April 2010 will be the greatest month of my life.
Why? Well, for starters I'm a diehard Butler Basketball fan and my beloved Bulldogs will play in their first-ever Final Four tomorrow evening in Indianapolis. I’ve loved the Bulldogs through thick (NCAA appearances and Horizon League Championships) and thin (the Smalligan/Brooks years and watching Ben Grunst amble down the court at the end of blowout wins in 2002).
You’d think nothing can top that, but it just so happens that April 2010 will also be the month I marry the girl of my dreams. I’m my own biggest critic, so I consider the fact that I’ve managed to snag a girl as great as her as the biggest accomplishment of my life.
Laura is incredibly intelligent and talented, beautiful, loves sports – she WANTS to fall asleep to SportsCenter and thinks going to B-Dubs for wings and UFC fights is a treat – and, best of all, she loves me and all my quirks!
Strangely enough, these two monumental events in my life actually tie together, dating back to Butler circa 2002. It was then that a Butler freshman, and dance team member, named Laura was forever connected to yours truly at hallowed ground for any Butler alumna, Hinkle Fieldhouse.
A fellow dance team member recommended my soon-to-be wife introduce herself to me. For that piece of advice, I am forever indebted to Ashley.
After meeting Laura, and finding out she was on the dance team, I was in the front row of the student section for the next home game. Watching her out there on the Hinkle hardwood on a Saturday afternoon, with the sun streaming in from the west windows, I knew I had met a girl I never wanted to let go.
I also met her parents for the very first time at Hinkle, following the March 1, 2003 home game against UW-Milwaukee. Knowing I would meet her parents, I still couldn’t resist joining my fraternity brothers in dressing in “Braveheart” gear for the game. Donning a plaid bed sheet fashioned into a kilt and blue face paint I participated in my first, and only, court storming, after Avery Sheets hit a buzzer-beater to win the game for us. After the scrum, I promptly introduced myself to her parents, kilt, face paint and all.
You can actually see me at the :13 second mark of the video, most of my back is showing in my makeshift kilt ==> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jE2m_n_yHY
So, April 2010, I stand at your precipice with bated breath. I can hardly stand the anticipation of what you have to offer, and know that when you’re over you will be a month I never forget.
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