4 years ago today...

Here goes my first attempt at blogging. I wish we would have started this a long time ago so everyone could have followed what’s going on in Raegan’s world from the beginning but I guess I will do my best to catch everyone up to speed!

4 YEARS AGO TODAY was the start of my happily ever after.

Let’s rewind 6 years to the fall of 2003 when Ryan and I first met. The first time I ever heard of him was because my roommate freshman year had a “crush” on him! She came back to the dorms one night and was going on and on about him. She pulled up his BSU football profile and asked me what I thought of him! I will never forget it but I told her he looked a little too nerdy for my liking with his glasses and spiky hair! But she really liked him so she gave me his AIM screen name to talk to him for her. HA needless to say we never talked about her! Finally a couple of months later after talking quite a bit on AIM we met in person at the LaFollette Dining Hall. He was there with his team for training tables and a couple of my teammates and I were there for dinner after practice. Icing bags on my knees and all, Ryan and a couple of other guys came over to talk to us. We hung out quite a bit the rest of the school year. His house, knows as 1402, was the party house! Great memories at that house! My sophomore year 2 teammates and I moved into a house behind 1402, known as 1305! We had so much fun being neighbors. My sophomore year was a great year until the spring rolled around. Anytime I needed anything Ryan was always there. In May of 2005 my mom passed away from Cancer. I was at home with my family and I called my roommates back in Muncie to let them know what had happened. Edwina asked me if she could do anything for me, I told her to call Hahaj and let him know. Ryan and I were just friends and I was actually dating someone else at the time but for some unknown reason to me at the time all I needed was Ryan. He was such a great friend to me over the summer, always just a phone call or instant message away. Returning to BSU that fall to start my junior year was hard. Thankfully, I had soccer and great friends to keep my mind on the right track. That fall Ryan and I hung out quite a bit. But I was living the dream and having a great time being single.

On December 3, 2005 Ryan called me early in the afternoon and asked if I would go with him to his friends’ annual cocktail party at Purdue. I was hesitant to go but I called a friend at Purdue to see if she would go to the party too and she said yes, so I told Ryan I would go with him! I had to borrow a dress from a teammate because as everyone knows I did not own a dress, let alone have a dress with me at college! My life changed forever that night. After returning back to BSU after a great weekend at Purdue all I could think about was Hahaj. Christmas break was coming and he was graduating in a couple of weeks and moving to Chicago for a job so I never thought things would get serious between us, but I was wrong, very wrong! And for once I am happy that I was wrong. What can I say though, how could he not fall in love with me?! He’s a lucky guy!

Even though Ryan was working long, hard hours in Chicago and I was playing soccer at BSU he still drove back and forth between Chitown and FUNcie almost EVERY single weekend for 10 months before he finally moved back to Ft. Wayne. Ok, so maybe I’m the lucky one! After I graduated in May I moved to Ft. Wayne, we got our “first baby” Isabelle and then her baby brother Cooper and we got engaged July 22, 2007.

I stuck the ‘ol ball and chain on him on May 30, 2008 in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina and now he is stuck with me forever. HAHAHAHA sucker!