i am now a blogger

i am new to the blogging world. i am excited to be joining it though! i have many friends who blog and i love reading about their lives so i hope others will enjoy reading about mine.
a little about christian and me:

• we met the summer before our senior year of high school (2004). young i know! but we became good friends and were inseparable that whole summer. we had a cinematic summer sneaking out every night just to be together and talk. it took christian a few months to even kiss me so don't worry they were innocent "sneak outs". 
• high school graduation rolled around and we still enjoyed being together. we both decided to attend utah state university and lived in the greatest dorm housing at usu, snow hall. we both made new friends and had GREAT roommates that are now our lifelong friends. after the first semester at usu christian put his mission papers in and received his call to serve in the catania, italy, mission for the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints. 
• so christian headed out for italy and i stayed at usu for school. we wrote regularly for about the first year of his misison and then it slowed to be a letter from each of us every two months or so. christian was focused on his work in italy and i was able to work, go to school and date! anyone who knows me knows that i have been boy crazy since birth and that i love boys. i missed christian dearly but there wasn't much sense in sitting around for two years so i lived my life and dated. i always kept christian in mind though, i knew i couldn't get married to anyone else before i could see christian and know what was supposed to be with him. 
• march 2008 rolled around and christian was coming home from his mission. i was so nervous, excited and nervous. i was contemplating serving a mission myself and thought that i had to know if i was going to go on a mission or if i wanted to marry him before he even got home... which was a terrible stress to put on myself. i had input from all of my friends and family telling me that they thought we'd be married within 3 months of him getting home. little did they know it would take us about 8x's longer than that.
• two months after christian got home he went on a european/asian adventure for another two months. while he was in italy with his family i got a phone call from him inviting me to meet up with them in england. i talked to my parents, booked my ticket and left seven days later. that was perhaps the most expensive and spontaneous thing i have ever done. i am so glad i did it! i went to england and spain with christian and his brother, peter. 
• we got home from europe and had an up and down summer with our relationship. both of us were uncertain of what we wanted and what we should do so we took a little break. we soon found that we only wanted to be together and didn't care to go out with anyone else so we got back together and continued to date.
• december 2009, i was graduating from usu and had to decide what i was going to do. christian and i had been talking marriage lightly for about nine months at this point. after many prayers and lots of fasting we had the faith to move forward with the ring shopping just to see how we felt about it. as you can tell we are S.L.O.W. movers. everything felt perfect and we were happy and excited at the thought of being married. 
• february 15th, 2010 we went on a lovely snowshoeing trip up to donut falls and christian proposed!!! it was perfect! i was so happy! that evening we arranged to have both of our families meet us at Setebello for some gelato and then we got to tell them in person (although word spread fast and most already knew why we were calling this little gathering). next to our wedding day this was the happiest day of my life. 
• may 11th, 2010 we were sealed for time and all eternity as husband and wife in the bountiful temple! this was the happiest day of my life! i married the most amazing man and feel so blessed to have him in my life. he certainly is my better half.  we had a lovely reception with all of our friends and family at the oakridge country club. we then headed off for our honeymoon in sun valley, idaho. for those of you who haven't been there must go. it is a quaint ski town. it was perfect!

we have now been married for 9 months. it has been a great adventure and i love being married. i had a fear that i would miss the "single" life before getting married, i was so wrong! married life is so wonderful and i am so lucky to have christian.