Love at... Like, 10th Site.

Austin Huston
Sep 6, 2014
4 min read

Before I get into the nonesense of every day life that will totally be exciting and interesting.. Maybe... I want to share Matt & Austin's "story."

You know, the one that everyone asks, "so how did you two get together?"

Sigh. I love this story, but I also have had to tell it too many times. & it's weird. & then I have to mention my house burning down. & how do you mention that without people freaking out or getting uncomfortable? You don't, that's how.

But I'm getting ahead of myself... Let's start at the beginning.

Junior year of HS, I played fastpitch for the EHS team. (I was a pitcher for anyone who was wondering).

My coach, Mike Eckhart was a teacher at Matt's private Christian HS. One day at practice he asked Miriam (my best friend) & myself, knowing we were Christians, if we would be interested in going to prom with this guy who plays Basketball for him & his buddy. He said he wasn't going to let Matt Huston (worship leader, 3 sport athlete, Mr. Hottie <--my words not his) go to prom with a dude. We, being interested in who this superhero of a high schooler was, of course said "why not" & then it began.

We met at one of our games where I was riding the bench. Before you make any assumptions, I was not a usual benchwarmer, I was actually pretty good-ish and was sitting because we were playing a team that we commonly "mercy-ruled." But Mr. Hottie didn't know that, did he? At the end of the game we all met (along with every other girl on the team swooning over this never before seen Tall, dark, & handsome boy waiting to meet Mimi & myself.)

We met & made the plans where Matt told us that it was up to us who we wanted to go with. Miriam & I, neither of us wanting to choose just decided to draw names out of a hat (literally) at midnight at my house one random night. She drew the M & I got the S, which meant she was going with Matt & I with Scott, Matt's best friend and eventually a good friend of mine.

We went, we danced, we freaked out about a little German lady not fixing my dress in time. We had a great time & that was that.

Miriam & Matt kept in touch for a short while & then cut it off. I hadn't heard from him for months, when he called me one day & asked if I wanted to go river rafting with him. I said no that I worked, and assumed that would be the end of it. Then he asked me the next day if I wanted to go play soccer with him & some buddies, which I said maybe, but never went. Then finally he asked if I wanted to go to Panda Express & watch a movie, and finished with saying "You're making me work hard for this, my buddies are laughing at me, don't blow me off again!" That's when I realized he was serious. I don't know why, but he was interested in me.

We went to dinner & then watched a The Three Amigos. By the end of the night I was confused and nervous, but a little excited about where it could go too.

Then the next day as I was on my way to babysit for The Eckharts, I was sitting in line at Starbucks & my mom called to tell me that our house was consumed in flames, it was in the process of burning to the ground. My reaction still is completely a mystery to me, but I said "Okay, do you want me to come home?" She said no. Then I said "Okay, well I'm in line at Starbucks I have to go." Bam. That was it. Maybe I was in shock? But whatever, I still went to babysit & didn't tell E's about the fire. I needed to think for a bit.

I called Mimi & had her come help babysit in case I really needed to go. She came and sat with me for the entire day. I knew this was God's way of saying "YOU DON'T NEED A BOYFRIEND." Or so that's what I thought. So I ended it with Matt and moved on.

Finally, 6 months later, after I had done a LOT of soul searching, I decided to see if Matt wanted to go to Saturday night church with me, there was a pro snow boarder speaking, and for some reason I thought of him. After that night I knew where it was going. The problem was that he was going to college in Virginia, and I didn't want to deal with long distance.

I prayed and prayed that God would change my heart and that we could just be friends. But it was too late, I loved him. And the real problem was that I didn't just love him, I knew he was going to be the man I would marry. I didn't want to have him leave to VA, I didn't want to move to VA, I didn't want to get married before I graduated college. I had a plan and I knew where I was going, and Matt crushed it all; in the way only true love could. <--Okay how cheesy was that?

Anyways, I was right, he went to school for a year, I decided to follow him after God had made it abundantly clear that PLU was not the right school for me, and we got engaged in August 2011 right before we left together to Lynchburg, VA to attend Liberty University together. August 3, 2012 we got married and Miriam and Scott, our dates for his prom in 2009 were our Maid of Honor & Best Man, classic.