6 year Anniversary!

Wow... I can't believe it's been 6 years, but of course when I look back at the fact that we have 3 kids and have moved 8 times than it all makes sense and I am very grateful for photos we have taken that help us to remember and capture those special moments. 

As many of you can tell by reading my blogs I enjoy writing, I actually plan on going back to college to finish my BA and get some degree in the english field... of course to teach me more about using correct grammar and punctuation which as you can tell I am lacking. But since I enjoy writing I will tell all you new comers to my life in the last 6 years, how it all began... because to me it was a magical time and I will never forget the year 2006. 

In December 2005 I got dumped... I had dated this dude that at the time I thought was you know "the one" but after falling head over hills in love with my husband a couple months later I knew that I was very wrong... to be honest even though i cared about the dude he was all wrong for me... and to say I wasted time dating him would be more accurate than saying I loved him. You see... now that I look back on that time... if I hadn't have dated the wrong guy before Dave I don't think i would have been as open to dating someone like David. Those of you who know Dave know what I mean, and if you don't well you don't need to know. 

The first time me and Dave met, was when he came home to visit family after Thanksgiving and he came to the branch, he saw me before the meeting and told his friend Ryan, that he wanted to meet me. After church I was standing in the hall and I remember seeing a guy in a black leather jacket, and he asked me "What's your name", there was probably more said but to me i look back at him as the creepy guy in the leather jacket (which after we got engaged mysteriously disappeared.) . After that meeting it was a few more months before we actually hooked up. 

In January 2006 my good friend Lecia called me up and we kept tabs on each other but since she was married and I was single it was different. She asked how my boyfriend was and I told her he dumped me and than she offered to set me up. She had offered this before and well, I had denied her, but since I was still kind of depressed at being dumped I said sure why not. She than told me about Dave and said he lived in Utah, but he was from Kennewick and grew up here. She said she would give him my email address. A couple weeks went by and I decided to check my email and low and behold our "You've Got Mail" relationship began. It began as an awkward email from him introducing himself followed by one from me. After that first email i was impressed and so I looked him up in the yearbook, and was not impressed by the long haired, zit faced boy in the picture... I told Lecia I needed an updated picture. She sent me this picture of him and seriously I was gone. He was so hott, I fell in love with his smile and it intrigued me to get to know him better. Well the emails continued and I vented to him about my muddled relationships since I had been dating who's who since being dumped and was annoyed by stupid guys, and he vented to me about weird girls he had dated as well. We caught each other on instant messenger a couple times, and than on Valentines day he got my number and called me. We talked for 3 hours. After that day we were on the phone every day a few times a day. When we weren't working or sleeping we were on the phone as long as our minutes would allow. We would take advantage of the plans of free incoming, and free after a certain time and it worked great. I fell even more in love with him as time went on and even more so after some episodes and mis judgements on my part that he would not tolerate, (not necessary to rehash). Than he told me about is friend Ryan who I also knew who was getting married and said he was coming for the reception and wanted to see me. He flew in on a Wednesday and out on a Saturday... 

 He stayed at his mom's and than step dad's house. We went to the reception, saw some friends, meet each others families but pretty much were glued to each other. Friday night we got in our first argument over the fact that we had both said I love you, but said it so quiet that we didn't think the other had heard and thought that they didn't love us back... we settled that Friday night and made plans for me to visit him in Utah At the beginning of April, a couple weeks later.
 I flew to Utah the beginning of April and stayed with some great girl friends of mine, and spent my week with Dave when he wasn't working, he took a lot of time off while I was there as well. We had decided that I was going to try and transfer with my job or find a new one, so while I was there I investigated. I found out before I left Utah that I could transfer from Claire's to Claire's in the same Ast. Manager position and I would be there by the 1st of April, and living with my girl friends. I tied up loose ends said good bye to my favorite co-workers, packed my car and drove from Kennewick to Orem. I got to Dave's house the night and slept on his couch. He helped me move in the next day. I started work and life continued to flow. A couple weeks later my parents visited the weekend before Memorial Day, and Dave asked my dad's permission. Monday night Memorial Day...

Dave picked me up from work and took me to his house where he played me a song he wrote me on the guitar and proposed... we wanted to go out to dinner to celebrate but since it was after 10 at night not much was available in our budget and we got horrible service at Denny's (ha ha ha) so we opted for tv dinners and sparkling cider from the store and had our own private party to celebrate. After discussing with our families, we set our date for July 22, 2006. 

 We drove to Washington Thursday the 21, helped with what we could, and got married Saturday morning at 9am. When we walked out of the Columbia River Washington temple around 10 am it was 100 something degrees, I wasn't much of a fan of many of my outdoor wedding photos, seeing how my hair was plastered to my head out of sweat, it was awful. We had a beautiful wedding, followed by a luncheon, than a reception. We stayed at a hotel on the Columbia in Richland that night and the next morning went to my parents house to unwrap our loot. We left soon after for our honeymoon to the Oregon Coast. We spent, Sunday, Monday, and left Tuesday. It was quick but we had to be back to Orem by Wednesday and to work.. 

We had a great wedding etc, and started life as a married couple, in Orem. We both worked, there were times I worked 2 jobs to make ends meet. We weren't planning on getting pregnant that first year but in September 2 months after we got married, we couldn't wait to wait, and so 2006 ended in our quiet little apartment in Orem, watching fireworks out our front room window, and 3 months pregnant.
 

It's been 6 wonderful years. Sami was born 2007, Daphne 2009, and Ezra 2012... we have had rough times but i wouldn't trade them for anything... Daves literally been in school for 5 years, but not full time the entire time, and we still have a good year and half left. We consider our selves extremely blessed and are very happy to have each other and our kids. I love Dave more and more every day, and life is dull with out him. He knows how to cheer me up, how to take care of me, and I the same, he is my best friend and my other half... so grateful for him, and the blessing he brings into my life, i would be lost with out him. So grateful that he is so good looking because it helped us make some damn cute kids! And I gotta say I requested he wear the Yoda shirt... it's tighter on his biceps and it usually makes them look huge... not in this shot though.. 

 For our Anniversary Dave planned it... he said we were going to go eat at one of the restaurants in Cheney that we have never heard of, and than go bowling, since bowling is what we did on our first date. We ate yummy ness at El Rodeo in Cheney. An Azteca want to be but in my opinion so much better. I got what I get, Chicken Taquitos and they were amazing compared to Azteca's. As you can tell we enjoyed our chow... 

 They gave us salsa, and cabbage salsa which I have never had it was awesome. 

 And of course Ezra came with us and slept the entire time. After bowling we got ice cream, and were home by 6:30 to get the girls in bed. Yeah we are pretty boring, we did stay up watching "Transformers, Dark Side of the Moon" which annoyed Dave because of the love crap... which of course I like... but this week on a side note we have watching all the Ocean movies... 11, 12 and 13 well going to watch 13... I told Dave that for our 10 year we need to go back to the coast just us, that will be nice.. lets see if it happens. Yeah i know we aren't that exciting.. but most of the time we are but the fun stuff causes debt and money... we also have plans for Disneyland after he gets his degree and job! Sure Why not!