Our Love Story

I've seen a lot of bloggers linking up on From Mrs To Mama to share their love stories, so I decided to join in!

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

We started dating in December 2006, and we were an official couple by New Year's Day 2007

2. How did you meet? {What's your "love" story?}

We met on Match.com! I had gotten out of a 3.5 year relationship and I was ready to meet someone else. I was a teacher, so there weren't many guys at work and I didn't care for the ones I did work with. I'm not a big bar person, so I knew I wouldn't meet someone that way. My friend Rissa told me to join Match.com, and I figured why not? I signed up for 6 months, but met Jeff pretty fast on there and deactivated my account after about a month.

3. If married, how long have you been married? If not, is this the guy you hope to marry? {do tell}

We will be married 3 years on July 3. I can't believe it's been that long already!

4. If you are married, where did you get married at? Big or small wedding?  If not, where would you like to get married? And will it be big or small?

We got married on LI, where my husband's family lives. The ceremony was at New Life Community Church in Sayville, and the reception was at the Hamlet Wind Watch Golf and Country Club in Hauppague. We had 119 people at our wedding, so it wasn't huge, but it wasn't really small either.

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

I call him Schmeff sometimes. No idea why lol!

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

He's always willing to help someone, he's a wonderful husband and father, he makes me laugh all the time.

7. Tell us how he proposed? Or your ideal proposal?

He proposed on the promenade near the Brooklyn Bridge on July 18, 2008. He went there once with a friend years earlier and thought it was a beautiful place and said he always wanted to propose to his future wife there. We had gone out for pizza at Grimaldi's first, then my MIL, who was with us, went into the ice cream shop to get dessert and Jeff proposed! I was expecting it, but didn't know exactly when it would happen, so it was still a bit of a surprise!

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

Honestly? Neither. He used to get me flowers for V-day, but he doesn't anymore and it's OK. I like flowers, but they die and then I have to clean them up lol. We like to go out for nice dinners and get champagne then.

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

Both sound wonderful, but I am definitely more of a movie on the couch kind of girl.

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

I want to go back to Vegas with him once all of our children are a lot older, and I'd love to visit Hawaii.

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

We're celebrating this Saturday by going to a nice dinner at Capital Grille. My parents are coming to watch Landon for us. On actual Valentine's Day, I have my "100 Reasons I Love You" gift for Jeff along with a couple other surprises. 

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

Nope. We normally don't do gifts aside from dinner. I'm doing a few things this year because I thought of them and want to. If I want something, Jeff typically just tells me to get it, so I'm hard to shop for haha!

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

I think spending quality time together every day is important, as well as communicating. Jeff and I tend to get our down time together in bed before we go to sleep each night. We spend a few minutes talking and catching up. It's nice to have a little time alone while Landon is sleeping.

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

Love created this beautiful little boy that we love more than anything in the world.