Happy Anniversary!

4 1/2 years ago I met Bryan in a student ward...

I was kind of off of men at the time so I wasn't too interested in dating.  But when Bryan asked me out I knew how much fun he was and thought at least it would be a fun date.  We had a great time but someone close to me liked him so I  backed off.  He didn't ask me out for another month or so but I saw him at church stuff all of the time.  

He later asked me to go to the rodeo and we had a blast!  On the way home we noticed some teenage girls car died in the middle of a intersection and no one was helping them.  Bryan hurried and pulled over to help them and I sat impressed in the car.  We started doing a lot together after that.  On my birthday while I was at school he filled my bedroom with 700 balloons that he had his family and friends help him fill up.  There was also a dozen red roses.  I was hooked.  He was just what I had wanted.  I never knew someone who cared about being with me so much.  

(Bryan dumped leaves on me, if you are wondering why they are in my hair)

Two months later we were engaged and two months after that we got married.  
This is a picture of the day we got engaged.  My  parents had just moved from our home in Idaho but the house hadn't sold yet.  We drove to Boise there and back in one day to visit my parents who had driven down to work on stuff on the house for the weekend and he proposed to me in the living room of the house where I grew up.  My parents were there in the room with us.  They felt really disconnected from us because they lived 10  hours away in Washington so this was Bryan's way to include them.  They  loved it.  So sweet of him. 

I never wanted to get married in the winter.  It was too cold and all of the flowers around the temple were going to be dead but I knew I wanted to marry him and I didn't want to wait 6 months just for flowers. I thought the snow would be pretty anyway... but there wasn't any.  Just rain!  Can you believe it?  It rained on my December wedding.  

4 years later I am still in love with my best friend.  I don't know anyone who is more fun to be around.  There is NEVER a dull moment with Bryan and those of you who know him well can attest to that.  In the last 4 years we have moved 3 times,  subdivided land for our subdivision, I graduated from college, bought and fixed up a 100 year old home and sold it and build a new one from the ground up.  Oh yeah, and a few months before our third anniversary I had our second child.  It's been crazy but so rewarding.  I love you Bryan!  Happy Anniversary!!!