turned into a curiosity to at least hear what the other sounded like. Brandon and I set up a time and date for him to call me. He did. That night, we talked for 6 hours (10pm-4am). That six hours felt like only 6 minutes to us since our entire conversation was exciting, and intriguing. Reluctantly we hung up the phone but I had promised to return the phone call the next day. I did. Once again we talked for 6 hours. Once we had spoken on the phone, the internet chatting became few and far between. We preferred to hear each others' voices and we could cover more topics (since our W.P.M speed limited us)! Eventually, we got the phone bills...YIKES!! But it was worth it. We had so much in common and could agree to disagree on things in a mature manner. I began thinking that the phone call money could be spent on a more productive thing....a plane ticket. WAIT?!?! What were we thinking? Meeting in person? We must have been crazy. But somehow, it felt right. I should've been nervous, and probably more cautious than I was, but I felt so comfortable with him. So one day I walked into a travel agent, and walked out with a round-trip ticket to Texas.

The morning of May 15th, 1999 I boarded a plane and headed south to meet someone I had gotten to know online. In a way, the plane ride seemed to not be long enough to let me mentally prepare, but at the same time, seemed to take forever. I don't even think the reality of what was going to take place hit me until the wheels of the plane touched down at DFW. Walking off the plane towards the terminal, I felt a little queasy, but surprisingly at peace with my decision. We recognized each other immediately hugged. That was when the uncomfortable feeling between us ended. It felt as if we were old friends reuniting. The conversation in the Jeep on the way to Brandon's apartment seemed to pick up right where we had left off the night before on the phone. The only difference was that we were inches(centimeters) apart and not miles(kilometers). :-)

The nine days that I spent in Texas was the best nine days of my life. We only strengthened our friendship and began developing stronger, deeper feelings. It wasn't until the night before I had to leave and was crying myself to sleep in his arms that I knew........ The plane ride home was inhumane torture for me. I felt as if I had ripped my own heart out, and left it on the runway for the plane to taxi over on take-off!! No really!! I felt as if I had just lost my best friend. I could definately see a future with him. We talked about it for awhle and I put quite a bit of thought in to it before I decided to move to Texas. I knew that I could finish my education there, and thought there would be no other way to have the best of both worlds. On July 4th, 1999, I moved.

Brandon and I married on September 17th, 1999. Financially we could not afford a wedding at that time, but vowed to do a real one in the future.