Rewind (the lost post)

So I decided I should probably back up just a bit to tell Austin and I's story. We met at age 14 at a Stake Dance in Elko. (He did NOT make a good first impression but luckily I find giving a second chance to cute young men rather easily.) I moved into his school in Wells about 7 months into our Freshmen school year. He not only remembered me and my name but the clothes I had been wearing, and this was after cutting off almost a foot of hair. Kids I had been going to school with in Spring Creek had a hard time recognizing me! We had a lot of classes together (thanks to the tiny school) and became best friends. This was of course during the time I thought guys and girls could be friends.  The below video will prove that theory wrong. I only wish I had seen it then!

Near the beginning of Junior year I moved to Idaho but Austin called me most every Sunday and we would talk for hours. He even came to my high school graduation. We almost went to college together but somehow that just didn't work out. He would drive 6 hours to St. George just to visit me though. (Can you believe, during all this time, I didn't know he liked me?!)
Well soon enough, he left for his mission...

...and after he had been serving for nearly a year, I saw that picture and finally wrote him. We continued to write (a very slow process with him being in Brazil and all) and even after I left on my mission it continued. 

It took a year after his return home for me to join him but it was not time wasted. Through letters we talked through important decisions and deal breakers and by the time I got back to the west coast, he had a ring. He was living in Utah and I in Idaho. He came to see me and hear my homecoming talk. The next weekend was my turn to visit. I also had some other friends to visit and we decided to go as a group to the Provo Temple. Somehow, Katie and I made it in one session and Austin ended up in another. It was disappointing but he and I decided to go again the next day, just the two of us, in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. We went that morning and I decided for certain that I wanted to marry him. We spent the rest of the day with his family and solidified that decision. 

I had left my car at the temple and when he dropped me back off that night, he got out to "get my door". He played the first song we danced to the first night we met and then with voice and hands shaking, he proposed. Nine days after getting home I was engaged. I initially wanted an 11/11/11 wedding (I mean how cool is that?!) but he refused. He would have married me within 2 weeks! So we compromised and settled on 7/29/11. Soon afterwards, I discovered I am a push over. Somehow, we were married on 4/1/11...which I think is more fitting anyway, in the very temple I decided I would definitely marry him.