Our Story!!

The life and Times of Alida and Tom Kroesbergen.
We were married, August 21, 2004, we both are the oldest children in our families. Tom is the oldest of 7 children, Bob, Katie, Brittney, Lisa, steven, brad. His Parents are Marcia and Tom Sr.
I am the oldest of 3 children, my brother are Aaron and Philip. My parents are Brent and Wilma VanHooft( no longer married).
Our Story begins with us on our day that we met on-line Sept 21, 2003. We met on www.singlesc.com which is a christian singles website. Two months later on November 20, Tom came to Calgary to meet me in person. We hit it off, and toured through the mountians, to Grande Prairie and there, I met his cousins. We spent the last night together hangin out at the safest place in Calgary Timhortons, along with the company of about 25 coppers!! ,We talked the Whole night before he had to go back the Airport, we both cried as we said good bye, and he walked away.
Then Tom flew me out for Christmas a month later. And after 10days actually together in Total, on Dec 24, Tom and I got engaged in front of his parents house in his pick-em- up truck. In the middle of the night. How romantic...hehe... 6 weeks later I moved from Calgary to Ontario. After and 8 month engagement, Tom and I were married 11 months to the day of when we met on a computer screen. We also discovered that we could play the dutch bingo game and discovered that the pastor of my church, married Toms and aunt and uncle 3 years before.
Life when we got married was different, we discovered our own freedom, and had to discover each other as well. It was a challenge, to get things right, and get to know each other in a whole different way. 3 months after our wedding Tom and I found out that we were expecting a baby.
7 weeks in, I miscarried. We were devastated. We began there our journey of recovery and longing to be pregnant again. We discovered what it ment to hurt, and what it ment to keep our marriage alive. It was going to take work, and that it has, but it has paid off, and our love for each other grows as we go through life, and our faith in God grows as well. We hold on to hope that we one day will be parents, but all on Gods time. We are coming into our 3rd anniversary this summer, and we are excited at the path that God may take us down the coming years.