How We Met

Our 4 year anniversary is coming up next week. Every year we go to visit a different temple, but, this year I'll be in the hospital with a one day old baby. So, unfortunately we'll have to postpone any travel for a while. But I can't complain because the two of us went to New York last year and had a great time.
A while ago our friends Matt and Lisa shared the story of how they met on their blog and invited friends to share their stories also. For our anniversary I decided to share the story of how our wonderful life together began.
It all started the September of 2003. I had only a week left of cosmetology school and had decided to stay in the same apartment complex for another semester before I decided where to go next. As anyone who's lived by BYU knows the beginning of a new semester means one thing... Fresh Meat! And my roommates and I were excited to have some new boys move into the complex. That's when Steve moved in two doors down from us.
The first time I saw him was at church. I thought he was so hot! He was sitting next to a girl (who turned out to be his sister) so I was trying to see if they were holding hands. (He found that hilarious especially because him and his sister look just a like!) I played it cool for the next week or two just trying to catch his eye when I saw him around the complex. Then one Sunday after church I met him in the hall and we were introduced. He then got a ride home with my friends I was riding with and I found out he was from California and that he served a mission in Japan. (I had a thing for bi-lingual men...) He claims he didn't even notice I was in the car. Lucky for him I never learned now to play "hard to get" as my friends would say. I always wore my heart on my sleeve. The next day I went into the office where my roommate conveniently worked and found out what apartment he lived in and got his phone number. I called him and asked him out for that night. Seriously, I don't know how to play hard to get! He said yes even though he wasn't sure who I was and we went to a group FHE activity to a museum, out to ice cream, and than hung out at my apartment. He said that night was like seeing me for the first time and we really hit it off. He even held my hand in the car. I know, I was such a Floosy! (sp?) The next day he came running into my work after class, gave me a huge hug and said, "I thought about you all day!"
I thought to myself, "Who actually says that to someone after the first date?!"
My future husband. A man who he himself never learned how to play "hard to get." We spent everyday together since that first date.
I had a ring on my finger only a month and a half later.
We were married in the Seattle Temple on April 30th 2004 and 4 years later we're still living Happily Ever After.