Our Story...

I just feel incredibly inspired right now to tell you all our story. Do I know how long this post will be, uhh no, but I feel I need to do this for my sweetheart and also to bare testimony that the rose colored glasses I have viewed my life through since I was a little girl watching Cinderella are real and are possible for any who truly search for their own glasses in the right place.

I first met my sweetheart in October of 2005. I had just recently graduated that June and a year previous had ended a year and half relationship with a guy who was great but not great for me. Least bit said, my confidence took a beating, and for anyone who really knows me, confidence in who I am, where I came from, and where I am going had never been an issue until the breakup. I spent my senior year of high school trying to find myself again. Full confidence did not return until I started going to the singles ward after graduation. I had sworn that I would never go to the ward because it was full of people that I thought of at the time as weird. The first time I went, I knew I was home. My ego took a beating as I found that these people were actually my soul mates. Friends that I recognized from a previous life. I lost myself in missionary work, but found my spirit in it as well. Leaving my comfort zone to befriend an investigator became my new comfort zone. I have constantly been craving change and learning experiences ever since.

I saw that blue eyed Brady boy in the investigator class and the rest is history. My spiritual eyes were open and this man was my Best Friend in the previous life and would be my Best Friend for the rest of eternity. First Date-October 31. First second I knew I was going to marry him-1 hour into the first date. First Kiss-Three weeks later. First I Love You-month and 1/2 after the kiss. Proposal-March 13,2006. Eternity-June 17,2006.

Five years later, he is still the one I can hardly bare to be an hour without. The one who makes me pee my pants from laughter over the silliest, smallest things. The one I don't want to fall asleep next to because it postpones a 3 am conversation about nothing and everything but also the one I can't bare to fall asleep without because it means a restless sleep without my comfort blanket. The one who when he winks at me with his little side smile gives me butterflies and takes my breath away. The one and only person ever in existence that I don't want to be a second without. The one who has further enriched my life by blessing me with his precious children and given me treasures that because of covenants we have made to and with the Lord, I never have to live without.

I know that in the eternal perspective my life and my feelings are nothing except the blink of an eye and have the impact of a pin prick but I know that the love I feel for this man is the kind of love that will ripple through the lives of our progeny and they will believe in a pure and eternal love because of mine and my sweetheart's example of such.

So to the world, happiness is real, all deserve it, and all are worthy of it if you open your spiritual eyes, put on those rose colored glasses and recognize your part in the Lord's plan and follow the map He has laid out for you. Your love is infectious and it will echo the eternities if you but let it.

My sweet Brady, I love you. Happy early 5th Anniversary.