Once Upon a Time.....
It all started back in April of 2010. I was going to Starbucks, as I usually do, to get my "usual" that all the Baristas there knew very well how to make by now. I walked in that day though and everything changed. As I was walking in, this blond guy, Sam, who works there looked up at me, over the counter and said "Hey, Nicole." And at that moment, I had this feeling in my heart and this voice in my head saying "That is the man you are going to marry." I'm pretty sure he didn't know that at the time. ;) Well, June 29, 2010, it was a hot summer day, and I was taking my youngest brother, Nicky, to his tennis practice. When I arrived at the tennis courts, Sam was there, and we said hi, and talked a little bit. When it was time for us to go home, I noticed my car had a severe flat tire, and it was starting to get cloudy, because a storm was rolling in. My mom was very pregnant at the time, and my dad was still at work, so I didn't have a way to get home. I sent my little brother home with a neighbor, and Sam came to my rescue to change my flat. In the pouring rain and muddy gravel he got down under my car and got to work. (He didn't know it until much later, but I snapped a picture of him on my phone, while he was changing my tire, and I now have the shirt he wore that day, as a keepsake as well as the nail they pulled out of my tire.) Two days later we had our first date at Lock n Key and we have been together ever since.