SHOW US YOUR LIFE -- how i met my husband

this friday, kelly at kelly's corner http://www.kellyskornerblog.com
is hosting a fun "show us your life" theme -- how i met my husband.

i love kelly's blog and she has thousands of followers,
so i decided to take part in her fun little friday, "get-to-know-you",
plus, i LOVE a good "how-i-met/wedding" story, don't you?

our first getaway to newport, ri in 1999...taken on the cliff walk

here's mine, in brief, with photos i had scanned and close at hand:

i was destined to meet mr prep. i truly was.

off to ice skate at the frog pond in boston, december 1999

as i prepared to leave chicago and move to take my first real career job as a
newspaper reporter/editor in vermont, a woman i had regularly babysat for hosted my going-away party.

it was at her lake shore drive penthouse, she told me about a friend who knew a woman, who had a son my age in the very town i was moving to...she had called ahead and would arrange for a meeting and tour of the town.

this "boy" was actually on HIS way out of town, moving to the big-city of boston, and had his older brother call me! (can you believe i was dissed before he even met me?!)

i met "the brother" and had a few dinners with him, but things didn't really click.

at a roaring '20s party in vermont, fall 1999

fast-forward two years later, "the boy" knocks on my apartment door.
he was in town and stopped by to see an old college friend
--my roommate! she begged me to go out and meet him for a drink.

we hit it off immediately and before long, we were the only two people left at the bar. then, i asked him if was any relation to the brother (they looked a little bit alike) and he looked at me and said: you're THAT girl from Chicago! and proceeded to tell me how he was the one who i was supposed to meet!

my roommate played match-maker and in four months
i moved to boston, following my heart.

we were engaged on st. patrick's day 2001

this was taken the day of our engagement


and married six months later...

we will be married nine years this september. and he still remembers the dress i had on when we met. "the alligator one" -- um, that would be lacoste, mr prep!

and here we are summer, 2009, with our muffy

how did you meet your significant other?