The Beginning: Rennee’s Side of the Story

I had just graduated from high school and got back from a youth choir trip in the summer of 1996.  I just moved up to the college/career sunday school class at the church I had been a member of my whole life.  I was sitting in the class when this blond guy walked in.  I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to him… he wasn’t my type.  He talked to the teacher for a few minutes, I guess they had met in the automotive department of Walmart the evening before… guy stuff.

He came and sat next to me, and honestly, I could care less.  I had the perfect man I was looking for firmly held in my imagination and this guy didn’t fit the bill one bit.  He was short, not tall; pale, not dark; and blond, not brown hair.  Exactly opposite of what I was looking for in my perfect man… or so I thought.  I had been to Salt Lake City a few days before where I went with a friend and my brother TJ where I got a fake tattoo.

I never really gave him another thought until he began to hang around more and more.  He would offer to pay for my movie tickets when the youth group would go out and offer to buy me food when we would go to the restaurant.  Then he began to ask me to go to the movies… by ourselves.  I thought about it for a while and in the end I decided that if a guy wanted to treat me to movies and food, I’d let him.

So we went out a few times.  And I made it abundantly clear that I only liked him as a friend… over, and over again.  Did I mention over, and over again?

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Bobby and Rennee met on June 19, 1996, had their first date on September 7, 1996, and they married on December 13, 1997. Their first daughter was born on February 17, 1999, second daughter born December 10, 2001, and their last two daughters born September 8, 2006.

Rennee is an RN/BSN who works on mom/baby at one of our local hospitals. Bobby is the Church Planting Administrator at NorthWood Church. Both love their jobs immensely, but love their girls and each other much more so. It's Bobby's goal to have a garage full of toys and it is Rennee's goal not to kill Bobby because of those toys.

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