Our Story

Winter Semester Freshman Year.

 My friends needed someone to be a sub in a intramural inner-tube water polo game. I am a naturally pasty white, scrawny human....especially in the winter. So there I was in a swimming suit at our University indoor pool area in my full white pasty glory, waiting with a friend for the game to start. 

Que Jordan. He had just finished his game and was walking into the locker room when he felt he should turn around. Across the pool deck he say me "glowing" (I equate this to my pasty white skin). He had a class with the friend I was standing with and decided to use that acquaintance to meet me. 

Full of personality, a charming smile, and bronzed skin he made his entrance into my life. I honestly didn't know what to think of him. We were both Freshman living in the dorm but had never crossed path during the fall. After our short interchange that night at the pool I began seeing him EVERYWHERE. Same parties, in the cafeteria, on campus...everywhere. Rather than taking it as a sign from God...I completely avoided him. I know....what girl in their right mind would do that....but...I did. 

But, boy was he persistent. 

I finally decided...what the heck, I will add him on Facebook. A few minutes later he accepted and messaged. I wont embarrass him by posting what he sent to me but....it was tooooo good! FB messages were exchanged, then phone numbers, then we finally hung out. The first time we hung together....it was instant. We must have been besties in the life before this one because it was as if he had stepped back into an already existing life-long friendship. We could be 100% ourselves, no reservations. We quickly discovered how extremely weird we both were and how well our personalities clicked. 

Before he left for an LDS 2-year mission I went to his house for week to experience Hemet, CA and say our final goodbyes. I was surprised at how hard it was to say goodbye. I think that is when it hit me how much I really did love him. I didn't just like spending time with him because we were instant best friends, I didn't just like him for his looks, I liked him for literally everything, the good and bad. Saying goodbye was hard but we both knew it was for the best. As an LDS missionary you are allowed once a week to communicate with family/friends to help you stay focused. So thus began our relationship through letters as he braved adjusting to a new culture in El Salvador. 

I have hundreds of letters. It helped our relationship grow in new ways. He was always so good about writing me and I quickly became dependent on his almost weekly letters. As his mission was coming to a close I felt something deep within me pushing me to serve a mission as well. I could no longer deny the feelings I was having to go and submitted my papers. I got my call to Lyon, France for an 18 month mission and I left just 3 months before he was to arrive home. It was really hard, REALLY hard. However, I trusted Gods plan for me and left. We continued to write each other through my mission.

3 and a half years later.....we met again. The day after arriving home from France he was at my doorstep in a suit with flowers. Just as before....it was instant. We stepped back into our magical relationship as if we had never spent a second apart.

Three months later we were engaged, three months after that we were married on April 30, 2016 and life has been wonderful ever since.