I AM SO HAPPY I COULD JUST BURST!

For those of you who have been long time followers of my blog,

I have the most exciting news EVER!

Do you remember the post I wrote about how Rob and I met and how we fell in love over a football jersey and how (a few years ago in a fit of "de-cluttering" and "non-sentimentality") I gave that jersey away to DI? And.....then made a plea to anyone with pictures of the jersey or the "Shrine De Rob" to PLEASE get them to me? Do you remember?

Well..........someone answered that call!

I LOVE YOU TRESSA (my room mate)! I could freakin' kiss you right now (and I would if you were not in Utah and I, here, in Washington)!

(If you haven't read the other post.....you had better do it first or #1 this post will make no sense and #2 it's a good read......you don't want to miss out)

(Ahem.....you will also notice, from that first post, that Rob and I were both wrong on the # of his Snow College practice jersey.....we both thought it was #45.........but, the pictures here proves it was #40....ooops.)


So without further ado.........................

THE ORIGINAL
"SHRINE DE ROB"

(This picture was taken from my bed. I got to wake up to this wonderful sight every morning. (No, that is NOT me in the picture. It's my roommates Stephanie and Tressa(the legs))
Wasn't my room cool? I love it........ fly strip, Blink 182 poster, cowboy hat, green blow up chair and the "SHRINE")

Up close and personal to the actual "shrine"

This was the shrine in it's beginning stages. Things had just started between Rob and I but items continued to be added as our courtship progressed. Next to the jersey are tickets from something I attended with my roommates the night Rob and I had our first date. He was always amazed that I could remember the date......of course I did, I had DOCUMENTATION!


"SNOW COLLEGE PRESENTS: "SHRINE DE ROB #40"

(So the pictures aren't fabulous but it's taken with a film camera and scanned and copied.....what do you expect?)

IT MUST BE TRUE LOVE

This picture was taken the morning after our first kiss. I must have been on cloud nine (even though the kiss was.....ahem......not spectacular) because I dressed up as a super hero and paraded around for hours. Note: across the street you can see the large expanse of snowy land......that is the practice field for the football players......I told you I had a good view!

TRUE BADGER NIGHT

This T-shirt was added to the shrine a few months later. It's from "True Badger Night." Rob and I got it for standing underneath the bell tower and kissing for a whole minute (which was super hard to do, if you can imagine) while the clock struck 12:00AM, in front of a whole bunch of other people (who were also "busy"). When we got home, we circled the date and signed it. Rob still wears it (to the gym). Isn't that cute?!? (I did block our names out because there are some real crazies on the internet.)

GOTTA LOVE SPRING BALL

Tressa (left), Me (middle) and Stephanie (right) (roommates) watching spring practice. Oh, I loved watching Rob run around in those AWESOME football pants!

SUMO WRESTLING

Just a random picture from that year. We stuffed ourselves inside those blow up chairs and sumo wrestled on the driveway. Man......I miss college!

SEE DAD, I'M NOT THE ONLY UN-LADYLIKE GIRL WHO CAN PUT HER FIST IN HER MOUTH

Tressa can too. My mom thought it was pretty cool. My dad......well, he thought it was pretty un-ladylike. Especially when my mom tried to get me to do it for one of my boyfriends. Let's just say that Rob didn't get to see it until after we were married. It was too late for him to back out then.

(If you are wondering if I always dressed like a tomboy in college......the answer is.......yes, most of the time......I wore a lot of t-shirts and warm-up pants (hhhmmm...kind of like NOW). I tried not to set the standards too high and..........Rob still fell in love with me.

The Current "SHRINE DE ROB"

This "Shrine" is currently hanging on the wall of our bedroom. (It's Rob's high school Jersey in which he actually WAS #45.)

In the 8 years that I have known and loved Rob, there have been too many memories and too many significant happenings to "document" on the wall (unless we could tack our children up there.....TEMPTING).

I put this up on the wall to #1 try to score points with him after getting rid of the "real" jersey, #2 fill up the bare walls and #3 to let my hunk of a husband know just how much he means to me (and to remind myself how awesome his "g-booty" looked in those tight football pants).

I wish he would have kept a pair of those.

Yowsers!

So there you have it! I hope you are just as excited as I am!

THANKS TRESS.......YOU ARE THE BEST!