HER SIDE:

It was the summer of 2005. I was 15 years old. I was so young that I haven't even gotten braces yet. My mother was the receptionist at a hair salon - her first job since I was born because she still had to pick up for car pool. I was at the hair salon - hair in foils and eye brows freshly waxed (RED). I was waiting to be rinsed when my match-making-mother ran up to me and said "Coach Mullins' son is here, he is tall and red headed -look alive!" Since I was a super cool 15 year old who wanted to act unbothered and also did not want to run into a cute boy from school that I had never met while I had foils in my hair, I started to "read the newspaper" #intellectual. Turns out Logan, "the football star" was on the cover. He walked out with his freshly trimmed auburn hair and looked at my newspaper and gave me his best line of "Hey, that's me." And the rest unfolded much like a disney channel movie. I clearly got his "AIM" screen name since he didn't have a cell phone and proceeded to spend all my free time waiting for texasfootball09 to log on. Unfortunately, he was one of those kids that played outside for fun so this connection was hard to come by. After several "G2G" and "Hey, what's up/ nm u" messages later I must have locked him in with my shakespearean instant messages and to my teenage delight he invited me to FoOtBaLl BaNqUeT. This of course was the highlight of my adolescent existence. I wore my best dress from Winsor and sealed the deal.

On Valentine's Day he gave me a build-a-bear that said "Happy Valentine's Day Kristen, I Love you." I know I know... but high schoolers move fast. I don't know if we were "in love" or not but we had ourselves convinced. Several years/mums/corsages/Euless wataburger trips/waiting outside the field house nights later it was time to go to college. I was a strong independent woman who had just watched "The Hills" and learned always take the job (in this instance the school) not the boy. So Logan went to Stephen F. Austin on a football scholarship and I went to The University of Oklahoma. I spent most of my time at OU talking to Logan and plotting our next rendezvous. Monthly visits weren't enough so we both left our schools and met in Texas at Texas Tech University. BEST DECISION EVER. Tech was the perfect backdrop for our college years, it was very *us*. We graduated and laid down our roots in Fort Worth. I became a lawyer and he started building houses. After 12 years of dating Logan FINALLY decided it was time to really seal the deal. Next to a fire, under a private firework show, he got down on one knee asked me to marry him. So, here we are! Excited to be surrounded by the people who have been on this rollercoaster with us.

HIS SIDE:

My first memory of Kristen:

I was walking out getting my hair cut. Why I was at a fancy hair salon to get a "#4 on the sides and trim on the top" is a good question. I guess everything happens for a reason. As I walked out into the lobby from getting my hair cut there sat a girl with a lot of tin foil in her hair and she said "did you know that you were in this newspaper article?" She likes to think it happened another way but that's not how it went. For two people that didn't really know each other she sure put it together quick that the kid in full pads and a helmet was the kid standing in front of her. I thought thats was cute, and it got my attention. Well that, and the fact that she was very attractive, tin foil aside. Our quick encounter was brief but memorable. The following week we ran into each other in the hall. This was really when our friendship began. Anyone one who knows Kristen knows she is very intelligent and has a heart of gold with a lot of wit, which makes spending time with her very fun. Our friendship quickly grew to much more for some young high schoolers.

After many cheerleading competitions, chillis lunches (at least 3 times a week), and football games we graduated from GHS. It was time to pick a college, a subject that was often danced around because the thought of being separated was so abnormal for us. In the end Kristen and I went to separate schools. Something that would quickly change. I don't know if it was me or the fact that she was at OU that made her want out so badly, I like to think me. We reunited at the great Texas Tech University. Many great memories and friends were made over those three years. I always knew our relationship was something special, but it was these years of our lives I knew Kristen was the one I wanted to spend the rest of me life with. Now we live in Fort Worth and these are the happiest days of my life. Kristen and I couldn't be more excited to be able to spend our wedding with the friends and family that shared this journey with us along the way.

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