Kevin and I met through our Church in the summer of 1980. I had recently just moved into town and placed my membership in the same congregation he was attending. I was 16, and he was 19. I was still in high school and he had finished his first year of college and was working. I had not noticed him really. I was more attracted to another young guy my own age. Later I learned this was his buddy! His buddy gave me a message at school one day that Kevin said to tell me hello. I thought that was sort of odd, being I had not really even talked to Kevin yet. Meanwhile he showed up at a party for our homecoming floats. He talked a while to me but I still seemed interested in his buddy more than him. A few weeks later, after several of us were riding around, he and I wound up being the only ones that didn't have to go home. So I invited him out to my house to visit. We stayed up a long time talking and then he asked me out on a date for the next night

The summer of 1982 after I had graduated from High School, I attended a family reunion with Kevin and his family. We were talking about different things while we are at the lake. It was then he simply asked why we couldn't set a date for marriage. He asked what was holding me back. There wasn't anything other than my age. I was only 17, fixing to turn 18 in July. I had several scholarships to school, but I already knew I had what I thought to be great job for a 18 year old. So I accepted, we told all the family and on August 20, 1982 we had a wedding!