Im not sure how many people know our story, so i thought i would share the cliff notes version real quick lest someone think that we just met and started dating in february and are already engaged. No no. We actually met through Jesse's sister, Alicia, who was one of my really good friends up at school at BYU-Idaho, in October of 2007. We had an immediate connection and started talking shortly thereafter. We shared our first kiss the following easter. Actually, Jesse was my first kiss and he will be my last :) Just a little sidenote there. Anyway, he left on his mission in january of 2009 and we wrote that whole time. Im telling you its true what they say, absence makes the heart grow stronger. Those letters kept us going for 2 years. He got home in February of this year and i booked a flight to oregon before he was even home. Ball-sy, i know. haha. But it worked out well for us. I was in Portland for exactly a week, but after 2 days we knew we wanted to get married. We considered ourselves engaged but since there was no ring, we only told family about it. The real engagement came this past weekend when Jesse came out to visit me in California. This time he had the ring. Which he got down on one knee and gave to me in the parking garage of the Sacramento airport...haha. He just couldnt wait! Silly boy. 3 years after our first kiss, we were engaged :)
So, there you have it. Thats our story. Well, i guess thats only the beginning of our story, isn't it? The rest of the story will come in installments in the years to come. And we cant wait to start writing that book of life together! We're in love, we're in love, and we don't care who knows it!
