So I gave Terry the options of "Top 8 Reasons I Love Him," "Top 8 Most Memorable Moments," or "Top 8 Silliest Moments" to choose from for this blog, and he chose The Top 8 Silliest Moments-- can't argue that!!! Terry said the parameters can go outside of marriage and can include any time we have known each other...which is why #8 shall start us off!
8. The Pig Incident
When me and Terry first started actually hanging out, he would come over to my parent's house and we would ride four wheelers and golf carts and play outside in general. Well, one day Terry and I were on the purple golf cart having either an intense discussion or a mild argument, when suddenly Terry decided we'd just drive off. Apparently, he didn't hear the shrill "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" of the reverse signal going off and somehow thought we were in the forward motion and floored the gas pedal to go up the hill on the driveway. You can imagine our surprise when the golf cart surged backward and crashed into Pebbles the Pig's doghouse, knocking the roof off and sending Pebbles running out squealing furiously. She wasn't hurt and we were able to stop the cart quickly. It didn't take long for the back door to open and my parents come out to see what all that noise was....it still makes me laugh envisioning the scene, because it was just as ridiculous trying to explain it then as it is now!
7. Terry's Night Terrors...
This Top 8 contender can be broken down into 3 stories--that of "Dude's Antlers," "The Snake," and "I KNEW IT!"
The story of "Dude's Antlers" occurred at our apartment in Douglasville. One night, I awoke from my slumber to Terry jumping out of bed and saying something to the effect of "Oh no oh no oh no!!" and running into the closet--this particular closet was tiny and only contained the cat's litterbox, so needless to say I was puzzled. I finally was able to ask him what was wrong and he said "Dude's antlers just kept breaking!" ....um, what?? Apparently, he was dreaming that my dad was being attacked by a llama and that he was using deer antlers to fight them off and that they kept breaking...
"The Snake" occurred while we were at my parent's house between not resigning our lease and finding a house. One night, Terry jumped up and freaked out saying "There's something in the room!" "What?!" I asked, unsure if it was an animal, a person, a ghost...in the meantime, Terry was STANDING on the edge of our bed, balancing, and lunged for the light. "IT'S A SNAKE!!" he said as he hit the switch and began to dart all over the room like a mad man. I thought it was possible, we were at my mom's house which was also the home of 3 snakes, so my heart was racing as he looked. He stopped abruptly and said "I was just dreaming," turned the light off and went back to bed. While he snored, I was wide awake!
"I KNEW IT!!" occurred at the house in Dallas. One night, Terry jumped out of bed, yelling "I KNEW IT!" and proceed to run through the house, turning all the lights on. "You knew what??" I asked, running behind him. "Someone's breaking in!" Immediately, I started turning the lights off behind him, and finally he stopped and we heard Sara scratching (if I could make the font smaller I would), but scratching on the door. Once again, he realized this was not so, and went back to bed to go to sleep while I was wide awake!
6. OK, ok, and MINE....
Which is called "Brandi and The Leprechaun/Elf
I was maybe 5 months pregnant when one night I jumped up, RAN down the bed and hopped off at the end saying "Oh no oh no oh no!" Terry jumped up, panicked and asked what was wrong and putting his hands on my stomach because he thought something was wrong with Ryan. "It was a leprechaun!" Or maybe I said elf, but either way I immediately cracked up laughing and Terry did not think it was so funny...but I had been dreaming that a leprechaun or elf had popped up behind my pillow and was smiling at me!
5. The Ghost Hunt
Well, there have been several ghost hunts. There were those at the end of Kite Road in Rico where we'd all get out of the car and my mom would turn the headlights off only for us to run as fast as we could back, then there were those at Ghost Rd. where she would slam on the brakes and scream prompting Terry to yell "What the fuuuuuuuuureak?!"...and there's Noonday Baptist Church's cemetery ghost hunt where a group of us went there. Terry, his little friend Trever and another guy got out of the car while Amanda and I stayed in (yeah, I'm not stupid). Anyway, we got bored and I called Trever's phone out of boredom and when it went to voicemail I left a very dumb message whispering "I'm the dead girl!" and hung up. Amanda and I were sitting there when all of a sudden we saw all 3 flashlights bobbing around and moving very rapidly toward us. On the video it can be heard of Trever listening to his message, cussing and saying they had to go FAST! Terry, the ringleader of the tough talking, was right there running with him :)
4. The Night of the Failed Parties
We got invited to 2 Halloween parties in one night--one was at a college friend's friend's house and the other was at a coworker's house. We went last minute shopping for costumes, and when that failed, I ended up being Barbie Bandit (just wore black, big sunglasses and carried a fake gun), and Terry played the black guy from Walker Texas Ranger (Basically he just wore a cowboy hat lol). We went to the college party first and Terry was having the time of his life playing beer pong and making new friends when the friend that invited us called me to the side and said "One of your probationers is here, like this is his house." Sure enough, the guy that had looked shocked to see me walk in was there and he was the roommate of the guy throwing the party. I got Terry and told him we had to go (I didn't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable in their own home!), and he was all disappointed. "Is it because I spilled the beer??" I told him no, that I would explain in the car and we'd just go to the next party.
The next party, we arrived to 3 couples--all married to cops, where they were playing cards and having a nice grown-up gathering, and in walks me and Terry (who had trouble getting up there stairs from his beer pong). 2 of the couples left very shortly after our arrival, and I'm sure it was because of us lol....but that night we left and realized we had fit in at neither party, so we just went home and had fun ourselves! :)
3. The Proposal
We got engaged on November 20, 2003. Terry was spending the night at my parent's house and I was doing homework upstairs when I heard him come in. After a few minutes, I noticed he still hadn't come upstairs so I went downstairs. He quickly put something in his kangaroo pouch of his hoodie and I tried to reach for it. "It's just peanuts!" Terry said when I demanded to know what he had. We went upstairs so I could finish my project and he turned my chair around and kissed me. He then pulled out the ring and asked me to marry him. I put the ring on and kept saying "Oh my God!" over and over, and finally he asked "Does that mean yes?!" I told him yes, and we went downstairs to show my parents, who were sitting on the bowflex in the dark anxiously awaiting lol...so cute!
2. The First Kiss
Yes, our first kiss definitely makes the Silly Moments list. Terry and I always had chemistry-- ALWAYS, but there was a degree to which we were both scared to act on it. I was just flat out a chicken (relevant later to the story), and Terry was afraid of ruining our friendship. Well one night, Terry begged my mom to come over (it was after 7:30 and already dark because it was November, 2000), and she finally agreed to let him come. We went downstairs to the basement (I don't recall why now....), and me and Terry sat in the golf cart to talk. He said "You know, people are always saying we should go out and stuff, so maybe we should kiss to see if there's anything there." I thought this was both a fantastic idea and a stupid idea--fantastic because I had ALWAYS wanted to kiss him and I had waited for this moment for like, ever, and stupid because I didn't need to kiss him to know how I felt, I already knew! Anyway, I agree, but first I had to spit my gum out. I went outside where our friend Jamie was, put the gum in the trash and he asked me what in the world I was doing....apparently this kiss was premeditated and he was confused by my need to get rid of gum! Anyway, I went back in and declared that I was ready, and he was too....and then we just sat there awkwardly. "Um, I thought you were going to kiss me," I said to him. "Well, YOU should kiss me!" he rebutted....so we proceeded to argue over who should kiss who, and in the midst of this argument I noticed a chicken levitating out of the corner of my eye and it was Jamie messing with us. He then left with the chicken and Terry suggested turning the lights off, as he was about to do it, my dad came downstairs, so Terry flipped the lights on and took off running outside. Dad looked confused when he opened the door, wondering why I was standing there looking puzzled alone in the basement, but went back upstairs lol. FINALLY Terry came back in, and we decided that we'd call Jamie to come in there and then count to 3 to kiss. Looking back, I don't know why it was necessary to call Jamie in, maybe to witness it? But we did exactly that, counted to 3 and had the most amazing kiss ever :) In the midst of all of that, Jamie also swore a random dog tried to attack him because we heard him yell "That's not Katie!"....but you know, that's enough!
1. Whatcha-ma-call-it Wedding Night.....that one's an inside joke ;)
Obviously, there are sooooo many more silly stories, but those are the first ones I could think of :) Who knows what next year's list will entail :)
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