Amy and Delane Heath
Amy and I are two of the few liberals
living in a very nice, friendly conservative town in North Carolina best known
for being the home of Andy Griffith and the basis for the fictitious town of
Mayberry. We both grew up in Virginia; Amy in the cities of
Petersburg and Colonial Heights and me hundreds of miles away in a very rural
part of the Blue Ridge foothills called Claudville. We both spent time in
Blacksburg while attending Virginia Tech, although not at the same time because
I am five years older than Amy.
We met not long after Amy ran into her childhood friend Brooke at college. Brooke had moved from a house across the street from Amy in Petersburg Virginia to a house hundreds of miles away and just up the street from my best friend Mike in Stuart Virginia. Mike and Brooke were dating when she and Amy ran into each other, so Brooke arranged for us to meet.
And
so we did on April
5th, 1996, at Mike's apartment in Collinsville, VA. It really, truly was love at first sight,
for both of us. Amy told her mom the
next day that she had found the guy she would marry.
Amy was twenty-two and I twenty-six. So it happened that through a little
fate and luck, Amy and I found each other. And the rest, as they say, is
history. (much of which is documented on this website)
Amy graduated from
Virginia Tech that December and in September the following year, 18 months after our first meeting,
we were engaged. We were married
in Petersburg, VA on March 28th, 1998.
Amy moved
from Blacksburg, VA to Mount Airy, North Carolina and into my tiny little apartment.
We almost immediately began looking for a larger place and in August of 1998 bought
the house that we still live in.
Shortly after that, we convinced our new neighbors to give us
their precious little Jack Russell mix that their boys had named Zorro.
The next spring we decided that Zorro was too lonely while we were at
work, so we adopted Emma and Cassie
from Animal Rescue. Jackson Delane
was next to join the gang on May 3rd, 2000.
Jackson started daycare at 4 months and continued there for the next 18 months.
Then in the spring of 2002, after many failed attempts to get the math
to work, we
made
a leap of faith and Amy started staying home with Jackson during the day. That was
five
years ago and it is an accomplishment that we are very proud of. While not
easy, it was a sacrifice well worth making. Especially after Benjamin Mills
arrived on May 27, 2003 The photo on the left was taken at Mike and
Brooke's wedding in August of '99. Amy was just a few weeks pregnant with
Jackson in this photo.
So here we are in Mayberry, two liberals in a very friendly, very conservative small southern town. We are very lucky and very happy with our lives. No problemas aqui.
This is a picture
from our honeymoon in Costa Rica. It was taken on the
Pacific Coast at Iguanazul. The sunsets were the best time of day during our stay
on the coast. Everyone would pull a chair out to the side of the cliff, open a cold
Pilsen, and just relax till dark. I hope we can go back sometime. The
country was beautiful and the people were fantastic.
click here for info and photos on our little town of Mayberry, NC.
