My Marriage Meme

Okay, so i have been very lacking in the area of blogging. i still will read a few new ones every once in a while, but i have decided i need to start blogging again. So, to start off i am going to take up compulsive writers tag to anyone for a marriage meme.

Where did you meet your husband?

Well, i guess i could say we met in elementary school...good ol' westridge. But i didn't actually know him. I still didn't know him in jr high, but i've tried to forget all my memories from dixon. I met him one time in the hallway at Provo High and i remember thinking that he was really cute. The next time i met him was after a couple of years going to school at BYU-Idaho. I was on break for winter semester 2006 and we ended up being in the same singles ward. I remembered him from high school and thought, " i would like to go on a date with him before i have to go back up to school." I met him officially at a ward activity.

What was the first thing you said to your husband?

The ward activity was ending and i saw that he was there so i was determined to talk to him because he was cute and i wanted to go on a date. The first thing i said to him went something like this..."do you want some help taking this stuff to the kitchen?" pretty eloquent. We made some small talk taking some pans to the kitchen and then i didn't talk to him again till a week or so later in church.

Where was your first kiss? First date?

Our first date was going to play tennis. I officially stink at tennis, just ask jarred and he will confirm. Something about the hand-eye coordination just doesn't quite register correctly in my head. He on the other hand is pretty good and used to be on the provo high tennis team. I made a fool of myself, but for some reason he liked me. We even tried to make conversation across the court, i'm sure everyone around us were a little annoyed. Afterwords he took me to jamba juice...this is really what got me hooked on him. We got our jambas and went for a drive just talking. it was a lot of fun.

Our first kiss was in the basement at his parents house after a movie. we were both so nervous, and it wasn't the best kiss in the world, but it is probably one of my favorite kisses because it was my last first kiss.

Did you have a long or short engagement/courtship?

We tried to have our relationship be a long courtship and a short engagement. we did pretty good. We started dating around april/may 2006 and got engaged on my birthday, september 10th then we got married that december on the 29th. So, its sounds like we got our goal, unfortunately we already new we were going to get married in july, so we ended up pretty much having a short 3 month courtship and a long 6 month engagement.

How did the reception go?

I was so happy, our reception went great!!! We got so much help from both our families and ward members! We just had fun visiting with everyone and being nervous about that night! If anything went wrong, we didn't hear about it. I was pretty surprised how unimportant it was to us when we were there...i always imagined that the reception would be a big deal, but it didn't seem to be.

How was the honeymoon?

Well, i have to say it was great! we stayed in provo the first night and then drove down to St. George the next day and stayed there for a few days. Then, we had a second honeymoon not too long ago. We decided to go cheap on our first one, so we went all out on our second one in Hawaii!!! we were with his family, but we still had a great time. someday when i figure out how to post pictures i'll post some from the trip.