Today’s Topic: How I Met My Husband!

Tim and his twin sister, Kate, grew up mostly in San Jose, until sometime around 1997 when their family moved to Morgan Hill.

I grew up mainly in the San Mateo area, until relocating with my mom and sister back to San Jose in 1998. We lived just down the street from my grandparent’s house, where my mom grew up. Coincidentally, this same neighborhood is where Tim’s mom grew up. Our families attended Branham High School together. Tim’s grandparents lived across the street from me.

Tim was very into music, and so were his friends. There were many incarnations but eventually the band Know You’re Waking came to be. Tim played the bass.

In February 2003, I attended a show for 4 local bands, and one of them happened to be Know You’re Waking. One of my favorite bands, Olympic Year, were also on the lineup. During their set, I was helping out a friend’s merch table, and sitting right next to me was Tim, the very cute bass player from KYW. He was eliciting emails for the band’s update list. I wanted to talk to him, so I said something along the lines of “I love that song” when there was a break in the music. When this elicited no response, I became slightly embarassed that I was coming off too flirty or something. I decided to try again anyway, and said “Hi, I’m Michelle.” and stuck my hand out for a shake. This adorable boy opened his mouth, closed it, and opened it again. No sound. I immediately turned back around, completely red in the face. I figured he must have a girlfriend and probably didn’t want me to bug him (later I would learn he was exceedingly shy – once we became friends I called him ‘the guppy’). A few minutes later, I heard someone kind of mumble something during a lull in the music, and it was definitely aimed in my direction. I turned around and Tim said “I’m Tim. Did you hear my band play at all?”

The night ended with my email address on KYW’s email list, and a slightly awkward goodbye hug at the door of the venue.

I waited for an email, but didn’t hear anything until a month later, when I ran into Tim at another Olympic Year show. He was standing in front of me, turned around, saw me, and his face broke into the huge smile. He pulled me in for a hug and I just about died, I was so excited. The next day I received an email from him, and from there the emails flew back and forth until one day, I had a problem with my computer. Tim just happened to be a computer whiz, so I asked if he would help. The next day he was at my house, and though I’d ended up fixing my computer myself, he stayed for several hours. We became very close friends and talked everyday over IM, and hung out twice a week, every week. To eachother, it was always “We’re just friends!” But secretly, we had humongous crushes on each other.

In May of that year, we finally admitted that we wanted more, and we had our first date. We went to Erik’s Deli Cafe for some sandwiches and then to GolfLand. Typical San Jose date.

Tim and I were basically inseparable for the rest of the year, and by December of 2003, we were engaged.

July 2003

September 2004

We were married May 21, 2005

XOXOXOXOXO