My Jess, My Love

Happy Anniversary Jessica May

By Adam Johnson

July 14^th, 2016

I met her in 2007. I had moved out to Colorado a year and a half prior in order to escape the hustle and bustle of the DC area and find tranquility in the wild beauty of the West. Working from home and not being a fan of the bar scene, I took the internet to find love.

YOU HAD ME AT...

Our first date was to the Longmont Bingo Alley. I wish that I had photos of that amazing night, but I thought it would be creepy to take photos on a first date. You laughed really hard at my stupid jokes. You did not run away when I told the lady selling the bingo cards about how I used to play professionally in Europe. We found out the hard way that 3 Bingo cards is actually 18 games and nearly impossible for newbies like us to keep up with the caller. The date was really fun. It did not feel anything like the typical first date interview process that I had grown accustomed to. It felt like we had known one another for much longer than a few hours.

Three weeks passed before our next date. We took a hike to Diamond Lake. You were funny and playful and really fun to talk to. You were a goofball in front of the camera, throwing snowballs and climbing trees. You did not mind that I wanted to take photos of the snowflakes on your hair. I was smitten and felt out of my league. I felt as though I might not ever get this lucky again, so I wanted to capture every detail.

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10 dates in 10 days

After the date to Diamond Lake, we had 10 dates in 10 days. We were kind of inseparable from there forward. You had a job with an internet company in Denver and we’d telecommute from my living room with brief interruptions for Galaga and Grand Tourismo on the Playstation. You would go from charming and goofy to being drop dead gorgeous in an instant. In those moments I felt you were way out of my league, but the goofiness gave me hope that I just may be able to keep this good thing going.

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gorgeous to goofball

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i think i could spend my life with this one...

We all spend time practicing that sultry look for the camera…our own “Blue Steel”. That is not why people fall in love with us though. I fell head over heals with this one because of her silly playfulness. Pretty women in this town are a dime a dozen. A pretty girl who doesn’t take herself too seriously is where real beauty lies. These are some of my favorite moments. These were the moments where I knew I wanted to spend my life with this person.

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OUR BEST DAYS LIE AHEAD

Life was simple when we first met. It was easy to be silly most of the time. Life is much more complicated now. Bills, mortgages, diapers, the bottomless pile of dirty laundry…and not to mention that tiny human that seems to demand all our time and attention.

I know that we will look back on these days as our best. We’ll forget about the stressful, frustrating moments and we’ll remember the joy and laughter that we experience so often as a family.

There is not a day that goes by that I don’t feel blessed to have found you. That feeling only grows stronger now that we have Milo. So, thank you for clicking my profile 9 years ago. Thank you for saying Yes to the question I popped at the Grand Canyon 5 years ago. Thank you for marrying me 4 years ago today. And thank you for all the amazing memories that we’ve yet to make. I know our best days lie ahead.