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Hello and Welcome!
Get to know us!
#HodoEverAfter
Get to know us!
#HodoEverAfter
Get to know us!
#HodoEverAfter
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Ed and Jenn met at a a friend's house party in August of 2012, shortly after he came back from his last contract job overseas. She was seeing someone else at the time, and he honored the Bro Code. Over time, their friendship grew. Even still, Ed and Jenn were very comfortable together from Day 1. It became an inside joke of the group how they always ended up sitting beside each other by the end of the night at any gathering, each time occurring earlier and earlier throughout the night.
Spring of 2014, Ed and Jenn were both invited out to a gathering at Cartoon's Oyster Bar. Once Jenn got there, Ed pulled up a chair beside him for her. A couple people made sly comments to Jenn about how they noticed how quickly they ended up beside each other that night. By the end of the night, Jenn mustered up the courage to give Ed her number. Before that, Ed had been clueless that she was interested in him. He still viewed her as completely off limits due to her being his friend's ex. Over the next few days, his views changed.
Three days after Jenn gave him her number, Ed called to ask her out. (An actual phone call--not a text! And a true date--not a "let's hang out" kind of get-together!) That Friday, May 2, 2014, they went to the Sunset Drive-In Theater in Aurora, MO, for their first date--a double feature of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Heaven is for Real. This is a tradition they (try to) repeat at least once each year. She was so nervous, she only got M&M's and a bottle of water for dinner between showings (and hardly touched them) as opposed to his full chicken strip and fry basket. That being said, he was nervous enough to drop his phone outside the truck and not realize it until they were almost all the way back to Springfield. Jenn offered to go back to the theater with Ed that night to try to retrieve it (and thereby extend the date further), but he missed the subtle hints (as per usual), and insisted that he would just go back for it the next day. (Fun tidbit: When he got there, he was just in time to narrowly save it from the lawn mower.)
As they say in stories, the rest was history. Ed and Jenn both knew fairly early in their relationship that they were in it for keeps. Over the years, their bond has continued to grow and they expect it to continue doing so for the rest of their days.