Rick's Parents

Well Christmas is coming and so are Rick's parents, they went to Rick's brother's house for Thanksgiving. They will get here lat3e3 tomorrow night and leave early Christmas morning, so they will only be here a few days, but it will be a lot of fun. The only thing that I know that we have set to do while they are here is to o to my brother's, Nicholas, house on Christmas Eve for dinner and games. I am really nervous to have them come, my relationship started off on the wrong foot with them, so I am nervous to see how things are going to turn out. Rick assures me however that everything is going to go alright, so I hope that he is right.

Welcome

Rick and I want to welcome you to our blog. We got married this past August.
We met on June 6, 2008 at DT fields at BYU. There was a stake single adult activity, neither one of us was feeling very good that day so we weren't going to go however both of us felt like we needed to go. I noticed that he was talking to someone, so I figured if I went and sat down I could just eat dinner and than go out and play some more. However as soon as I sat down his friend winked at him and walked away. Rick had hurt he collar bone earlier in the year from a snowboarding activity so that is why he wasn't playing the games. Rick started talking to me, (I was wearing black nail polish at the time which I found out later, almost made it so he didn't want to talk to me) he made the comment that his ward was going to do laser tagging the next night, and right as he was saying that some one from his ward was walking by and said no that was last night. So he said well sense I don't have any plans for tomorrow night do you want to maybe go out for dinner and miniature golfing? Obviously I said yes. We went out to dinner at El Azteca's. He ate a Chicken quesadea and I had a taco salad. Then we went to Trafalga in Orem for miniature golfing. I had a lot of fun, Rick seemed really tense the whole time. Once we got back to my door he stood like two feet away and said it was fun we should hang out again sometime, and then left. Personally the way he said it I thought it was so funny. I went inside and just started laughing about the whole night with my roommates, Stephenie and Sarah. On Monday night he called well I was gone doing FHE for my ward, I was the FHE mom. So I called him back and he asked if I wanted to go out the next night, his ward was going to play softball together. I agreed, however the next day the weather was not very good, so we decided that we would just go to my apartment and watch a movie. We watched Space Camp (I love that movie). He was still tense and I really wasn't sure why, however I decided that I would find out how old he was, so I asked he said:
"Well this is the part where you run away screaming"
"Age is just a number it doesn't matter to me" I replied.
"Ok then, I am 31" After he said that he looked a little scared at how I might react.
"Ok like I said age is just a number that is not that big of a deal"
After I said that there was a complete 180 turn, he was so much more relaxed. It was really funny actually. We went for a walk around the block, and he ended up holding my hand on the way back to my apartment.



From then on we were basically always together (except for the three months when I was in Texas). When he proposed to me we went to hike up the Y and he had his phone go off at 11:59 pm so that way he could propose at exactly midnight, and so he would be proposing on two different days. He officially proposed on July 16/17 2008. Once his phone alarm went off he turned it off and said:
"I don't have any questions for him, but I do have one for you, will you marry me?"
I said yes. (Well actually I said, "yay I get my ring." We had already decided that we were going to get married, so I helped give him ideas of what ring to get me.)



I left in September 2008 to go to Texas for a few months,came back and had school which kept me pretty busy, and then we got married right in between my Summer and Fall semester.

I really love being married to Rick. Since we have been married we have had to adjust to a few things and make compromises like all married couples do, but for the most part it has been a pretty easy transition. However I am so grateful to be married to someone who loves me as much as Rick does. I am truly thankful of him and all that he does for me. So that is Rick and my story.

So I will try to keep this blog updated on all of the events in our lives, but it may take me a while to get used to it.