Well yesterday Dan and I celebrated our 5th Anniversary. I still can't believe that we have been married for 5 years now. Both Dan I and I were talking about how it does not feel like that we have been married for that long. So I thought it would be fun to tell you a little about us! :)
The First Time We Met:
I remember the first time I met him was at Joesph City High School and I was walking down the hall and I saw him and his brother, and I said Hi and that was it. We said hi to each other in the hallway for about a year and when I asked him to Sadie's we finally started to hang out with each other. I never really liked him like that, I only liked him as a friend. So a couple months after Saides, prom was coming up and my friends were all asking me if I could go to Prom with Dan. I was relief to tell them that I could not cause my parents would not let me go to the same big dances twice in a row with the same guy. Later I was telling my mom what my friends were asking me and I told her what I said, thinking she would be so proud of me. My mom asked me if I liked Dan more then a friend. I said no I did not and I was relief that we had that rule. :) After I said that she said oh yeah you can go if he asked. I was shocked.......I was so shocked I could not believe what I was hearing. So I told my friend what my mother and how shocked I was and thinking they had no connection with Dan. A couple days later I got something in Spanish and said if I wanted to find out what it said I had to call this person. And I was so excited cause I thought it was somebody else asking me to prom and I played along with this phone tag game and finally the Last person asked me to prom. And I could not recognize who it was and when he said it was Dan, I about died. Don't get me wrong, I liked him as a friend but I did not want to lead him on thinking that I liked him more than that. But I knew I could not say no because it clicked that my friends was asking for him so he knew that I could go with him. So in the end we had a great time at prom. :)
He went on his mission and he wrote to me almost every month for about a year. And I only wrote to him once. After a year he wrote me saying something like this, "I am going to stopped writing to you. I feel like I am writing to thin air". When I read that, I was mad and thought why didn't he just stop writing to me instead of telling me this. At that time I was at home visiting my family for Christmas. I shared this piece of info to my mom about what Dan had said. When I shared this with her she gave me the `guilt trip`, about how I should be a better friend to him and write to him a little bit more. She did a great job making me feel bad cause from then on I wrote to him quite often.
Then he came home and we started dating. So I guess I can thank my Mom for that. :)
How He Proposed to me:
He took me to Joe City for the weekend to visit my family. On Saturday he took me to Flagstaff, Az. We ate my favorite restaurant and while we were eating he said he had to go the bathroom. When he came back we went out to the car and I found a dozen of roses on my seat. I though it was so beautiful. Then we took off and it was in January so it was snowing. In that parking lot there was a hill of snow pushed off to the side and he ran right into it, and looked over at me, "Uh oh we are stuck". First of all I was thinking why would you just run into the snow like that, and I saw he was not even pushing the gas pedal at all. So I said try pushing the gas pedal. So he tried to... secretly pull up the parking brake and then push the gas. But I notice he pulled the brake and I thought oh something is up. So played along. I told him I'll go check outside and see what is up. He said no let me. So he went outside and came around to my door and opened it. And he knelt down in the snow and signed, "Will you marry me?" And I was so nervous and could not think straight and asked can I see the ring? He looked at me puzzled but did it. And I talk to him for a little bit and finally said yes. He says I left him there out in the snow for ten min. :) But just to let you guys know I did not say yes because I loved the ring, I would have said yes instead of asking for the ring first. I was just not thinking straight. So now he teases my that I only married him for the ring. :) He said he was not planing to propose to me like that. We were on our way to the Ice skating rink and he was going to propose to me there. That was the first date we went on together...we went ice skating. I thought that was so sweet and loved how he ended up proposing to me. :)
THE BEST DAY OF OUR LIVES:
Dan and I were Sealed at the Snowflake Temple for all eternity on May 20, 2005.
And here is Dan climbing! :)
