In The Beginning. . .

The past year has been a very exciting one for us, we'd like to recap some of the highlights but before we do that we'll jump back a few more years.

Lane and I met on July 31, 2004 thanks to my cute cousin, Whitney, who got baptized that day. Her family lives in Lane's parents ward and lucky enough for us, Lane decided to go the baptism that day. I noticed Lane quickly (who wouldn't notice a tall, dark and handsome guy like him?) but I was much to shy to say anything so I just admired him from a distance. It wasn't until after he left that my aunt came and told me that he had asked about me. Needless to say I was extremely excited.

The next couple of months passed and one day I got an e-mail from him (he had somehow managed to bribe it out of my aunt). After that we became good friends and schemed ways that we could spend time together without it qualifying as a date (since I was only 15). In January 2005, he left on his mission to Riverside California and I went on with school. We wrote to each other every week and it was a great experience. We were able to get to know each other on a personal and spiritual basis for two years. By the time he got home in January 2007, we both had a pretty good idea of what might happen in the future.

When we first started talking about getting married, the plan was to wait until May of 2008 so that we both could get some school done and not rush into anything. Within a couple of weeks we had moved that up to December, and it only took a few days after that to decide December was too far away. We finally settled on July 31 (exactly 3 years after the day we met) and decided we could make it that far.

Lane proposed on June 2, I said yes, of course, and the rest is history!!